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Educational trails

The trail starts near the park’s headquarters in Krzywe. Here you can also see a natural exhibition “On Lake Wigry”, ethnographic exhibition “Save from Sinking into Oblivion”, and sculpture exhibition. Tourist Information Centre is also localized here. In a conference room you can see a film about the park, or organize a bonfire in a nearby “Dziupla” facility.

It takes about 50 minutes to walk along the whole trail. The way leads around the Suchar I lake and allows you to see several different forest communities: an oak-hornbeam wood, alder carr, mixed coniferous forest and coniferous bog forest as well as a reconstructed camp of reindeer hunters from the Store Age.

Before entering the trail you should buy an entrance ticket to the park, available at the Tourist Information Centre, where you can also hire a guide who will show you around the trail or buy “Forest” guidebook and other informational materials.

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The trail starts about 800m from the park’s headquarters in Krzywe where you can also see a natural exhibition “On Lake Wigry”, ethnographic exhibition “Save from Sinking into Oblivion”, and sculpture exhibition. In a conference room you can see a film about the park, or organize a bonfire in a nearby “Dziupla” facility.

It takes about 2 hours to walk around the whole trail. It leads among the small forest lakes (called Suchary), through bog forest with characteristic plants and animals. On the way you can see beaver lodges, their marks on trees and, if you are lucky, a beaver itself. There is a wooden footbridge over boggy places on the trail as well as a roofed resting place and an observation platform.

Before entering the trail you should buy an entrance ticket to the park, available at the Tourist Information Centre, where you can also hire a guide who will show you around the trail or buy “Suchary” guidebook and other informational materials.

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The trail is situated in the village of Rosochaty Róg and takes about 1 hour to see. It leads among small ponds created especially for amphibians. There are 6 informational boards, a footbridge and a platform. Just like all the trails you can visit it all year long. However, the best time to observe amphibians is their mating season in spring.

Before entering the trail you should buy an entrance ticket to the park, available at the Tourist Information Centre in Krzywe, in a fishing exhibition in Czerwony Folwark – 1 km from the trail.

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The trail is situated in the southern part of lake Wigry in Słupie, near Gawrych Ruda. The trail starts on the Słupiańska Bay near the Łysocha peninsula. It takes about 2 hours to walk along this trail, which provides information about history of the area, its geomorphology and three lakes: Wiry, Suchar Wielki and Długie. There are many boards describing species of trees, shrubs and animals living here.

Before entering the trail you should buy an entrance ticket to the park, available at the Tourist Information Centre in Krzywe, in the Environmental Education Centre in Słupie and in the touristic complex “U Jawora” in Gawrych Ruda.

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The trail is located in Wysoki Most on the northern end of the Augustow Primeval Forest, on the Czarna Hańcza river. It takes about 3 hours to walk along this trail. There are 8 stops: Old Roads, Czarna Hańcza, Archaeological Site, Camaldese Wood-tar Distilling Site, Frontal Moraine, Żurawinowe Bog, Old Forest, Suchar Konopiak.

Before entering the trail you should buy an entrance ticket to the park, available at the Tourist Information Centre in Krzywe, or in a forester’s lodge in Wysoki Most.

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It partly connects with the Wigry narrow-gauge railway in Gawrych Ruda and Leszczewek. The trail presents information about forms of exploitation of forest reserves in the past. Stops on the trail: Bartnictwo (Beekeeping), Binduga, Forest Management, Metallurgy, Forest Railway, Backwoods, Limekiln. You can see it going by train or walking.

Before entering the trail you should buy an entrance ticket to the park, available at the Tourist Information Centre in Krzywe, in the narrow-gauge railway base in Płociczno and in a forester’s lodge in Bryzgiel.

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The trail is constituted by five traditional village gardens situated by the park’s headquarters in Krzywe and by schools in Maćkowa Ruda, Nowa Wieś, Płociczno and Przebród. The trail was created within a project of protection and restitution of old village gardens, flower varieties and herbs realized in the year 2006. In the gardens you can see beautiful traditional varieties of flowers: marigolds, asters, chrysanthemums, zinnias, dahlias, bellflowers, lychnises, phloxes, sweet williams, irises, daylilies, lupins, goosefoots, night-scented stocks, poppies, mallows, asters, columbines, larkspurs, rudbeckias, sunflowers, grape hyacinths, tulips, chrysanthemums and many others. 40 species are described on information boards in the garden by the park’s headquarters.

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