Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
114 places
Jerzmanowice
Wierzchowska Górna Cave is located in Wierzchowie, in the upper Kluczwoda Valley, outside Ojców National Park. It is a natural monument and one of the most interesting visitor caves in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The cave has about 1,00…
Rzyki
The caves of the Little Beskids form part of the mountain landscape of the Little Beskids Landscape Park. The best-known is Komoniecki Grotto on the western slopes of Pośredni Groń. The area also contains the Czarne Działy caves and Wietrz…
Rabsztyn
The caves of the Klucze municipality lie in the Lesser Poland part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, among limestone hills, forests and the Błędów Desert. The municipality lists Błotna, Lodowa, Pod Porzeczką and Na Świniuszce among its kar…
Tarnowskie Góry
On **Srebrna Góra hill (347 m)**, on the border of Tarnowskie Góry and Bytom, lies **Blachówka** — a former dolomite quarry famous as the **"Silesian canyon"**: red, cracked earth and rock walls form a landscape unlike anything else in the…
Podzamcze
The disused Jurassic limestone quarry at Bzów near Zawiercie has white rock walls, ammonite traces and a location close to Rzędowa Rock and Ogrodzieniec Castle. ## Limestone and ammonite traces The quarry is a remnant of the former Wiek Ce…
Częstochowa
The quarry and trail are outdoor areas; check local signs and the current condition of the approach before travelling. ## A 5.3 km geology trail The quarry is the **sixth stop of a 5.3-kilometre geology trail**, opened to visitors in **200…
Piekary Śląskie
In the eastern part of the village of Rogoźnik, in the municipality of Bobrowniki, a disused quarry lies in a small basin between the Buczyna and Sadowie hills. Limestone and marl from the **Triassic** period was extracted here — rocks wit…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
Today the flooded workings and their surroundings are used for walking and cycling, subject to nature-protection rules. ## A ropeway and 200 tonnes of aggregate In the interwar period almost **200 tonnes of aggregate** were produced here,…
gmina Niegowa
In the village of Siedlec, in the municipality of Janów, at the top of a forested hill at about **374 m above sea level**, one of the most interesting exposures of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland comes to light. The quarry is disused and pri…
Kruszewo
**The Waniewo–Śliwno Footbridge** is a wooden nature trail through the marshy Narew valley in Narew National Park. The route is about 1.2 km long and connects the areas around Waniewo and Śliwno, crossing wetlands, reedbeds and river chann…
Radzionków
**Kocie Górki** is a hilly walking area on the border of Piekary Śląskie and Radzionków, shaped in part by former mining. Pits, spoil heaps and hollows have been reclaimed by vegetation, creating a mosaic of habitats from damp depressions…
Łęknica
**The Colourful Lakes of the Muskau Arch** are best explored as the Former Babina Mine geotrail near Łęknica and Nowe Czaple. These are not natural lakes but water-filled pits left by former brown-coal mining. Their colours range from rust…
Gruszków
**The Colourful Lakes in the Rudawy Janowickie** lie above Wieściszowice on the slopes of Wielka Kopa. Four ponds — Yellow, Purple, Blue and the seasonal Green — formed in workings of former pyrite and other-ore mines. Their intensity is n…
gmina Gryfino
The Crooked Forest near Gryfino is a small group of about one hundred Scots pines whose trunks bend into broad arcs close to the ground. The site lies in Nowe Czarnowo, about 4 km from Gryfino and near the Dolna Odra Power Plant. The trees…
gmina Niegowa
Near Żarki, at the northern edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the Częstochowa Upland comes to an abrupt end: towards the Varta pradolinya (ice-marginal valley) drops a steep rock scarp about **70 metres** high — the Jura cuesta, one o…
Tarnowskie Góry
In the middle of a forest between Kalety-Miotek and the town centre, roughly halfway along Paderewski street, lies a meadow that turns into a blue-violet carpet in June. This is when the **Siberian iris** blooms — a species under strict pr…
gmina Kroczyce
At the foot of Góra Zborów, a few steps from the Heritage Centre of the Jura in Podlesice, an open-air collection of stone witnesses to the history of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has been laid out. Each block has an information board, so…
Warszawa
On the southern edge of Warsaw, around Leśna, Moczydłowska and Nowoursynowska streets, stretches the reserve named after Stefan Starzyński — **902.68 ha** of forest protected since **11 August 1980**. It borders directly on the Ursynów hou…
Katowice
Contrary to the stereotype of Katowice as a city of nothing but chimneys, a fragment of mixed forest with natural features is protected within its limits — the Murcki Forest reserve, established in **1953** and enlarged in **1989** to **10…
gmina Niegowa
At Kościuszki Street in Żarki, on road **792** leading to Jaworznik, stands a small-leaved lime called Babka — a natural monument more than **500 years old**. The tree has kept barely a third of its trunk and the wood is partly rotten, yet…
gmina Jastarnia
Between Jastrzębia Góra and Rozewie, within the Coastal Landscape Park, the shore is cut by Lisi Jar — a ravine reaching **50 metres** deep, down which you can walk to the beach through entrance no. **19**. Not so long ago the ravine stret…
Jastrzębik
The mofetta named after Professor Henryk Świdziński, on the boundary of Jastrzębik and Złockie near Muszyna, is the largest and most productive cold gas emission in Poland. From the bed of the Złocki Stream a gas consisting of roughly **95…
Zawiercie
Okiennik Wielki is the best-known rock outlier in the Silesian part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland and one of its symbols. It rises at the border of the villages of Piaseczno and Skarżyce (Kroczyce commune), right beside the red Trail of…
Łupki
On the slope of Wielisławka (375 m above sea level) in Sędziszowa near Świerzawa, a formation unlike any other comes to light: vertical, regular columns of rhyolite that resemble the pipes of a giant organ. It is one of the most interestin…