Lakes
Wałcz's town lake with a suspension bridge, bathing areas and a trail to Drawa National Park
Lakes
Lakes
Parks and nature
landscape reserve on the Rurzyca with tunnel lakes, peat bogs and a canoe trail
Lakes
a lake by the voivodeship border, on the Rurzyca River and the John Paul II water trail
peat bog reserve in the Drawsko Forest with three small lakes and rare plants
Nature in Wałcz means glacial lakes, a reserve with the meandering Rurzyca and peat bogs in the Drawsko Forest, six places in all within the municipality.
The area around Wałcz was shaped by a glacier: it left long channels filled with water, steep shores and peat bogs. The set shows four lakes and two reserves that can be visited in a day or two. The whole municipality is covered under attractions in Wałcz, and greenery and water from across the region under nature in West Pomerania.
All four are glacial lakes, but they differ in size and surroundings. Raduń and Lake Zamkowe lie in town, Zdbiczno and Dębno among villages and forests.
Raduń covers, by different measurements, from about 198 to 230 hectares, with an average depth of 9.5 metres. It lies at about 110 metres above sea level. Jezioro Zamkowe (Lake Zamkowe) has an elongated shape, and Wikipedia describes it as a town lake. A wider picture of the urban landscape is in the article Wałcz by lakes Raduń and Zamkowe.
Zdbiczno (Lake Zdbiczno) is a channel lake with steep banks and a highly indented shoreline, 29 metres deep at its deepest. A peninsula more than 2 km long reaches into it from the north. The Zdbica river flows out of it. Dębno (Lake Dębno) is far smaller, at about 25 hectares, with forested banks. The border between the West Pomeranian and Greater Poland voivodeships runs along its northern shore.
Near Wałcz a river, springs and peat bogs are protected. The Rurzyca Valley is a landscape reserve, and the Mokradła koło Leśniczówki Łowiska is a peat-bog reserve.
Rezerwat przyrody Dolina Rurzycy (Dolina Rurzycy Nature Reserve) was created in 2005 and covers 554.68 ha of Płytnica Forest District woodland. It protects a meandering river in a deep valley, lakes Krępsko Górne, Krępsko Średnie and Dąb and a chain of clean channel lakes. The most valuable part is a complex of springs and low-lying peat bogs with ten habitat types. For paddlers it is a 25 km trail.
Mokradła koło Leśniczówki Łowiska was set up in November 2011 in the Drawsko Forest, on 101.75 ha. Three small lakes and a pine forest shelter rare water and bog plants and birds. Lake Jeleń takes 8 to 10 ha, and the entire area is under active protection. Cultural traces of earlier inhabitants of the region are described in Orthodox churches of the West Pomeranian Lakeland: a trace of people resettled after 1947.
Walk around Raduń and Zamkowe in the morning, and in the afternoon drive to Zdbiczno or the reserve. Dębno and the Rurzyca lie on the same side, so they are easy to combine.
Remember that protection rules apply in the reserves. If you are also interested in traces of fortifications, see the article The Cegielnia Fortified Group in Wałcz and the Szczecinek bunkers: two sections of the Pomeranian Wall.
In the set the largest is Zdbiczno, the second largest on the Wałcz Plain, at about 220 to 276 hectares, depending on the measurement. Raduń covers about 198 to 230 hectares.
A meandering river in a deep valley, channel lakes, slope forests, springs and peat bogs.
In November 2011, in the Drawsko Forest. It covers 101.75 ha and three small lakes.
Along the northern shore of Lake Dębno.
