Gondola · Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia
Štart - Skalnaté pleso
Štart - Skalnaté pleso is a gondola near Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia. It climbs 594 m over 1.95 km, from 1,170 m to 1,765 m above sea level. Between its 16 pylons, the cable runs up to about 36 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
14/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Štart - Skalnaté pleso is scarier than 14% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 10 of 10 in Slovakia.
- Highest above the ground: about 36 m, as high as a 12-storey building, 1.32 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 153 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 27°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Štart - Skalnaté pleso is near Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia, at 1,170 m above sea level (49.17934° N, 20.25590° E). From there it runs 1.95 km up to the top station at 1,765 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Operator
- Tatry mountain resorts
- Per cabin
- 15 people
- Ride time
- about 7 min
Nearby lines
- Skalnaté pleso - Lomnický štít cable car · 1.8 km away · rises 722 m
- Tatranská Lomnica - Štart gondola · 1.8 km away · rises 268 m
- Gondola Bachledka gondola · 11.8 km away · rises 255 m
- Kolej linowa Kasprowy Wierch - odcinek II cable car · 20.4 km away · rises 608 m
- Kolej linowa Kasprowy Wierch - odcinek I cable car · 21.3 km away · rises 320 m
- Kolej linowo-terenowa Gubałówka funicular · 25.8 km away · rises 297 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.