Jedlová lookout tower

Jedlová in the Lužické Mountains is, with an altitude of 774 m, the highest peak in the Ústí nad Labem region on the right bank of the Elbe. In 1891, the German Mountain Association for Bohemian Switzerland (Gebirgsverein für die Böhmische Schweiz) built an observation tower here. The tower’s observation deck is located at a height of 23 m and is reached by 123 steps, and a wooden pointed extension rises another 6 meters above it. There is a cottage by the observation tower that is open all year round, and was renovated with the observation tower in the early 1990s.

The main European watershed runs over the top of the mountain, draining this area to the south by the Chřibská Kamenice, flowing into Kamenice, then the Elbe to the North Sea, and to the north by the Lužnička, then the Mandava, the Lusatian Nisa and the Oder, flowing into the Baltic Sea.

With good visibility, you can overlook the entire Lusatian Mountains, the ridge of the Jizera Mountains, Ještěd, the nearby Tolštejn Castle, Bezděz, Milešovka, Děčínský Sněžník and the more distant ridge of the Krušné Mountains.