Tripto Guide
5 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.

Karpacz
**Karkonosze National Park** protects the highest parts of the Giant Mountains on the Polish side of the border, including Śnieżka, glacial cirques, peat bogs and the subalpine zone. The park was established in **1959** and, together with…

Karpacz
**1,603.30 m** above sea level — Śnieżka is the highest peak of the Karkonosze, the entire Sudetes and the Czech Republic. On the Polish-Czech border you will find the stone Chapel of St Lawrence from **1665**, the Czech post office and th…

Karpacz
The Karpacz promenade is a short, highly tourist-oriented section of Konstytucji 3 Maja Street. Restaurants, cafés and souvenir shops line the centre, but the route is also worth exploring for its links with local history and Himalayan mou…
Karpacz
## Wild Waterfall in Karpacz The Wild Waterfall near the lower station of the cable car to Kopa is one of Karpacz’s best-known sights. Despite its name, it is not a natural waterfall but a cascade formed on a stone debris-retention dam on…

Karpacz
The dam on the Łomnica River in Karpacz was built not for its views but to protect the town from a powerful mountain river. In its upper reaches, the Łomnica has a very steep gradient, and after the catastrophic flood of 1897 a broad progr…