Photo: Martin Brož · CC BY 3.0
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Sušičko jezero is a seasonal glacial lake in the canyon of the Sušica, in Durmitor National Park. In spring, when the snow melts on the Durmitor massif, the river fills it into an elliptical lake; by midsummer it has usually drained away.
How it formed
The water leaks out through sinkholes in the lake bed, and when it is gone a grassy floor is left behind, which is mown for hay. The name probably comes from suša, drought.
Visit
Swimming
No reliable information
Tips
The lake is about an hour’s drive from Žabljak on the Durmitor ring road, with parking and the Sušica hiker’s hut beside it. It is the starting point of the Sušica canyon trail, which follows the canyon through beech forest past the Skakala waterfall to the Škrčka lakes and is part of the Via Dinarica.
Come in spring or early summer to see the lake full; later in the year you will find a meadow instead.
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Sources & data
- OpenStreetMap: Sušičko jezero (way 441379884), OpenStreetMap contributors
- Wikipedia: Lake Sušica, Wikimedia Foundation
- The ‘mountain eyes’ of Durmitor (2018), Montenegro for Me