Lipska Hora, Summit in České středohoří, Czech Republic

Lipská hora, known in German as Horst or Hora, is a 698-metre trachyte cone in the České středohoří range, southwest of Medvědice and north of Lhota. Its rocky summit area allows a wide view that is only partly limited to the north. The mountain is a body of excavated laccolith made of nepheline-sodalite trachyte, with frost cliffs, cracks, boulder streams and slab scree on its slopes.

The southern half of Lipská hora was protected as a nature reserve in 1951, and on 10 February 1977 the Ministry of Culture of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic declared it a state nature reserve. The reserve covers 22.22 hectares on the slopes and summit of the trachyte hill.

The peak holds a summit register where hikers document their visits, continuing a tradition shared among Czech mountaineers who value recording their mountain experiences. This practice reflects how local climbers connect with the mountain and each other.

The summit is reached from Medvědice or from the settlement of Lhota along the red trail, which follows the Zlatá stezka of the Země hradů. Both routes meet at the foot of the mountain, where the steepest section begins; from Lhota the red marking starts in the village and climbs steeply up the western flank. A summit book is kept at the top.

The reserve protects the pink cushions of Dianthus gratianopolitanus and bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) on the southern half of the slope, alongside Anthericum liliago and Cornus mas. The trachyte body is an exposed laccolith, and frost cliffs, boulder streams and slab scree show on its flanks.