The High Tatra mountains, High Tatras or High Tatra (Slovak and Czech: Vysoké Tatry, Polish: Tatry Wysokie, Hungarian: Magas Tátra, German: Hohe Tatra) are a mountain range on the border of Slovakia and Poland. They are a part of the Eastern Tatras mountains.
The High Tatras, with their 24 (or 25) peaks over 2500 m above sea level, are, together with the Southern Carpathians, the only mountain ranges with an Alpine character in the whole 1200 km length of the Carpathian Mountain range.
The area is well known for winter sports, with resorts including Štrbské pleso, Starý Smokovec, and Tatranská Lomnica (all of which were incorporated into the town of Vysoké Tatry created in 1999) in Slovakia, and Zakopane in Poland. The town of Poprad is the 'gateway' to the Slovak Tatra resorts.
