Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
112 places
Kłodzko
**Kłodzka Góra (757 m)** is a popular hiking destination in the Bardzkie Mountains, although neighbouring Szeroka Góra is slightly higher. A 34.5-metre steel lookout tower, built in 2020, stands on the summit. Since the top is surrounded b…
Brzegi
**The Crown of Polish Mountains** is a hiking challenge covering the highest summit in each of Poland’s 28 mountain ranges. Created in 1997, the list runs from Łysica in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains to Rysy in the Tatras. It is not one tra…
gmina Stronie Śląskie
**Kowadło** (989 m above sea level) is a border peak in the southern part of the **Golden Mountains** in the Eastern Sudetes, rising above the village of Bielice. The Germans called it Schmiedekoppe and the Czechs Kovadlina; on the Polish…
Sromowce Niżne
**Koziarz** (943 m above sea level) lies on the main ridge of the **Radziejowa Range** in the Sącz Beskids, in its western part, between Jaworzynka (936 m) and Suchy Groń (855 m). The summit itself is wooded, but since **2015** it has carr…
Rzyki
Łamana Skała (**929 m above sea level**) is the second highest peak of the Little Beskids — only Czupel is taller — and the highest point of the Andrychów Beskids. The summit is wooded, so do not expect broad panoramas, but the ridge hides…
Szczyrzyc
Lubomir (**904 m above sea level**) is the highest peak of the Lubomir and Łysina Range and a point of the Crown of Polish Mountains — as the highest summit of the Makowski Beskids. The forested mountain does not promise sweeping views, ye…
Chabówka
Maciejowa (**837 m above sea level**) is a peak in the Gorce Mountains, lying on the long ridge that runs from Turbacz all the way to Rabka-Zdrój — and one of the most easily accessible mountain walks in this part of the Beskids. The ridge…
Szczyrk
Malinowska Skała (**1,152 m above sea level**) is a junction peak in the main ridge of the Barania Góra and Skrzyczne range in the Silesian Beskids. Here meet the borders of three villages — Wisła, Szczyrk and Lipowa — as well as the histo…
Wilkowice
The Mały Szlak Beskidzki, formerly known as the Northern Trail, is **137 kilometres** of red markings running from Straconka in Bielsko-Biała to Luboń Wielki in the Island Beskids. It is the fourth longest trail of the Carpathians, leading…
Dębno
Modyń (1,029 m above sea level) is one of the highest peaks of the Beskid Wyspowy, a range of solitary hill "islands" between Łącko and Limanowa. The three-ridged massif is covered with dense forest, but since **2021** a **27-metre observa…
Lubomierz
Mogielica (1,170 m above sea level) is the highest peak of the Beskid Wyspowy and a member of the Crown of Polish Mountains, known as the Queen of the range. Since **2022** the forested dome, called the Kopa by locals, has been topped by a…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The Little Beskids is a compact range of the Western Beskids, about **35 km** long and 10–15 km wide, with Czupel (**931 m**) as its highest peak. In winter it offers several friendly slopes near Wadowice and plenty of room for ski touring…
Zakopane
The Tatras are the highest mountains in Poland and the country's most capacious ski area, with Zakopane — the winter capital of Polish winter sports — at its centre. Skiers will find slopes with lifts for every level as well as high-mounta…
Ludźmierz
In Białka Tatrzańska, on national road 49 at the foot of the Tatras, runs the Bania Ski Resort — a compact ski centre linked by a slope to the neighbouring Kotelnica Białczańska. Four lifts, including a **four-seater chairlift**, serve slo…
Istebna
On the north-eastern slope of **Wielki Stożek (978 m above sea level)** in the Silesian Beskids, in the Łabajów district of Wisła, runs the Stożek Ski Centre. It is a pick for skiers who prefer quieter slopes than the big resorts — and for…
Bystra
**Karkoszczonka (729 m)** is a deep pass in the main ridge of the Silesian Beskids, lying between Trzy Kopce (1,082 m) to the north and Beskidek (860 m) to the south. For centuries it has been the lowest and most convenient crossing betwee…
Soblówka
**Przegibek Pass (1,000 m)** lies in the Worek Raczański, part of the Wielka Racza group on the Polish-Slovak border, and has long attracted those who like mountain clearings with views. The grassy saddle, the PTTK mountain hut and a sheph…
Szczyrk
**Salmopol Pass (934 m)**, next to Kubalonka, is the most important road pass of the Silesian Beskids. Provincial road **942** runs through it, linking Wisła with Szczyrk and Bielsko-Biała — a route famous for its hairpin bends and sweepin…
Dębno
Słopnicka Pass lies at about **750 m above sea level** in the heart of the Beskid Wyspowy range, in the saddle between Cichoń (929 m) and Zapowiednica. An asphalt road from Słopnice to Zalesie runs across the pass, along with the boundary…
Soblówka
Rysianka (1,322 m) is a peak in the Lipowski Wierch and Romanka group of the Żywiec Beskids. It rises above three valleys — the streams of Żabniczanka, Bystra and Sopotnia — and joins three ridges, which makes it one of the region's more i…
Szczyrk
## The hut and Fairy Tale Garden At the foot of Grabowa in Brenna stands the wooden cottage Chata Grabowa. The building has been restored and operates as a private mountain hut and a resting point on the trail. Its main advantage is the ri…
Podzamcze
A lone limestone block rising from fields on the eastern edge of Bzów, a district of Zawiercie, is one of the most recognisable summits of the central Jura. Rzędowa Rock is a residual hillock of Rzędowa Hill and stands at **454 m above sea…
gmina Niegowa
Between the ruins of two Jura strongholds — Mirów Castle and Bobolice Castle — stretches a band of white rock outcrops known as the Mirowska Ridge. The Mirów Rocks, with their pinnacles, ravines and steep walls, resemble a miniature Tatra…
gmina Kroczyce
Above the linear village of Rzędkowice in the Włodowice commune towers a limestone wall of outcrops more than a kilometre long, visible from afar thanks to the open, field-dominated surroundings. Since **2009** the Rzędkowice Rocks have be…