Nová Louka, Hunting lodge in Bedřichov, Czech Republic.

Nová Louka is a hunting lodge situated at 785 meters elevation in the Jizera Mountains surrounded by natural spruce forests. The area features waterlogged peat ecosystems with Blatný Brook running through the protected landscape.

A clearing was created here in 1630 when wood was cut for building Jičín and Liberec, and it was first used for grazing cattle. In 1756 the glassmaker Riedel built a glassworks on the meadow, which closed in 1817 and was demolished twenty years later. The Clam-Gallas family bought the owner's house in 1844 and rebuilt it as a hunting lodge.

The name Šámalova chata honours Přemysl Šámal, chancellor of the Czechoslovak president during the First Republic, who used the lodge between the wars; a memorial stone with his medallion stands at the meadow's edge. He died in 1941 in Berlin's Moabit prison.

The lodge is accessible via marked hiking paths from Bedřichov with the E3 European long-distance trail passing directly by. Visitors should prepare for mountainous terrain and changing weather conditions at this elevation.

On 29 July 1897 the local weather station at Nová Louka recorded 345 mm of rain in a single day, a European precipitation record that still stands. The lodge also gave its name to the adjoining nature reserve, which protects the peat bog east of the meadow.