Bükk National Park is a national park in the Bükk Mountains of Northern Hungary, near Miskolc.
It contains 431.3 km2 (of which 37.74 km2 is under increased protection). Mountainous and forested, Bükk is Hungary’s largest national park and is situated in the northern mountains, between Szilvásvárad and Lillafüred. Bükk’s important geological features include various karst formations within its limestone mountains – particularly caves (once inhabited by pre-historic people), swallow-holes, and ravines. The country’s longest (4,000 metres) and deepest (245 metres) cave, Istvánlápa, is located in the park. Bükk National Park also contains ninety species of nesting birds, some considered endangered.
Mountainous and coated with large tracts of beech and oak woodland, the Bükk National Park is famed for its karst rock formations in the shape of caves (the longest and deepest in the country can be found here), ravines and sinkholes. The park’s caves were inhabited for tens of thousands of years, and Neanderthal tools and bone remains have been found in many.
