- Paklenica is part of nature park Velebit. It is Velebit’s closeness that allows one to do such sports as mountaineering and “free climbing”.
- That’s the promise of the Paklenica National Park, where a spectacular limestone landscape tumbles down to an equally beautiful coast.
- Paklenica National Park is a national park that stretches over 95 square kilometers of magnificent pine forests, the largest and best preserved in all of.
- [20100417_135916_Stup.jpg] One characteristics of the climbing in Paklenica is those vertical ridges of limestone carved by rainwater.
- Starigrad-Paklenica is situated 40 km north of Zadar, at the foot of the Velibit Mountains, the biggest Croatian mountain massif.
- How to get to Paklenica. The National Park Paklenicastretches on the littoral slope of South Velebit, in the backdrop of Starigrad.
- The air turns hotter and the terrain becomes harsher on the walk down Velika Paklenica, the jagged canyon that cuts squarely through the middle of the park.
- On the south side of the Velebit Mountain range, in an area of 3617 ha along the coast of the Adriatic Sea, is where you can find National Park Paklenica.
- Paklenica National Park is located slightly inland from the coast of North Dalmatia , situated about 47km north (northeast) from Zadar .
- Paklenica is Croatian National park that covers the most attractive parts of southern Velebit, as well as its highest peaks, all located in Lika region.