Parks and nature
Poland's only site of the downy oak, on the steppe slopes of the Oder valley
Parks and nature
heathland and xerothermic grassland with a path up a 60-metre hill and a viewing platform
a reserve in Cedynia Landscape Park with Pomeranian beech woods and the ravine of the Świergotka River
small spring-fed reserve with giant horsetail by the blue moraine trail
Nature in Cedynia comes as four reserves with four different habitats: steppe, heathland, beech wood and a spring-fed alder grove.
If you enjoy watching the landscape change, it is a good pick: within one commune you pass from dry grassland to damp woodland. Other points in the town are under things to do in Cedynia, and similar terrain across the region under nature in West Pomerania.
Steppe grassland grows in the Bielinek and Wrzosowiska Cedyńskie reserves, both in the Cedynia Landscape Park. The first overlooks the Oder valley, the second lies a few kilometres from the town.
Bielinek became a reserve in 1957, though it came under temporary protection as early as 1927, then under the German name Bellinchen. It protects forest-steppe communities, and the downy oak has its only Polish site here. Wrzosowiska Cedyńskie is heathland and dry grassland. A path from the viewing platform climbs a 60 m hill with a shelter, giving a view of the surroundings.
The woodland reserves are Dolina Świergotki and Olszyna Źródliskowa pod Lubiechowem Dolnym, both small and damp. The first has steep slopes, the second lies by springs.
Dolina Świergotki was established in 1989. It protects Pomeranian beech wood, hornbeam woodland and a stream ravine. Olszyna Źródliskowa dates from 1973, covers a hectare and exists to protect giant horsetail. Ash-alder carr and acid beech wood with broad-leaved helleborine also grow here. The history of the area is added by The Battle of Cedynia in 972.
Bielinek, Wrzosowiska Cedyńskie, Dolina Świergotki and Olszyna Źródliskowa pod Lubiechowem Dolnym.
In the Olszyna Źródliskowa reserve, on the edge of Lubiechów Dolny, by the blue trail to Bielinek.
Dolina Świergotki, a small woodland refuge in the Cedynia Landscape Park.
