The Bucegi Natural Park () is a protected area (natural park category V IUCN) situated in Romania, in the administrative territory of counties BraÃÂov, DâmboviÃÂa and Prahova.
The Natural Park is located in the south-central part of Romania, in the Bucegi Mountains of the Southern Carpathians.
The Bucegi Natural Park with an area of 32.663 ha was declared a protected area by Law Number 5 of March 6, 2000 (published in Monitorul Oficial Number 152 of April 12, 2000) and represents a mountainous area (caves, pit caves, canyons, ridges, sinkholes, valleys, waterfalls, pastures and forests), that shelters a variety of flora and fauna. The park is famous for its Babele and Sphinx features.
Beech forests, bushes, alpine limestone grasslands, alpine rivers and herbaceous vegetation, mountain hay meadows, springs, limestone rocky slopes and seminatural dry grasslands.
Protected areas included in the park: Abruptul MÃÂlÃÂieÃÂti - BucÃÂoiu - Gaura (1.634 ha) and Locul fosilifer Vama Strunga in BraÃÂov County; Cocora Cave and Cheile UrÃÂilor (307 ha) in DâmboviÃÂa County; and Abruptul Prahovean Bucegi (3.478 ha) and ColÃÂii lui BarbeàMountains (1.513 ha) in Prahova County.