Přírodní rezervace Volákův kopec

Nice and quiet place for a walk. On the hill there is a flooded quarry and there is a beautiful view of the surrounding countryside.

Beautiful location without people, just nature. Occurrence of many rare species of fauna and flora.

Beautiful place to rest and good place to camp

Beautiful view of the surroundings, quiet nature. Many species of birds nest here, especially the protected black grouse. I can highly recommend this place and wide surroundings to geocaching fans.

Volák's hill rises above the village of Kameničky. This is a former quarry that is currently flooded. The resulting lake is surrounded by trees and you will find several benches to relax in. More information can be found on the spot at the information board. Among other things, you can see the adjacent villages, hills or the Krejcar pond from Volák's hill. The place is mainly used for relaxation.

Vojtěch Hill, also known as Volák Hill. With an altitude of 673 m, it is one of the highest places in Chrudimská. At the top of the hill is a lake, which was created during local stone mining. We used to swim here in clear water, but that is the past. The place is beautiful with a beautiful view and it is definitely worth stopping here, walking around the lake, sitting on a bench. Wonderful place ?

The Volákův kopec nature reserve has been a special protected area since 21 November 1990, currently covering an area of ​​87.65 ha and with a range of positions from 630 to 685 m above sea level in the cadastral area of ​​the municipality of Kameničky in the Pardubice Region. The nature reserve is administered by the Nature Conservation Authority of the Czech Republic, the PLA Žďárské vrchy Administration, the information board is located above the road II / 343 in the village of Kameničky, along the KČT tourist route leading to the top of Vojtěch Hill (674 m). The subject of protection in the nature reserve is the botanical locality and the occurrence of the black grouse, since 18.3.2016 a part of the nature reserve in the area of ​​7.17 ha and at 640 to 660 m above sea level declared the European significant locality Chotáry. occurrence of Geyer's braid. The name of the nature reserve was derived from the name of the painting by landscape painter Antonín Slavíček (1870–1910), who worked in Kameničky, and he lived with his family in Kameničky. After his death he married Bohumila Slavíčková in August 1910. Masaryk (1880–1915), son of the first president of Czechoslovakia, TG Masaryk. Country In terms of regional georelief of the Czech Republic, the nature reserve is situated in the geomorphological district of Kameničská vrchovina and is part of the geomorphological complex of Železné hory, the whole area of ​​the nature reserve is covered by the Žďárské vrchy Protected Landscape Area and the protected area of ​​natural water accumulation. Dominant in the nature reserve is a cone-shaped elevation with the geographical name of Vojtěch Hill with a trigonometric point of 673.8 meters above sea level. The terrain bollard is located in the summit above the former quarry, now flooded. The hill consists of two-mica rock migmatite to orthogla type metamorphite in the Kutná Hora-Svratka area (Svratka crystalline complex), it belongs to the Bohemian Massif system (crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Paleozoic). In the former quarry, the northern wall is partially exposed, gradually overgrown with plants and seedlings. Southwest below the summit there are claystones, siltstones, quartz sandstones and conglomerates of the hardened sediment type. The geological bedrock east of the summit is formed by narrow strips of a biotite gne of granular, granoblastic, Svratka crystalline complex. Valuable locality with meadows, forest, scattered groups of tree species, is a part of the spring area of ​​the Chrudimka River, water from the peat bogs is drained, is a left tributary of the river in the village of Kameničky. In the top part of the hill near the flooded quarry a pleasant rest place with benches and information board. Top part partly with trees, around Vojtěch hill extensive meadows with islets of peat bogs and spring leaks. Meadows with pastures and scattered groups of tree species, abundantly represented by birches and pines, have dried up in recent years. The meadows are regularly mowed, they are a through field road from the road Kameničky - Chlumětín, the tourist route of the Club of Czech Tourists comes from road II / 343 (Kameničky - Krejcar). The ascent to Vojtěch Hill is unpretentious, suitable also for smaller children, the top part offers a view of the landscape with the villages Kameničky and Jeníkov, the ponds Groš and Krejcar and in particular the view of the wooded zone of the Žďár Hills in the Upper Svratka Highlands. CZ190812