Tag - Okopy Pass

Okopy Pass – a pass at an altitude of 1285 m a.s.l. in the main ridge of the Lučanská Malá Fatra, in its part called Lúčanské Veterné hole. The pass separates the Minčol peak (1364 m a.s.l.) on the western side from the Malý Minčol peak (1330 m a.s.l.) on the eastern side. The northern slopes descend to the Stráňavská Valley and the southern ones to the Javorná Valley.

The pass is covered with meadows and blueberry bushes. The pass offers a view of the Kriváňská Malá Fatra, the Western Tatras, the Choč Mountains and the Great Fatra.

On the pass there is an exhibition of artillery weapons used by the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps, whose units took part here in April 1945 in shelling German positions in the Žilina Basin and liberating Žilina.

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