Main Carpathian Trail
49°43′00″N 18°49′00″E / 49.716667°N 18.816667°E
| Main Carpathian Trail | |
|---|---|
Hoverla, the highest point of the trail | |
| Length | 830 |
| Location | Silesian Beskids, Poland |
| Trailheads | Ustroń (in 1939 Komorní Lhotka) Stóg, Verkhovyna or Hnatasia (in 1939) |
| Use | hiking |
The Józef Piłsudski Main Carpathian Trail was a hiking trail, approximately 830 km long, that connected the Silesian Beskids with the Czywczyn Mountains during the interwar period. Marked in red, this path was not only the longest continuous trail in Poland at the time but also in Europe, running along the entire stretch of the Polish Carpathians.
The western fragment of this trail remains today as the Main Beskid Trail, which partially overlaps with the original route and ends in Wołosate, near the Polish-Ukrainian border. The route of the Main Carpathian Trail on the border section running through the Low Beskids and Western Bieszczady is now followed by the Rzeszów–Grybów trail (known as the "Carpathian Trail") and the Slovak East Carpathian Magistrale. In the eastern part, segments of the former main trail coincide with the Ukrainian East Carpathian and Transcarpathian trails.