Formatted for offline use. Print on A5, fold in half, put in your jacket. Or just keep it on your phone screen. No account, no email, no conditions.
Each guide is a single PDF file, sized for A5 paper or a standard phone screen. No special app required.
Download before you go. The guides include all the information you need without a data connection in the forest.
Each guide says clearly which season it was written for. The packing lists and route notes reflect actual conditions at that time of year.
We add new guides as we complete the routes. Each one shows a "last checked" date so you know how current the information is.
The most detailed guide we've produced. Covers three entry points to the national park, a recommended 12km circular route, a full packing list for November conditions, and notes on which sections flood after rain. Includes public transport directions from Warsaw centre.
Key items covered:
Covers the Vistula Boulevards loop, the Niepołomice Forest route, the Wieliczka salt mine approach by bike, and two lesser-known routes south of the city. Includes gradient notes and surface type for each.
Download PDF guideThree routes reachable by regional train from Wrocław Główny, plus notes on the Karkonosze day-trip option. Includes train timetable notes (seasonal), trail marking explanations, and terrain descriptions.
Download PDF guideCovers eight lakes within 40km of Poznań. Notes which have designated bathing areas with water quality monitoring, which are nature reserves with no access, and which are informal spots with no facilities. Includes how to check current water quality reports.
Download PDF guideA step-by-step guide to navigating pttk.pl and finding trail condition reports. Explains the colour coding system, how to read the status updates, which regions update most frequently, and how to interpret "partially passable" notices.
Download PDF guidePTTK (Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze) is the national hiking and tourism society in Poland. They maintain a volunteer-updated trail conditions system that covers mountain regions in particular.
The conditions page is found under the mountain sections of pttk.pl. Each region has its own update schedule, and the colour coding works roughly as follows: green means passable without special equipment, yellow means some difficulty or partial closure, red means closed or requiring specialist gear.
The site is in Polish, which can be a barrier. Our printable guide walks through the navigation with screenshots and translations of the key terms you'll encounter. It's genuinely useful once you know where to look.
For forest trails outside mountain areas, the PTTK conditions system is less comprehensive. In those cases, we recommend checking with local forest inspectorates (Nadleśnictwo) whose websites often post closure notices after storms or during nesting seasons.