Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
114 places
gmina Kroczyce
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, better known as the Jura, is a belt of white limestone outcrops stretching about **80 km** between Kraków and Częstochowa. The towers are built of hard Upper Jurassic limestones, and their present shapes were…
Ojców
The Prądnik Valley in the Ojców National Park is the best place to see what Jurassic limestone outcrops really are. The park was established in **1956** as the sixth in Poland and is also the smallest — it covers just **21.46 km²** — with…
Tykocin
On the western outskirts of Tykocin, by the backwaters of the Narew, lies a settlement that owes its fame to birds: **Pentowo** is the European Stork Village, the only place in Poland holding this title, awarded in **2001** by the internat…
Białowieża
The Podlaskie Stork Trail is a cycling route of **412.5 km**, laid out in **2002** through the nesting heartlands of the white stork. It links four national parks — Białowieża, Narew, Biebrza and Wigry — and belongs to the international Gr…
Brzegi
Polana Włosienica lies at the bottom of the Rybi Potok Valley in the High Tatras, at about 1,300 m above sea level, along the Oswald Balzer Road — the asphalt route leading to Morskie Oko. Only 1.5 km separates it from the shore of the mos…
gmina Niegowa
On the Poraj Reservoir — a dam reservoir on the Warta river created in **1978** south-west of Poraj — lies Bird Island, a natural refuge for water birds. It is best viewed from the side of the village of Kuźnica Stara in the commune of Por…
gmina Niegowa
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has two deserts: the well-known Błędowska Desert and the far more modest Siedlec Desert. The latter covers about **25 ha** in Siedlec near Złoty Potok, in the commune of Janów, a few kilometres from the Twardo…
Szczytna
South of the town of Radków, right by the Szosa Stu Zakrętów road, one of the harshest corners of the Table Mountains begins. The **Radków Rocks** are a rock city built of Upper Cretaceous sandstone — bastions, pillars and a continuous roc…
gmina Kosakowo
On the shore of Puck Bay, between Rewa and Rzucewo, stretch the coastal salt meadows of the Beka reserve — one of the last habitats of this kind on the Polish coast. The reserve was created in **1988** to protect the "słonawy", meadows fed…
Giżycko
In the heart of the Puszcza Borecka forest in Masuria lies the Borki forest reserve — established in **1958** on **232 ha** and enlarged in **2015** to **440.22 ha**. It protects the best-preserved central part of the forest: hornbeam-lime…
Chęciny
A limestone rock in the middle of the city: Kadzielnia rises in the south-western part of Kielce to **295 m above sea level**, and its rocks formed in the coral reef of a warm sea in the Upper Devonian. The hill's culmination is Skała Geol…
Krzeszów
On the slope of Krucza Skała (**681 m above sea level**), about 2 km south of Lubawka, striking porphyry intrusions in sedimentary rocks are protected. The Kruczy Kamień reserve was established in **1954** as a geological-landscape reserve…
Racibórz
A few minutes south of Racibórz, within the Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Landscape Park, lies one of the largest nature reserves of the Silesian Voivodeship — **477.38 ha** of ponds, riparian forests and oxbow lakes of the Ode…
gmina Mikołajki
Five kilometres east of Mikołajki lies a lake with one of the richest protection records in Poland. Łuknajno — **680 ha** of shallow water at **115 m above sea level**, connected by a channel to Lake Śniardwy — has been protected since **2…
gmina Niegowa
In a forest between Złoty Potok and Żarki hides one of the smallest reserves of the Jura: **Ostrężnik** covers only **4.1 ha**, was created in **1960**, and still holds a fragment of beech forest, a 14th-century stronghold and karst curios…
gmina Niegowa
The valley of the Wiercica stream in Złoty Potok is a place where nature meets literature and economic history. The „Parkowe” reserve was established on **3 September 1957**, and after enlargement in **2011** it covers **234.13 ha** of hil…
Rabsztyn
On the Ojców Plateau, between the villages of Podlesie and Pazurek, a fragment of the ancient Olkusz forests has been preserved. The „Pazurek” reserve protects beech woods full of wild garlic and hepatica, and at the same time one of the m…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the border of Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry, at the top of **Srebrna Góra (347 m above sea level)**, grows a forest that owes its existence to mining. The „Segiet” reserve was designated on **27 April 1953** to protect beech woods that had…
Częstochowa
South of the Jura town of Olsztyn rises a chain of limestone hills — Sokola Góra, Pustelnica, Puchacz or Donica — covered with forest and honeycombed with caves. The „Sokole Góry” reserve was created in **1953**; after boundary corrections…
Smołdzino
The moving dunes in Słowiński National Park create one of the most unusual landscapes on Poland’s coast. Wind-blown sand forms pale ridges and hills between the Baltic Sea, the forest and Lake Łebsko. The most popular approach is from Rąbk…
Częstochowa
Above the Warta riverbed in Mstów, beneath Góra Szwajcera, a lonely limestone tor rises, visible from afar. **Skała Miłości** — Lovers' Rock, as the locals named it — is considered the northernmost outcrop of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland…
Szczytna
In the central part of the Table Mountains, near Karłów, single rock tors with mushroom-like caps rise above the treetops. **Skalne Grzyby** (Rock Mushrooms) is one of the most distinctive clusters of outcrops in the Central Sudetes — indi…
Podzamcze
Right below the walls of Ogrodzieniec Castle, on the summit of Góra Janowskiego (**516 m above sea level**, the highest elevation of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland), stretches a rock labyrinth called the Rock City. It is a compact group of…
Zawiercie
White rock outcrops rising from forests and fields are the most characteristic feature of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Their material settled on the floor of a shallow, warm sea during the Jurassic period, between **201 and 145 million y…