Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
114 places
Rudno
Brzoskwinka Valley lies between Brzoskwinia and Chrosna, on the southern edge of the Kraków Valleys. The Brzoskwinka stream runs through the broad upper valley before cutting into a wooded gorge with limestone rocks. Its most interesting s…
Bytom
The Bytomka Valley is a green corridor in an industrial part of Bytom. The section between Łagiewniki and Szombierki is the most useful for walkers and cyclists: former post-industrial land was reclaimed as a public nature, recreation and…
Sułoszowa
The Dłubnia Valley is a quieter corner of the Kraków–Częstochowa Upland, shaped by the Dłubnia River. Its valley and the adjoining upland form the Dłubnia Landscape Park, stretching from the Trzyciąż area to Raciborowice. This is not a sin…
Czerna
The Eliaszówka Valley lies between Czerna and Paczółtowice, near Krzeszowice in the Kraków–Częstochowa Upland. Its most wooded section is protected as a nature reserve created in 1989 and lies within the Kraków Valleys Landscape Park. The…
Korzkiew
The Kluczwoda Valley, also known as the Wierzchówka Valley, lies between Bolechowice, Zelków and Wierzchowie on the Olkusz Upland, about 15 km north-west of Kraków. The Kluczwoda stream runs through it, and its winding course gives the val…
Jerzmanowice
The Kobylańska Valley, also known as the Karniowska Valley, stretches between Kobylany and Karniowice, about 20 km north-west of Kraków. It is one of the most distinctive valleys near Kraków: the Kobylanka stream runs along the floor, whil…
Ojców
The Sąspowska Valley is a quiet, almost undeveloped branch of the Prądnik Valley in Ojców National Park. The Sąspówka flows through it, the park’s only permanent tributary of the Prądnik, while wooded slopes hide limestone rocks and caves.…
Jerzmanowice
The Szklarka Valley lies about 30 km from Kraków, inside the Kraków Valleys Landscape Park. The Szklarka stream runs through a valley about 9 km long, from Jerzmanowice through Szklary to Dubie, where its mouth meets the Racławka Valley. #…
gmina Pilica
The Wodąca Valley lies between Smoleń and Domaniewice, on the border of Lesser Poland and Silesia. It is about 3 km long and is a dry karst valley: no permanent stream flows through it. Limestone outcrops, caves and traces of early settlem…
gmina Niegowa
The Geopark of the Northern Jura is a developing geotourism area in the northern Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It covers seven municipalities: Mstów, Olsztyn, Przyrów, Janów, Poraj, Żarki and Niegowa. Limestone formed in a warm sea more than…
Krzeszów
The Głazy Krasnoludków Nature Reserve, also called the Gorzeszów Rocks, lies about 2 km south-west of Gorzeszów in Kamienna Góra municipality. It protects unusual sandstone weathering forms: a chain of rocks about 1,200 metres long hidden…
Tarnowskie Góry
Grojec Hill near Psary, in the Woźniki municipality, rises to **365 m above sea level** as the summit of a limestone hill set in the agricultural landscape of northern Silesia. Its slopes contain the Góra Grojec nature reserve, established…
Sandomierz
The Pepper Mountains, also called Pieprzówki, lie about 2.5 km from Sandomierz Old Town on the edge of the Vistula valley. Dark Cambrian clay shales around 500 million years old form a steep slope with rocky outcrops. This nature reserve i…
Częstochowa
The Towarne Hills north of Olsztyn near Częstochowa are a low, open group of limestone hills with outcrops and caves. Their highest point, Lisica, is about 349 metres above sea level. The rocks form part of the Eagles’ Nests Landscape Park…
Stara Wieś
The Blue Springs lie between Troniny and Stara Wieś in the Załęczański Landscape Park. They are karst springs by the Jarzębski Meander of the Warta: some water emerges from a fissure, while some rises from an oxbow lake. Clear water can ta…
Rzyki
Komoniecki Grotto, also called Komoniecki Cave, lies in the eastern Little Beskids in the headwaters of the Dusica stream. It is a natural rock shelter measuring about 115 m², up to 2 m high and about 15 m wide. The formation is protected…
gmina Niegowa
Bear Grotto in Złoty Potok lies in the Wiercica Valley, within the Parkowe nature reserve in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is a natural cave with a spacious chamber and darker, damp passages, not a lit show cave with guided tours. Trea…
Tarnowskie Góry
The orange-red hillock between the Segiet reserve and the Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry is a tailings heap — a dump of barren rock left after washing lead, silver and zinc ores at the Royal Fryderyk Mine. Heaping began in the **early 19th…
Ojców
In the Prądnik Valley, between the Maiden Rocks and the Bachelors' Rocks, a slender limestone needle shoots upward. The Deotyma Needle is one of many oddly shaped formations in Ojców National Park, but its silhouette and the story behind i…
gmina Kroczyce
Głęboka Cave in the Góra Zborów rock near Podlesice is the most popular underground tourist route in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. **The route is 190 metres long** and descends about **20 metres into the rock**, through chambers filled wi…
Jerzmanowice
Mamutowa Cave in the **Kluczwody Valley near Wierzchowie** owes its name to a **mammoth tusk** found inside. Its huge arch-shaped opening can be seen from the steep south-western slopes of the Berdo hill in the Olkusz Upland. ## What you w…
gmina Niegowa
Beneath the limestone hill of **Ostrężnik in the village of Siedlec** near Złoty Potok lies a horizontal cave, **90 metres long** — a system of passages and small chambers that once served as the **dungeons and cellars of Ostrężnik castle*…
Bystra
Trzy Kopce Cave, also known as Klimczok Grotto, lies on the southern slope of Trzy Kopce in the Silesian Beskids, within the Brenna municipality. It is a natural monument and one of the longer underground systems in Poland’s flysch Carpath…
Częstochowa
Zielona Góra Cave lies on the Zielona Góra hill near Kusięta and Olsztyn, within the Zielona Góra nature reserve. The Polish Geological Institute describes it as a valuable karst feature of the Częstochowa Upland, with calcite columns, sta…