Podkovák Nature Reserve, protected area in Czech Republic

Podkovák is a nature reserve in Lesná that protects roughly 5.6 hectares of peatbog habitat with waterlogged soil. Located at about 708 meters (2,325 feet) elevation at the source of Lesní potok stream, the reserve contains bog pine forests, carnivorous sundew plants, and other wetland species adapted to acidic, nutrient-poor conditions.

Podkovák was declared a nature reserve in 1973 (register no. 588) and re-declared in 1997. It lies on the southwestern slope of the Podkovák hill in the Kateřinská kotlina basin, about 2.5 km from Lesná in the Tachov District, and since 2005 it has been part of the Český les Protected Landscape Area. The protection targets a raised-bog habitat that was once typical of this part of the Český les.

The reserve lies in the Kateřinská kotlina basin about 2.5 km from Lesná, and a forest track crosses it, linked to a yellow-marked hiking trail from Lesná heading south. The name Podkovák means "horseshoe", after the shape of the hill on whose southwestern slope the bog sits.

A forest service road with a hardened surface crosses the reserve through its middle, and a path links to the yellow-marked hiking trail running south from Lesná. The reserve lies at 705–710 m elevation, about 2.5 km from the village. Stay on the road and marked paths; the bog soil is waterlogged.

The reserve protects Pinus rotundata bog pine, a subspecies of dwarf mountain pine whose range centres on southern and southwestern Bohemia. It grows in bog-pine stands around small peaty pools, where the round-leaved sundew also grows, its reddish sticky hairs catching insects.