To fully experience the natural beauty of the peak ridge of Učka, take a walk along the Plas educational trail, which starts only ca. 300 metres below the peak of Vojak.

An ancient myth witnessed in landscape

On the eastern slopes of Mount Učka, above the wonderful beach of Mošćenička Draga, there lies a deep, mysterious gorge, whose shade hides a story older than thousand years. It has long been supposed that these slopes of Mount Učka had very special significance for the first Slavic settlers to reach the Kvarner area. Today we know that this area was chosen as the site for their most sacred beliefs, the stage for ancient mythical events on which the cycle of life and natural changes, crucial to human existence, were based.

The Slap nature trail (Slap is the Croatian word for waterfall) runs through the Lovranska draga area, one of the most beautiful and most impressive torrential valleys on the eastern slopes of Mount Učka. Even today it is still being shaped by the force of the watercourse.

The trail leads to a waterfall in a stream that runs through the canyon and flows into the sea at Medveja.

Without question one of the most attractive sites within Učka Nature Park is the canyon of Vela draga. This natural phenomenon, which the forces of nature – earthquakes, wind, sun and water – first began shaping as early as the Tertiary period (140 million years ago), has been protected since 1963 as a natural reserve, and since 1998 as a geomorphological nature monument.