located in one of the most mountainous, inaccessible parts of the ukrainian carpathians, the park is situated in the chivchino-grinyava mountain range, at the headwaters of the two main tributaries of the cheremosh river, which flows north into the prut river, which in turns flows east and south to the danube river. geologically, the park is on the northwest portion of the marmaros crystalline massif (limestone). the cheremosh national nature park is to the east.