Coast
Below the wooden pier, beneath the cliff wall and next to the fishing harbour unfolds the life of a beach often singled out as the finest in the Tri-City. Orłowo combines the best the Polish coast has to offer: sand, a cliff, forest and a suburban railway a short walk from the beach entrance.
The first jetty was built here during the First World War, in the 1920s it was extended to 115 metres, and in 1934 — in rivalry with the pier in Sopot — it was rebuilt in just two months to a length of 430 metres so that White Fleet ships could moor alongside. A storm in the winter of 1949 destroyed more than half of the structure; after repairs in 1953 the pier now measures 180 metres, and its reconstruction in 2006–2007 cost 3.5 million złoty.
The beach is closed off to the south by the Orłowo Cliff — a 650-metre wall of the Redłowo Kępa built of moraine clay, which abrasion pushes back at an average rate of 1 metre per year. Granite and gneiss pebbles lie on the beach, dark streaks of sand hide heavy minerals, and the slopes are home to broom shrubland and the protected sea buckthorn. In 2020, at a cost of 2.5 million złoty, the beach was rebuilt and widened along a 500-metre section to a width of about 40 metres.
Entry to the pier is free, and the SKM station Gdynia Orłowo makes getting there easy. Along the top of the cliff runs a viewpoint path towards Sopot.
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