Chornohora — Carpathians
1 240 m above sea level Now: −3 °C
Fog below, clear above

One cabin on a mountain meadow, where the road ends and the fog stays below you. Thirty-five minutes on foot from everything.

See the climb
1 240 m above sea level
2 h from Ivano-Frankivsk 48.1291° N
24.5524° E Hearth.jpg Ridge.jpg Night.jpg Scroll ↓
250 → 1 240 m

VERKH, a cabin above the noise

01 / 10 · Statement250 m

We didn’t go far from the city.
We went up, above the  fog.

The last 1.5 km on foot
No signal above the forest line

Two hours from the city, then a forest road, then a path. By the time you reach the door, the noise you brought has nowhere to go.

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Above the noise.
Below the stars.

No street light for 11 km · Bortle class 2From_the_porch.jpg
02 / 10 · Measured530 m

Height has
a number.

Every stage of the way up has its own altitude, and each one takes something off your shoulders. The last one is ours, and it is written on the door.

  1. 250Ivano-Frankivsk
    The city you leave
  2. 530Yaremche
    The train stops here
  3. 780The last village
    The asphalt ends
  4. 1 010The forest road ends
    We meet you with the quad
  5. 1 240mVerkh
    Your door
A path through a spruce forest in fog
The_last_1.5_km.jpg1 010 → 1 240 m
03 / 10 · The cabin780 m

One cabin,
built from four things.

A day inside →
A round black wood stove in a timber A-frame room
01Hearth.jpg

Hearth

A cast-iron stove in the middle of the room. It heats the cabin, the water and the coffee.

A large window looking out at snowy peaks, a lamp beside it
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Window

One wall is glass and faces the ridge. It is the only screen in the house.

A simple bedroom with a wide bed and a mountain window
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Sleep

Two bedrooms under the roof. Wool, linen, blackout shutters, no clocks.

Split beech logs stacked against a wall
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Wood

Two winters of beech stacked by the door. You split the kindling, we split the rest.

04 / 10 · Location1 010 m

Remote,
not lost.

We chose a meadow you can walk to, not one you need a helicopter for. Everything you might need in a hurry is within the hour.

  • Ivano-Frankivsk2h
  • Grocery shop25min
  • Nearest doctor40min
  • The last 1.5 km35min on foot
From the doorCars stay at the forest road. No exceptions.

We carry your bags up by quad. You carry nothing but the view.

A foggy mountain meadow with low shrubs
Meadow_in_fog.jpg1 180 m
05 / 10 · Walks1 100 m

Four walks
from the door.

Maps in the cabin →
A grassy mountain ridge fading into mist

The polonyna ridge

3 h loop · +420 m
Grass, wind and the long view to Hoverla
Rocky peaks with snow above a small hut

The main ridge

7 h · +820 m
Leave before sunrise · back for the sauna
Tall spruce trees in thick fog

Spruce loop

1.5 h · +120 m
Mushrooms in September
A small hut on an alpine meadow below jagged peaks

The shepherds’ huts

2 h · −180 m
Cheese in summer, silence all year
A sea of clouds below a mountain ridge at dawn
06 / 10 · Verkh1 240 m

A day at
Verkh,
measured.

−4°C · 06:40

07 / 10 · Process1 240 m

Five steps,
one door.

From your first message to the first night by the stove. We keep it simple, because the point of this place is not to think about logistics.

  1. 01You ask for datesWe reply within a day
  2. 02We send the routeTrain, bus or car
  3. 03The quad at 1 010 mBags go up, you walk
  4. 04The stove is already litBread, cheese, milk
  5. 05The first nightNo alarm needed
08 / 10 · Voices1 240 m

“On the second morning we stopped checking our phones. Not because there was no signal, but because the window was better.”

Iryna & Taras · February

“I came for the view and stayed for the stove. I have never slept like that in a city.”

Mykola · October
09 / 10 · In numbers1 240 m
A timber cabin glowing at dusk among pines, a fire pit outside
10 / 10 · Book1 240 m · Arrived

Come up for
a slow week.

The whole cabin from a night, up to four guests. See every free night and its price on the calendar.

Next free weekends

No payment until we confirm · 30% deposit · free cancellation 14 days before