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the highest peak of the Wałbrzych Mountains, built of volcanic rhyolites, with a viewing tower from 2017
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a hill of the Czarne Mountains in the Central Sudetes, 776 metres above sea level
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a low, wooded elevation in the Czarne Mountains range, good for an easy, relaxed walk
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a hill in the Czarne Mountains range within the Wałbrzych Mountains, formerly known as Kauder-Berg
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a cone-shaped summit 776 m above sea level in the Wałbrzych Mountains, known until 1949 as Dürre-Berg
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a volcanic hill 668 m above sea level in the Czarne Mountains range, on the route of the Main Sudetes Trail
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a hill of the Czarne Mountains sheltering the resort of Jedlina-Zdrój from the north, with an Aromatic Garden on its slope
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summit above Jedlina-Zdrój with remains of a 19th-century viewing park laid out by C. C. Beinert
648-metre summit in the Owl Mountains, in the Włodarz Massif, partly within the Owl Mountains Landscape Park
Nature in Jedlina-Zdrój means volcanic hills, spruce forests and a garden on a slope. See what to look at on a walk in the Black Mountains.
Many nearby summits are volcanic in origin. Sucha (776 m) is built of effusive rock and forms a steep cone with a clear summit. Wawrzyniak (668 m) consists of porphyry and its tuffs, shaped into a dome with a flattened top that falls steeply to the east towards its taller neighbour, Jałowiec, at 751 m. Both lie in the Wałbrzych Sudetes Landscape Park. Sucha rises south-east of the Podgórze district of Wałbrzych, in the Rybnicki Ridge massif, and the Przełęcz pod Borową pass lies below its summit. A red hiking trail runs along the eastern slope of Wawrzyniak, below the top. Borowa, the highest peak of the Wałbrzych Mountains (853.3 m), also has a volcanic past.
Lower montane spruce forest dominates. It covers most of Borowa's slopes and once gave the mountain its name: it was Black, Great Black or, in German, Schwarzeberg, because the dark forest stood out from afar. All of Sucha is under spruce forest, and Wawrzyniak is covered with lower montane forest. On Stróżowa Góra (648 m) in the Owl Mountains the top is under spruce and beech forest, and lower on the northern side lie meadows and pastures that are slowly overgrowing. The summit is faintly marked in the terrain, shaped like a flattened dome, with slopes falling towards the Bystrzyca river.
Rzepisko (560 m) shields the spa quarter of Jedlina-Zdrój from the north. It forms a twin pair with Mniszy Las (572 m), and older sources also call it Rybna or, in German, Fischerberg. An Aromatic Garden was laid out on its slope facing the town. Beside it is Kobiela, a wooded summit with a 19th-century park where remains of gazebos, viewpoints and monuments survive.
Farther along the Black Mountains rise Wołowiec (776 m), Mały Wołowiec and Kozioł (774 m). These are low, wooded hills, good for a walk without much effort and for linking several summits in one route. Sources describe no trails there, so check a current map.
Combine one volcanic mountain with a low hill by the spa and plan your return before dark. Take warm clothes, because it can be cooler in spruce forest than in the open, and keep your phone charged in case you change route. More peaks are on the mountains in Jedlina-Zdrój page, views on the scenic views list, and the whole town under Jedlina-Zdrój. Nature from the region is collected on the nature attractions list.
