The triangle of tourist houses: the Királyrét - Nagy-Hideg hill - Kisinóc

Itiner

• From Királyrét we take the P sign in a north-westerly direction, and trot through the Taxi Gap to the Nagy-Hideg hill shelter.
• Descend southwards on the K sign to the Kisinóc tourist hut.
• Walk back along the K signs to the fork in the Kisinóc gorge.
• Turn right on the Z sign to Királyrét.

More about the hike

Királyrét

Királyrét, at the confluence of several streams, is a forest settlement with a long history. The castle hill above the buildings hides Bronze Age battlements, and the area was a hunting ground for the rulers in the Middle Ages. A 18. At the end of the 18th century, the local hydroelectric power and the surrounding chequeore mines in the surrounding area, an iron smelter and a hammer mill were established in the valley. During the dualist period, the first railway in the Börzsön was established here; the settlement became a local transport centre for wood processing and quarrying. At the beginning of the 20th century, a forestry manor house was built (now a hotel and tourist hotel), coinciding with the beginning of tourism. Thereafter, the area gradually lost its industrial character and was increasingly taken over by tourism and recreation. Today, Királyrét offers a wide range of leisure activities and services: éttermek és büfék, különböző jellegű szállások, horgásztó, pihenőhelyek, erdei iskola, tanösvéThere are also a school, a school, a school, a visitor and leisure centre, a driving track and a mini-railway. As the gateway to the central part of the Börzsöny, it is an important tourist hub, starting and finishing point for many hiking trails and an intermediate stop. Before setting off or on the way back, you can visit the Királyréti Hiking Trailthe Lynx House or enjoy a meal at one of the restaurants. You can get to the busy tourist centre of the mountains without a car by minibus or VOLÁN bus from Kismaros. A ride on a small railway in at least one direction is an extra experience, well worth taking.

Up the Taxi Gap

From the bus stop, take the P sign to the north-west along the artificial road through the Vasfazék Valley. Pass the towered complex of the Királyrét Hotel, converted from a former manor house, and cross the concrete bridge over the Bagoly-Bükki stream. At the fence of the Lynx House Forest School and Visitor Centre, run by the Danube-Ipoly National Park, the signposts point to the right. Exit the valley and turn onto a narrow asphalt road, ascending gently. You walk alongside a line of old apple and plum trees, with open ground behind the gnarled trunks. A path branching off to the right invites you to the King's Square Nature Trail, with solar panels collecting light in the small meadow beside it.

You come to a fenced farm, where the hard surfacing is completed; from here you continue on a stone path. We round a stile and enter the lower end of the arrow-straight taxi gully in a closed oak. The next stage climbs up this lane along the power line to the Great Bridges. We begin a monotonous climb under the power line, with the path leading to the left and right of the line. On either side you're surrounded by oak trees, and looking back you can see the lower reaches of the Börzsöny, with the Naszályt and the Cserhát peaks behind. The light stones underfoot tell us about the history of the area. Volcanism has taken place in several stages over millions of years, during which time the mountain range's ancestors were partially submerged by the sea. During this period, the volcanic rocks were submerged. After transport, transgression and deposition, volcanogenic sandstone was subsequently formed from the sediment. This can be observed not only along our route but also in other parts of the Börzsöny.

We touch the hairpin bend of the high-taxi service road, then walk for a while in the forest, parallel to the gorge, following a path. At the overgrown clearing of the Five Minute Rest, return to the gorge, where you can take the 5-minute break that inspired the name of the place before continuing. It is necessary to regain strength: we still have most of the hike ahead of us. To the right, we detour out of the overhead power line's shepherd's crook and start to climb up the side of the High Tax. Until 1979, the signposting continued under the power line, but the section called the Fox Road continues to the InóciThe route was extremely dangerous due to the steep drop of the Inocia mountain, and a tragic accident led to its relocation to its current location. The Fox Road is also linked to the forestry of the past: here, and on other steep slopes, felled timber was transported in the past by man-drawn Romanian sledge. It was a very hard job to drive the heavy, loaded sledges, which were often used to transport wood from the forest to the forest.and then, after unloading, carrying the heavy structures back down the mountainside. The use of this special equipment can be seen in the blue trekking film series "One and a half million steps in Hungary".

On the side of the Magas-Tax

A steep trail leads to the southern slope of the Magas-Tax, where the grassy oak undergrowth is interspersed with mossy boulders. The greyish andesitic rocks, coated with soft green, are the most recent - ca. 13-16 million years ago, when the Börzsöny was a volcanic giant several hundred metres higher than today. Once you reach the north-eastern side of the mountain, the climb eases off and after the strenuous walk you continue along the section known as the Grófi út. The forest also changes, with silver-stem beech trees replacing the oak. To the right, the Owl-Bükk valley deepens, and on the opposite hillside is the yard of the Ilona mine, which was worked in the first half of the 20th century. The long-abandoned quarry was once served by a railway line which transported andesite to Királyrét and then to the Danube.

Under pine trees you cross the stone road to the Nagy-Hideg hill and arrive at the corner of the spacious Taxi-rét. From the edge of the beautiful clearing, framed by a closed forest, you can see theAt the far end of the clearing, you will find the High Taxi tourist chalet, where you can take a rest. A 20. It was used as a hunting lodge in the first half of the century (the 1931 guidebook refers to it as Hideghegyi hunting lodge).It was then used for decades as a lodge and tourist chalet for hikers. Unfortunately, it has been closed for many years and has fallen into disrepair due to lack of maintenance. Hopefully, in the near future, it will be renovated and once again become a haven for hikers. Going around the house from the left, we enter the woods from an open area and cross the wide stone path again.

On the ridge, on a gradually ascending stile, you come into contact with the beautiful pine forest of the Kövecsesand shortly you will be forced to stop by a large stone block, a notable site. According to an anecdote, in the 1970s, a group of hikers descended here from the direction of the Great Bridges. Having had a good lunch at the shelter, they felt the need to take a break here.to smash the fatty food in their bellies with a spoon - to aid digestion. After drinking their cigars, they named the place Chapassuk Rock - an inscription that can be seen on a plaque attached to the adjacent beech tree. Even without a strong drink, the name may encourage you to climb the remaining 100 metres. We continue our ascent through an old beech wood mixed with ash trees, touching a previously abandoned power linethen cross the ski lift pass. After overcoming the last steep slope with thighs, we arrive at the grass-covered Nagy-Hideg hill.

Mount Nagy-Hideg

On the side of the 864-metre-high peak is the multi-storey tourist chalet. There's a restaurant, snack bar and toilets inside - a great place to take a refreshing break. The house is a piece of Hungarian tourist history: construction began in 1936 and was completed in the 1940s. Fortunately, it has been in continuous operation as a tourist chalet since its opening; a reliable place to stay or a temporary residence in any season. The mountain was also one of the centres of domestic skiing (the first ski lift in the country was built here), with several ski runs serving skiers arriving in the snowy season. The house offers a good opportunity to turn a stay into a two-day tour. If you choose to do so, you can climb the Csóványos at a comfortable pace, or wander elsewhere in the area.

You can enjoy the views from the terrace, but you should also walk up to the nearby craggy summit, where the scenery really opens up. The roof, with its treeless grassy roof, offers a great panorama: to the south, you can see the peaks of the High Tax and the Great Inoc, the southern part of the Bösendorfer and the Visegrád Mountains on the other side of the Danube. To the left of the Danube bend and Szentendrei Island, the Naszály appears, to the northeast the Csóvádominates the view, and to the north the ridge between the Raven's Stone and the Castle Hill rises. On clear days, the higher Carpathian ridges (e.g. Sitnya) also show themselves.

On the way to Kisinóc

Take the K sign down from the shelter on the wide service road. Most of the next almost 6 km to the tourist house in Kisinóc is downhill. It sounds tempting after the climbs so far, but there will be plenty of good ones: a total of 530 metres of descent - towards the end you'll realise that you can get tired of descending. We wind our way between trunks of mixed fibre beech with pretty ash, then turn left onto a ridge path. We cross a ski lift pass, then cross the Great Bridges stone road again - this time for the last time. In the Gács hollow, we skirt the edge of the Kammerhof pine forest, then wander along a relaxing level path through a maple forest below the ridge of the Korom and the Nagy-Inóc. On the trunk of a tree, the K● sign points to a periodic spring on the left. This section is called the Luczenbacher road, a reference to the family that determined the development of the area in the past. The Luczenbachers settled in Sobra from the German lowlands in the 18th century and quickly became large landowners. In the Börzsöny area, they ran quarries, construction and timber factories, but also took a share in the river windingThey were also involved in the construction of the river and the railways (including the Börzsöny small railway network). Their family castle can be visited in Szob.

On the right, a large pados-plate detachment of dark grey andesitic lava rock on the hillsideof black and white andesite rock, reminding us of the violent volcanic activity of millions of years ago. A little further along, on the left of the road, another volcanic rock rises: the lookout point of the former Etel resting place, where a bench was built in the 1930s for tired tourists to rest. We reach the top of the Grateful Hill, where a more serious descent begins as we join the Inoc Gorge. The term Inóc is Slovak in origin, meaning "bog", and refers to the peaks of the Great and Little Inóc.

In the Inóci Pass

The long, steep pasture was once a popular ski slope ('excellent ski run' - mentioned in Incicithe 1931 hiking guidebook), but the once superb quality of the path has now been thoroughly tarred by erosion and the wheels of forestry vehicles. As you get further down, the beech zone ends and the forest turns into oak. A stone cross on the left and a memorial plaque on a boulder beside it silence us. In January 1935, a young chemical engineer, Ferenc Barna, who was a member of the Budapest University Tourist Association, suffered a fatal skiing accident here.

In the arrow-straight forest cut, you can see a long way ahead, and between the trees above you glimpse a slice of the distant landscape. The Hegyes-tető is clearly visible, while on the other side of the Danube the Visegrád Hills frame the horizon. In some places, the Visegrád Citadel and the lookout tower of the Great Fortress can be seen. We hike along the mossy trunks of grassy, grove-like oak trees. In the continuous stretches, we avoid stone boulders due to soil erosion: after snowmelt and heavy rains, run-off water etches deeper into the rock surface, fragmenting and transporting its volcanic rock. We reach the gradually forested Kazar gully, from where we can see the volcanic rocky outcrops of the volcanic rock below.Kóspallagi basin below us, and the reddish-red roofs of the village appear. At the end of the gorge, we cut through a young forest of ruderal trees, and at the end of the slope, we reach theAfter the end of the descent, you come to the exit of the valley of Hell through a deep path with a root-lined side. You cross the stream and on the other side of the stream you come to the small Kisinóci gorge.and tourist signposts, where you can take a breather. Pass a grassy football pitch and take the tarmac road past a car park to the Kisinóc tourist chalet. Like its counterpart on the Great Hidden Mountains, this castle-like, stately building is a reminder of a legendary era in Hungarian tourism. It was built in 1929 by the Nature Lovers' Association (later renamed the Inóc Society of Tourists - Their memorial plaque can be seen on the wall of the house) and has been open to hikers ever since. "It has a stylish, fork-type design, 60 beds (plus 40 extra beds), a large veranda restaurant and a separate guard's quarters. Open winter and summer. Hot and cold meals', says the 1931 guidebook. In summer, there is a covered garden next to the building where you can relax. This house is also a good alternative for overnight stays.

Back to Királyrét

From the chalet, take the K sign back to the junction of the Kisinóci gorge, andand after crossing the stones of the Hell Valley stream, continue eastwards on the Z sign. We walk through a young rod forest on a path lined with machinery wheels, then cross a small watercourse and climb up a path above the riverbed. Soon you rejoin the wide dirt road crossing the stream that runs down the side of the Inóci cut. A scramble brings you to the edge of the elongated, lush grassy meadow of the Abraham garden, then a grove of oaks. The path starts to descend along the gully of the Dry Ditch, crossing a small stream in a flattening section.

The sunny, shrubby glade of the King's Gully is a good resting place. The area is waterlogged because it collects rainfall from the surrounding high ground. A 500-metre unmarked detour takes you up to the lookout point on the side of Darabos Hill, which is located in the middle of the meadow.The viewpoint offers a panoramic view of the meadow, the Fekete-hegy - Pap-hegy range opposite and the Naszály. The Pap Hill is notable for the fact that its summit hides the ruins of a Bronze Age and Árpád fortress. These two remains are among the almost 30 fortresses of different ages in the Börzsöny.

Leaving the open area, you cross a ridge and walk through gently sloping terrain in the airy hornbeam oak forest. The converging foliage of the trees forms a canopy overhead, with the sun's rays playfully illuminating the path ahead with bright spots here and there. To the left, the forest deepens into a shaft of the former iron ore mine of Königréti, the so-called "Križreti mine". A mine in the centre of the old mining district of Kovere. The proximity of civilisation is also indicated as we round the fenced-off waterworks site, and then the Kiralyrét, and after the roadblock, we return to the start of our tour.