Seven Ladders Canyon — Attraction in Zona Metropolitană Brașov

Review for mid August 2022: cash payment only! no selling of any beverages / sweeth or anything to eat. Bring your own food supplies and plenty of water! ! no online tickets, no prior reservations. Access is first com first served! beware: some waiting time before entrance is possible mainly during weekends and public holidays (Saturday 13:00 - waiting time was 90+ minutes). Good part is that waiting occurs in a shaded trail (no benches & few spots to rest on the ground) you can rent gear to go on several zip lines descent (mainly 14+ years). Children zip lines are also available: close to the barrier on your left (follow signage) and another location with 4 zip lines at the middle of the hiking trail towards the canyon. The latter cannot be missed as you pass through it.

If you struggled arriving at the tickets booth, I strongly recommend that you DO NOT climb the canyon. Afterwards the 7 Ladders Canyon climb, return towards "civilization" and tickets booth will require you to take an alternate marked path & involve some hill climbing and this will be the most intense part of your journey. A 4 year & 6 year old old have done it several times, just beware on your fit level.

Afterwards the 7 Ladders Canyon climb you require approx 2h of walking before reaching the barrier/car parking!

Staff is friendly, English speaking. Entrance for hiking trail inside the canyon is rather cheap :10 lei / adult (~2€), 5 lei / child. For children 4+ & under 8 years you can rent helmet & climbing harness so you can secure the child to the accompanying adult.! (an additional 5 lei), but you have to request it while purchasing tickets.

Opposed to selling tickets booth there are some benches / tables where you can have a quick meal. There are trash cans.

Be proactive & bring 1/2 garbage bags to gather your waste (including cigarette buds) and not "spoil" the environment as "savages" do! There is a large waste collection container just before the barrier dividing the parking are where you can drop off your wastes collected.

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This place is located 20 km from Brasov. You will have to stop the car as close as possible the barrier that is forbidding you to drive more. The road is terrible for car so please allow patience. So once you left Brasov you go to Timisul de Sus, park the car as close as possible the hiking road and start walking to the canyon. There are 2 ways to reach your destination, one that goes straight to the canyon and the other that is leading you to a secondary attraction "Prapastia Ursilor" (the bears abyss). In both ways you will meet a forest and small water streams. The walking is going to take about 1 hour if you are not in rush, and if you are a fast walker you can do it in about 30 min. You will find on the way 2 cabin and a lot of post for rope sliding which you will have to pay for that. You will reach the destination and you will see a big giant spitted in 2. Your goal is to climb up to the giant by the hole between rocks. No worries, this place has a bit of antropic influences and you can do it by man made stairs as the name of the atraction canionul 7 scari (7 ladder canyon). Be sure that you have with you waterproof clothes because it is a small waterfall that is coming on the same rute that you are hiking and is going to make a wet environment at the beginning of cllimbing. Also very important is that if you are afraid of heights, you have to be very caution because the first ladders are very high to climb, about 10 meters and also they are wet from waterfall, so would be wise for you to take care of your safe. Once you are up it s a beautiful and peaceful place looking like a meadow of heaven. You are inside of a glade you have the trees that are perfectly covering the meadow making you a perfect path. It s going to take you about 20 minutes to go back on another walking rute. The place is awesome and unique and it s worth visiting it. Enjoy...

A great place for an easy hike. In total it took us 3 hours and 30 minutes, from the beginning of the road (where we left the car) and back, with a few short stops on the way. When you get to the final cabana, where there are usually people gathered, you can buy tickets for the 7 Stairs Canyon, 10 lei for children and students and 20 lei for adults. As you imagine, there are 7 stairs to climb without a harness. They are all different sizes, but one is taller than the rest, and this one has a fall protection (like a metal grid). The view and the experience is gorgeous, I cannot explain it in words, you have to see for yourself :) The climb itself (on the 7 stairs is pretty easy and fast (in 10-15 minutes or so) and I saw children starting from 7-8 years old do it. I would personally not recommend this hike for kids younger than 7 years old. When you reach the top of the stairs, you have 3 options.

1. One is to return via a d tour around the canyon which takes at most 30 min
2. To continue the hike to Prapastia Ursilor (Abyss of Bears) which takes about two more hours
3. To continue the hike to Piatra Mare (The Big Rock) which takes about two more hours - it is a hard hike especially in the winter.

Whichever you choose, to get down you can use the Ziplines for 120 lei to the beginning of the road (where your car is) or Ziplines for 70 lei to some part of the hike (you can see more info on the photos I attached). Or there is the option to go with your own two feet to the beginning of the road, like you started.

We choose the option to go with our own two feet from the beginning to the end, choosing option 2) to return via d tour - resulting in 3h and 30 minutes.

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