In 1825 Vlkolínec had 334 inhabitants — its high-water mark, and a lot of people for that shelf of hillside. The plan you can still walk is the plan they needed: houses set narrow end to the lane, each on a long plot running straight up the slope, so that every household had its own strip of garden, yard and then meadow above. Two- and three-room log houses on stone footings, shingle roofs, very small windows to hold the heat. Nobody designed this village; the slope and the number of mouths did.V roku 1825 mal Vlkolínec 334 obyvateľov — najviac vo svojich dejinách a na taký kus svahu naozaj veľa. Pôdorys, po ktorom sa dodnes chodí, je presne ten, aký potrebovali: domy stoja úzkou stranou k ulici, každý na dlhej parcele stúpajúcej rovno do svahu, takže každá domácnosť mala vlastný pás záhrady, dvora a hore nad ním lúku. Dvoj- a trojpriestorové zruby na kamennej podmurovke, šindľové strechy, veľmi malé okná, aby držali teplo. Túto dedinu nikto nenavrhol — navrhol ju svah a počet úst.
