The Different Rock Climbing Areas of Croatia

Croatia can effectively be split into the following 5 different rock climbing areas:

1. Paklenica National Park near Zadar. Paklenica offers both single pitch sports routes and long multi-pitch rock climbing routes up to 350m long on the famous face of Anica kuk.
2. Istria region, which includes rock climbing around Pazin, Pula and Rovinj. There are over 500 sports routes here, which are mainly single pitch. Close by there is also the excellent crag at Osp in Slovenia, and further climbing around Trieste in Italy. This makes the whole region very comprehensive and has something for everyone.
3. Kvarner region to the south of Rijeka is the smallest climbing region in Crotia though there are some crags offering multi-pitch routes up to 185m long.
4. Split region which includes rock climbing on Hvar, Brac & Vis islands offers over 400 mainly single pitch sports routes. Also at Omis there are some bolted multi-pitch routes up to 300m long.
5. To the West and North of the capital Zagreb there is a collection of crags mainly offering single pitch sports routes.

Click on the image opposite to view a larger photograph.

All of these photographs (and many more) appear in the 2 guidebooks which cover all the rock climbing in Croatia. Both of these guidebooks are available from our shop.