Mojkovac, the Tara valley town between two national parks

Mojkovac sits in a cracking spot and doesn’t make as much of it as it could. The town lies at 853 metres in the Tara valley, between Bjelasica, Sinjajevina and the Prošćenje mountains, and between two national parks, Biogradska Gora and Durmitor. It has a railway station, a medieval history of silver mining and a stretch of the Tara well known to fly fishers. I’d call it the north’s most underrated base.

From Brskovo’s silver to the battle of 1916

The Mojkovac tourist board traces the area’s story back to the Middle Ages. The mine at Brskovo opened in the 13th century, worked by Saxon miners, and silver coins were struck there. Tradition holds that the name Mojkovac comes from King Uroš I’s words, «my minted coin», although the same source notes other explanations, such as the surname Mojković.

The best-remembered episode came much later. On 6 and 7 January 1916, in the middle of the First World War, the Montenegrin army under Serdar Janko Vukotić defeated a larger Austro-Hungarian force here. There are memorials to the fallen by the bridge over the Tara and at Bojna Njiva. The present municipality was formed in 1955 by merging Polja and Mojkovac.

The Tara, Crna Poda and Lake Zabojsko

The Tara runs through the municipality, and downstream, between Bistrica and Dobrilovina, the Tara Canyon begins. That’s where Crna Poda grows, 20 hectares of black pine with trees of around 400 years, and just below it Đavolje lazi, where the river narrows to 2 or 3 metres. The tourist board also points to Tmajevac, where the Ravnjak joins the Tara and the municipality’s share of Durmitor National Park begins.

Up on Sinjajevina, at 1,477 metres, Lake Zabojsko is 19 metres deep with water clear to 8 metres, according to the same source, reached by a dirt track from the village of Dobrilovina. Sinjajevina, it says, is the largest pasture in the Balkans, with 120,000 hectares of grazing.

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Fishing, paragliding and mountains

For fly fishers, Mojkovac is a destination in its own right. The tourist board describes an 8 km zone on the Tara, from the edge of Biogradska Gora to the town, with grayling, trout and Danube salmon, and good fish below the old bridge at the entrance to town. It also offers tandem paragliding all year, cycling, jeep, quad and horse trips, and notes that the Žarski ski area is under construction.

Biogradska Gora National Park is close by, upstream, and the remains of Brskovo lie within its protection zone on the slopes of Bjelasica.

Getting there and around

Mojkovac is on the Bar to Belgrade railway. On ZPCG’s timetable checked on 11 October 2026 there are four trains a day from Podgorica, taking between 1 hr 34 and 1 hr 51, and the night train runs on to Belgrade. By road, the tourist board gives 70 km to Žabljak and about 100 km to Podgorica airport, and the road to Durmitor crosses the Đurđevića Tara Bridge. Collecting a hire car at the airport, it’s a straightforward drive north, keeping right on the mountain roads.

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