Lakes
an endorheic lake in the Beech Forest with a beach and trails from Binowo
Lakes
lake on the edge of the Beech Forest with a stronghold site and a junction of two trails
Lakes
endorheic lake in the heart of the Beech Forest with viewpoints and two trails
Parks and nature
spring beech woodlands, commemorative boulders and an educational path with 12 stops
Parks and nature
a fungi reserve in Beech Forest, crossed by the green Czwójdziński Trail
Nature in Stare Czarnowo means the Bukowa Forest: two woodland reserves and three lakes, large and small, connected by a network of trails.
Anyone looking for a forest with real nature protection near Szczecin will find it in the Stare Czarnowo municipality. The five places in this selection carry the nature tag and sit inside the landscape park that protects the forest near Szczecin. When choosing a destination, look less at distance than at what you want to see: a beech wood with springs, a fungi forest or a lake shore. Descriptions of the whole municipality are gathered at things to do in Stare Czarnowo, and the general list of such places in the region is nature in West Pomerania.
Two, both in the Bukowa Forest: Źródliskowa Buczyna on the hills' southern side and Osetno closer to Kołbacz. The first protects a large woodland complex with an educational path, the second was created with fungi in mind. Together they show two different faces of the same forest.
Rezerwat przyrody Źródliskowa Buczyna is named after Jerzy Jackowski and covers 155.44 hectares. Part of it lies in a hollow by Lake Glinna, and it is about five kilometres from Stare Czarnowo. Protection began on 30 May 1956. Walkers meet a trail junction and an educational path where you stop twelve times.
Rezerwat przyrody Osetno lies 2.5 kilometres west of Kołbacz. It was among the first reserves in the country set up with fungi in mind. Visiting comes down to walking the green trail, so it suits a quiet, short outing.
Choose according to whether you prefer open water or quiet in the woods. Glinna Wielka measures 75.6 hectares, is shaped by five bays, and has a hillfort at its shore. On the Łużec glade trails cross, which makes it easy to combine lake and forest. Jezioro Binowskie has no outflow. Its western shore is dry and wooded, while the north-eastern one is boggy and overgrown with rushes, a different type of vegetation visible from afar.
Piasecznik Duży is the smallest of the three lakes, at 14.8 hectares, also without an outflow. It has a strongly indented shoreline and viewpoints from which you can see how the hills fall towards the water.
In two reserves of the Bukowa Forest: Źródliskowa Buczyna and Osetno. Both lie in the Szczecin Landscape Park.
About 155 hectares. It was created in 1956 and bears the name of Jerzy Jackowski.
According to descriptions, Glinna Wielka, with an area of 75.6 hectares.
Lake Binowskie and Piasecznik Duży have none. Glinna Wielka is the biggest lake along the forest's southern edge, by its descriptions.
