Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
114 places
Pińczów
On the slope below the forest in Wełecz near Busko-Zdrój grows a fairy-tale tree: the **Scots pine known as the Pine on Stilts**, which lifts itself above the ground on its own roots. The tree is about **100 years old**, and since **2002**…
gmina Lubsza
In the bends of the former Odra riverbed in the Opole region stretches a landscape full of water. The Stobrawa Landscape Park, created in **1999**, protects around **300 oxbow lakes** — elongated, sickle-shaped lakes left in old river chan…
Bydlin
Near Ryczów, not far from Ogrodzieniec Castle, limestone outcrops known as the Straszykowe Rocks, sometimes called scarecrow rocks, gather on the top of Straszykowa Hill. The hill, reaching almost **500 m above sea level**, is among the hi…
Białowieża
Just north-west of Białowieża, between Pogorzelce and Teremiski, a wooden boardwalk leads through the Stara Białowieża wilderness — the place where the first settlement named Białowieża stood centuries ago. This is the **Trail of the Royal…
Sułoszowa
The yellow trail, **85.3 km** long, links the karst valleys of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland near Kraków into one continuous route: from Pieskowa Skała Castle it heads south-west all the way to the railway station in Chrzanów. Along the wa…
Stara Wieś
The red-marked trail, about **113 km** long, runs from Częstochowa to Wieluń through the northern, least-visited part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It starts at the Old Market Square in Częstochowa, passes Mstów and Kruszyna, and then…
Pińczów
Paddling the Nida covers about **102 km** of a gentle lowland river in the Ponidzie region, from the bridge on national road No. 7 down to the mouth on the Vistula below Nowy Korczyn. The river’s source is taken to be the Biała Nida; toget…
Katowice
Uroczysko Buczyna on the south-western edge of Chorzów is a forest of over **65 ha**, designated a nature-landscape complex in **December 2001**. It is a fragment of the protective forest belt of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region which,…
Kościelisko
A rocky ravine branching off the Kościeliska Valley near Polana Pisana, cut deep into the slopes of Ciemniak and Upłaziańska Kopa. The Kraków Gorge is considered the finest rocky gorge of the Polish Western Tatras and was already being vis…
Jawor
A wooded ravine carved by the Jawornik stream and the basalt Organs of Rataj hill — two chapters of one volcanic story in the Land of Extinct Volcanoes. The area belongs to the Chełmy Landscape Park and lies near Myślibórz, a few kilometre…
Tarnowskie Góry
In Żyglin — part of the town of Miasteczko Śląskie in the Tarnowskie Góry county — an unusual natural feature hides on Przygodna street with no sign or fence: a sand dune. At the beginning of the 20th century it was still massive, but over…
Opole
The Stobrawa Landscape Park, established on **28 September 1999** over an area of **52,636.5 ha** in the northern part of the Opole Voivodeship, is the region's youngest landscape park — and a refuge for inland dunes with relative heights…
Bytom
Żabie Doły is a legally protected landscape complex of **226.2 hectares** on the border of Bytom, Chorzów and Piekary Śląskie. The former tailings ponds of the Orzeł Biały mining and smelting works have become one of the most important hav…
gmina Pilica
Above the treetops of the Wodąca Valley rise the white walls of the Zegarowe Skały — one of the most distinctive groups of limestone rocks in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The rocks lie between Smoleń and Złożeniec in the Pilica commune,…
gmina Żary
At the southern edge of Żary, off Komuny Paryskiej Street, you enter a hilly complex where valleys, ravines, small lakes and bogs form a landscape rare within the limits of Polish towns. Zielony Las, lying in the Crown of the Żary Hills, s…
Wiślica
On the edge of Busko-Zdrój, off Stawowa Street right by the village of Łagiewniki, the Nida region reveals its geological peculiarity: hills of exposed gypsum, cut through by karst crevices known as “swallow tails”. This is Zimne Wody — a…
Ojców
In the Prądnik Valley, just behind the Kraków Gate, a spring flows from the rock. At the bottom of its basin you can spot a small stone heart — hence the name, the Spring of Love. According to local legend, a couple who drink from it toget…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In Jankowice near Pszczyna, in the middle of the Pszczyna forests, the Bison Breeding and Forest Education Centre runs a demonstration enclosure open free of charge. On **10 hectares** — a pasture at the front and forest at the back — live…