Prírodný park Hřebeny, Nature park in Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic.
Přírodní park Hřebeny is a continuous 184 km² nature park covering most of the wooded Hřebeny ridge in the Central Bohemian Region, in the districts of Praha-západ, Beroun and Příbram. It protects beech and mixed forest with scattered old trees on a characteristic geological base, and includes the deserted anti-aircraft missile base Dobříš between the Jistevník and Vrážky peaks.
The Central Bohemian Regional Council approved the park's creation on 14 September 2009, and the designation took effect on 11 November 2009, fifteen days after publication in the regional legal register. It was declared to protect the wooded ridge's landscape character, its beech and mixed forests with scattered old trees, and its cultural monuments. At 184 km² it is the largest nature park in the region.
The park's name comes from the Hřebeny ridge, and its Czech designation is sometimes written as Brdy-Hřebeny in regional documents. The protected area surrounds but does not include villages such as Černolice, while the whole village of Chouzavá and the upper part of Všenory lie inside it.
The park is continuous and mostly forested, with no through hiking trail marked across it; access is by the roads and forest tracks that cross the ridge. Road II/116 between Mníšek pod Brdy and Řevnice and road II/114 from Dobříš towards Hostomice run across the Hřebeny, and the railway in the Litavka valley between Jince and Lochovice passes through the park. Forest roads of road standard lead to the former Dobříš missile base near Rochoty.
Inside the park lies the former Dobříš anti-aircraft missile base, on the ridge between the Jistevník and Vrážky peaks. Forest roads leading to the Rochoty area were built to road standard, and the base, poultry houses and fishponds at Trnová u Dobříše fall within the park's boundaries.
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