Stará Lesná or "Old Forest" is a village and municipality in Kezmarok District in the Prešov Region in north-central Slovakia. Stará Lesná is located in an area traditionally known as Spiš and it is situated within the Slovak Tourism Region of the Tatras.

Selected sights and locations within an hour's drive away:

• the Roman Catholic church in Stará Lesná (13th century, rebuilt in the 18th century, belfry ca. 1600)
• TANAP Museum
• Tatra Nature Exposition (botanical garden) and cable way to Lomnicky Peak in Tatranská Lomnica
• Gerlachov, highest Carpathian peak at 2,655 m
• Stary Smokovec 8½ and 13 other settlements of the Town of High Tatras
• Belianska Cave 15 in the White Tatras
• Castle of Kezmarok, Wooden Articular Church in Kezmarok (part of a World Heritage Site, WHS) in Kezmarok
• AquaCity, Sub-Tatran Museum and Tatras Gallery in Poprad; Spišská Sobota (suburb); Poprad-Tatry Airport
• Dom Zdiar (Goral museum) in Zdiar
• Strázky Manor House in Spišská Belá
• Štrbské Pleso
• entrances to Slovak Paradise National Park in Cingov and Podlesok, Tomasov Viewpoint and Dobšiná Ice Cave
• Museum of Spiš Territory in Spišská Nová Ves
• Lysá Polana + Lysa Polana
• Levoca, Spiš Castle and the Associated Cultural Monuments (WHS); Levoca, Spiš Castle, Spišské Podhradie, Spišská Kapitula and Zehra; in Levoca St. James's Cathedral (Majster Pavol's altar) and Spiš Museum
• Markušovce Manor House and Dardanely (garden house)
• Castle of Stará Lubovna and Skanzen (open-air traditional buildings' museum)
• Spišská Stará Ves (center of Zamagurie)
• Red Monastery and start of Dunajec rafting in Cerveny Klastor in the Pieniny National Park
• Niedzica Castle
• Zakopane
• Liptovsky Mikulas
• Demänovská Cave of Liberty
• Jasná (largest ski resort in the country) in the Low Tatras.