Death Curve lookout point

The famous bend is a part of the Sudeten road located between Szklarska Poręba and Świeradów-Zdrój. The unusual name comes from numerous car accidents that have happened here over several decades. The most tragic of them took place in 1945, when several Soviet trucks with soldiers fell into the precipice.

A sharp road curve with a radius of almost 180 degrees was created on the slope of Czarna Góra in the years 1935-1937. Despite its bad reputation, it is a great vantage point on the Karkonosze panorama and the Jeleniogórska Valley, and with a little attention you can even see the Chojnik castle. In the vicinity of the nearby Zbójeckie Rocks, you can also see the old gallery of a seventeenth-century pyrite mine. Beside leads the trail to the Wysoki Kamień (High Stone) peak.