Štegvaš viewpoint

The built viewpoint on the Ostros road with Skadar Lake on one side and the Bojana basin, Šas and the sea on the other.

Štegvaš is a built viewpoint on the road towards Ostros, south of Skadar Lake, listed by the Bar tourist office and built by the Ulcinj one. The Bar tourist office lists it with coordinates and free parking and says the whole lake is in view; the Ulcinj tourist office, which built it, describes the view the other way, over the Bojana basin from source to sea, the old town of Šas (Svač), Šas lake and the Anamalsko polje.

What you see

Both boards are describing the same ridge from different sides. To the north, the whole of Skadar Lake (Bar tourist office). To the south, the Bojana basin, the ruins of Šas, Šas lake and the Anamalsko plain (Ulcinj tourist office).

Rolling scrub-covered hills stretching to a hazy plain, with yellow flowers in the foreground — Wooded hills and plain seen from the ridge at ŠtegvašPhoto: ines lukic, CC BY 3.0

How to get there

GPS: 42.0646437, 19.3739803, from the Bar tourist office's listing map, which gives the location as Ostros.
By road: on the road towards Ostros (Ulcinj tourist office).
Parking: free (Bar tourist office). The listing is tagged for cycling and hiking.

OpenStreetMap maps the pass here as "Stegvaši" at 480 m, about 20 m from the Bar point; that altitude is not from an official source.

Facilities

The Ulcinj tourist office built Štegvaš as one of its first two viewpoints, with Valdanos, and fitted it with a solar "smart bench" offering free Wi-Fi, phone charging and its own LED lighting.

A bare rocky peak above brown hills under streaked clouds — A rocky peak on the ridge beside the viewpointPhoto: ines lukic, CC BY 3.0

Which municipality

The Bar tourist office lists the viewpoint; the Ulcinj tourist office built it. The site is most likely on the Bar-Ulcinj boundary, and neither board states which side it falls on.

Nearby

Along the lake's south shore are the Bar tourist office's other lookouts: Livari and Murići, and Godinje further north-west. The Ulcinj board's second built viewpoint overlooks Valdanos bay on the road from Ulcinj.