The highest peak of the western and northern part of the Golden Mountains (872 m above sea level) with an observation tower and a former cemetery of plague victims from 1633.
Jawornik Wielki is the highest peak in the western and northern part of the Golden Mountains, rising to 872 metres above sea level, in the Złoty Stok municipality.
In good weather the Sudeten Foreland and the Silesian Lowland can be seen from the summit, and Jawornik Wielki itself is clearly visible from the areas around Paczków, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki and Otmuchów. The whole massif is made of metamorphic rocks belonging to the Lądek-Śnieżnik metamorphic complex, and there are several rock formations near the summit. The forest around the peak is mixed, with spruce, larch and beech growing in it.
A wooden observation tower stands on the summit, opened in August 2009 as the first observation tower in the history of this elevation; previously only triangulation points stood here. In 2018 the tower was closed due to damage, and in 2023 it was repaired and reopened to visitors.
On the northern slope of Jawornik Wielki, by a forest road, is a former cemetery of plague victims from 1633, where 1,291 victims of a cholera and plague epidemic are buried. In 2015 a commemorative stone obelisk with a carved cross was erected on the site of the former cemetery, along with an information board describing those events.
The nearest attraction is the Gold Mine in Złoty Stok.
It is also worth visiting the Radochów Cave nearby.
Further towards Lądek-Zdrój lies the John Paul II Spa Park.
Those interested in the history of mining can travel to the Ochre Adit.
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