Tree Tower Lipno, Czech Republic In summer 2012, the first Czech tree- top walk was opened in Lipno in the presence of Václav Klaus who was President of the Czech Republic. A path with a length of 675 m leads to the major tourist attraction: the tree tower. On the top platform at a height of 40 m, visitors can enjoy the wonderful view from the wooden look-out construction over the Šumava National Park and the Lipno Dam on the Vltava River. In its center, the tower includes a playground slide of 52 m length representing the longest closed slide in the Czech Republic. The Tree Tower The tower construction consists of an external circular ring based on nine glued laminated timber columns which have been arranged in rota- tional symmetry and set up with an angle difference

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