A glass horseshoe at 1228 metres with Makarska directly beneath it. The view is the easy part: the road takes thirty minutes of hairpins, entry is capped at twenty cars per hour, and the whole park shuts from November. Here is the plan that works.
Checked: 23 August 2026
The Skywalk is two glass horseshoes cantilevered off the edge of the Biokovo massif at 1228 metres. Under your feet: nothing for a very long way, then the Makarska Riviera, then the channel with Brač and Hvar in it. It is the single most photographed thing on this coast and also the one most people get wrong, because the platform is free with the park ticket while everything around it is rationed. Read the road part before the view part.
The road is the actual attraction
The park gate sits about six kilometres east of Makarska, off the coastal road. From there it is thirteen kilometres of narrow two-way mountain road to the Skywalk, roughly thirty minutes if nothing comes the other way. There are stretches where two cars pass slowly and deliberately. It is not dangerous, it is simply not a road you drive while talking.
- Entry is limited to twenty vehicles per full hour. Book the slot, not just the day.
- Tickets are sold online only, through the park's own shop. There is no counter to queue at.
- Season: April to October. From November to March the park is closed to visitors.
- Prices 2026: 15 euro per adult in June to September, 10 euro in April, May and October. Children up to seven are free.
- On the platform: thirty people at a time, ten minutes each. Cycling shoes are not allowed on the glass.
When to book the slot
- 07:00First entry, and the only empty platform
In high summer the gate opens at six, in April and September at seven. The first two slots are the ones where the glass is yours and the air is still clear enough to pick out Hvar behind Brač. It is also the only time the road is genuinely quiet.
- 11:00The hours to avoid
Late morning to mid afternoon is when the coach tours and every rental car arrive at once. The twenty-per-hour cap means you will not sit in a jam, but the platform runs at capacity and the haze over the channel flattens the islands into grey outlines.
- 17:00Late slot, long light, and a deadline
The other good window. From five the wall goes warm and the shadows of the ridges reach out over the sea. Watch the last entry time: nineteen hundred in high summer, eighteen in April and September, seventeen in October. Coming down takes the same thirty minutes and you want to do it in daylight.
What to bring, and what nobody tells you
- A jacket. It is regularly ten degrees colder up here than on the Riva, with wind on top.
- Water and something to eat. There is no shop at the top and the drive back is not short.
- Brakes you trust. Use a low gear on the way down instead of riding the pedal for thirteen kilometres.
- No fear of heights required, but the glass floor is genuinely see-through. Children usually love it and adults usually hesitate.
Where next
- 08:00Down to the town you just looked at
An early slot leaves the whole day free below: the square, the shell museum, the breakwater, and the hidden bay of Nugal that you can pick out from up here as a pale notch in the cliffs.
- 6 kmThe park gate itself
Where the road leaves the coast and starts climbing. Worth knowing before you set off, because the turn is easy to miss and there is nowhere to stop and reconsider on the state road.
- 35 minOmiš, the other way to be above the sea
If the Skywalk gave you a taste for height, the fortress climb above Omiš is the same idea done with your own legs, half an hour north along the coast.
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