Parks and nature
a forest reserve in the Bialskie Mountains with a relic old-growth forest over 150 years old
Parks and nature
a reserve of inanimate nature from 1977, protecting karst phenomena around the Bear Cave
Parks and nature
a forest reserve in the Bialskie Mountains with old-growth Sudetes spruce, without hiking trails
Parks and nature
288 km² of the Śnieżnik Massif and the Golden Mountains with five nature reserves, protected since 1981
Parks and nature in Stronie Śląskie: reserves and a landscape park in the Eastern Sudetes. See what you can visit and what is only protected.
It is Śnieżnicki Landscape Park, established in 1981. It covers 288 square kilometres, with another 149 square kilometres of buffer zone around it. The park stretches from Opacz in the south to Złoty Stok in the north. Its highest point is Śnieżnik (1,425 m above sea level) and the lowest parts lie at around 400 metres. Inside the park there are five nature reserves and two ecological areas, and forests cover about 60 percent of the surface.
Puszcza Śnieżnej Białki is a forest reserve in the Białe Mountains, created in 1963 on 124.68 hectares. It lies on the eastern slope of Iwinka, below Rudawiec, at 980 to 1,000 m above sea level. It protects lower-zone beech forest and upper-zone spruce forest. One part of the reserve is a natural deciduous forest, regarded as a relic of the old Sudeten wilderness.
The Bear Cave nature reserve has existed since 1977 and is an inanimate-nature reserve of the geological and soil type. It protects the cave formations, finds of Pleistocene animal bones and karst features. It lies about 2.5 km south of Kletno.
Nowa Morawa was created in 1971 on 22.16 hectares. It protects old spruce forest with Sudeten spruce and a fragment of acidic mountain beech forest. No marked tourist trails lead inside, so for a trip choose the other places instead.
Want more? Go to the page about mountains in Stronie Śląskie or to the nature list. A general overview of the municipality is on attractions in Stronie Śląskie.
