Bory Tucholskie National Park. The pine kingdom. Trails, trails, nature!
The Tuchola Forest National Park was separated in 1996 from the most valuable fragment of the Zaborski Landscape Park, in the Tuchola Forest. It hasan area of over 4.5 thousand hectares. The vast majority of the area, as much as 79% of the area, is occupied by forests. With dominant pine! 11% is water, and 10% is swamps, peat bogs and meadows. The relief of the Park was carved by the ice sheet and meltwater even in the ice age.
Bory Tuchola National Park attractions worth seeing
Tuchola Forests are primarily forests, with dominant pine. A walk along the trails marked out here allows you to enjoy the proximity of nature and organize your thoughts. In addition, you will find some special places that are worth paying attention to. Here are some interesting attractions in Bory Tucholskie Park.
Viewpoint on Lake Charzykowskie
The vantage point on Lake Charzykowskie is located between the towns of Bachorze and Małe Swornegacie. On the high bank of the reservoir, which reaches a height of up to 25 m. This is the north-eastern part of the reservoir. From the point secured with a wooden barrier, there is a beautiful view of Lake Charzykowskie. Benches are waiting on site, and from the free parking lot by the road you can get here in a few minutes, slightly uphill. The space is not accessible for wheelchairs.
Islands of Love
On the left you can see Bachorska Island, also called the Island of Love for the Advanced. Interestingly, before the war, it was often visited by scouts from Funki, and in 1941 guerrillas from the Home Army were hiding here. Charzykowskie Lake has another island called the Island of Love for Beginners. It is located 2 km from Charzyków, at the south-western end of the lake. In the interwar period, there was a café on the island and dance parties took place. She enjoyed success among lovers. During World War II, however, drowning occurred during cruises to the island and the cafe was closed. There is no trace of it, but two funnels of bombs that were dropped on the island during the war remain.
Nature Education Centre in Chociński Mlýn
The Nature Education Center of the "Bory Tucholskie" National Park in Chociński Młyn is created by the Nature Museum together with a didactic building and an Animal Demonstration Farm. It is an ideologically harmonious architectural complex that was created on the site of a 19th-century manor house that does not exist today.
The natural history museum symbolically connects the memory of history with the present. At the same time, he tells about the extraordinary world of fauna and flora of the Tuchola Forest. It also creates a human attitude towards nature, so as not to harm it.
Bartuś Oak in Tuchola Forests
Among this pine forest, you will find a leafy wonder. It is an aged pedunculate oak. It is 600 years old and is named Bartuś. Be sure to stop on the trail, by Lake Płęsno and look at it. Although a good age can be seen after him, he is still, or maybe that is why he is touched. Bartuś oak is not a woman, so I will not make a blunder by betraying its perimeter. This one is 718 cm long. And the height of the tree is 22 meters! While almost every Pole knows Bartek Oak from the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, it is worth getting to know Bartusz from Bory Tucholskie!
Footbridges, i.e. the Lipnica Loop
Footbridges lead next to the black trail. The Lipnicki loop was created around the former peat extraction site. The resulting depression filled with water, and with it nature returned with redoubled force, creating a forest pond. Loudly throbbing frogs. You will make a loop with winding footbridges and return to the trail
The beach in Małe Swornegacie
In Małe Swornegacie, at Chojnicka Street, there is a very pleasant sandy beach. With free parking and water equipment rental. Here you will have a nice or quick meal, at a table on the beach, with a wonderful view of Lake Charzykowskie. From the platform, you can enter the cruise ship directly.
Trails in the Bory Tucholskie National Park
Approximately 45 km of hiking trails and about 25 km of cycling routes were marked out in the Park. They continue outside the Park.
Hiking trails:
- Black Connection Trail: Drzewicz - "Lipnicki Loop", about 4.7 km\
- A fragment of the red Kashubian Trail named after Julian Rydzkowski: Bachorze - Bartuś oak - Struga Seven Lakes from Płęsno to the Deer junction, about 9.9 km
- A fragment of the blue Brda Trail: Małe Swornegacie - Owink and from Drzewicz along the j. Dybrzk, about 7.4 km
- A fragment of the green trail of the Struga Seven Lakes: lakes: Małe and Wielkie Gacno - Bachorze - Bartuś oak - Struga Seven Lakes from Płęsno to J. Ostrowite, about 22.1 km
- Yellow Link Trail, connects hiking trails: blue with red and green: from j. Dybrzk to the Deer, about 1.5 km
Cycling hiking trails
- Part of the black cycling trail: Drzewicz - Bartuś - Bachorze oak, about 8.6 km
- A fragment of the blue cycling trail (a fragment of the didactic path "Łąki Józefowskie" - "Lipnicki loop" - Nierybno - Drzewicz, about 12.9 km
- Part of the Kaszubska Marszruta route: Bachorze - Małe Swornegacie, about 4 km
Lakes in the Bory Tucholskie National Park
In the Bory Tucholskie National Park we will come across numerous, charming lakes. The Struga River of the Seven Lakes connects the following lakes: Ostrowite, Zielone, Jeleń, Bełczak, Główka, Płęsno and Skrzynka-Mielnica.
Lobelia lakes - worth seeing in Tuchola Forests
A very interesting group of lakes are also drainless reservoirs with crystal clear water. These are lobelia lakes: Małe Gacno, Wielkie Gacno, Głuche, Nierybno, Kocioł, Łyska and Krzywce Małe. They are usually characterized by an acidic reaction. These lakes owe their name to the evergreen aquatic plant, the lake lobelia. It is a Boreal-Atlantic relic. Such reservoirs have high transparency and a sandy and silty bottom.
Flora, i.e. vegetation of the Bory Tucholskie National Park
The park is an unusual richness of vegetation. 682 species of vascular plants were recorded in the Park, including 48 protected species, including: round-leaved sundew and several species of forkbeards. Algae are unusual in the Park. More valuable are the algae that form underwater "brachial meadows", e.g. in Lake Ostrowity.
In addition, the presence of about 300 species of fungi has been found, of which the most common among edible ones are: chanterelle, goose, boletus, mushrooms, goats, rhizomes and buttermils. The stands are dominated by pine, but there are also birches, spruces, oaks and larches.
The most interesting natural monuments of the National Park are: the 600-year-old Bartuś pedunculate oak on Płęsno Lake with a circumference of 608 cm, the common pine with a circumference of 397 cm by the Bachorze - Małe Swornegatów road and the northern wintergreen stand on the eastern shore of Lake Green.
Fauna, i.e. animals of the Bory Tucholskie National Park
Tuchola Forests are not famous for the largest Polish animals. In the past, bears and wolves lived here, today we will meet only smaller animals. Deer are the biggest here. You will meet a fox, an otter or a badger among the predators. The largest rodent in Europe lives here, i.e. the beaver, and the smallest mammal living in Poland, under strict protection, i.e. the tiny shrew.
Among the birds, the following are interesting species to look out for: bald eagle, owl, owl, hairy owl, heron, black storks, marsh moth, crane, lapwing, kingfisher, funnel or lark. Interestingly, the Park has designated zones for the protection of refuges, breeding sites and the regular presence of the white-tailed eagle and the eagle owl.
Park logo - capercaillie
The logo of the Park shows the silhouette of a rolling capercaillie. Unfortunately, it is not at the same time a symbol of the Tuchola Forests. Why? Because you can't meet him here. Historical documents provide evidence that the Tuchola Forest was a land of the capercaillie. This grouse liked the local pine forests and moist, swampy fragments of them.
Unfortunately, for many reasons, and mainly due to human activity, in 1975 in the vicinity of Laska, probably the last capercaillie inhabiting these areas was shot. However, he feeds on the deep hope that someday the capercaillie will return to its habitats. Its silhouette in the logo reminds that no species should be allowed to become extinct. It is a symbol of human humility towards the power of nature.
Location of the Bory Tucholskie Park
The Bory Tucholskie National Park is located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Chojnice district. It is located within the administrative boundaries of the municipalities of Chojnice and Brusy. Cycling routes lead from Chojnice to the Park. You can also start your sightseeing in Małe Swornegacie and Swornegacie.
Our film about the Tuchola Forests
Watch our video about the National Park and its surroundings. See our impressions while walking in the beautiful forest and attractions that can be seen in the surrounding cities, Chojnice and Człuchów.
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Practical information
All year round, from dawn to dusk
Tickets: normal PLN 6, reduced PLN 3
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Bory Tucholskie National Park,
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