PATH ADMINISTRATOR: Masurian Landscape Park
MARKING: white square with a yellow stripe (diagonally)
ON THE ROUTE:
- A dirt road, the route partially leads along the busy national road no. 58.
A picturesque route that both hikers and cyclist will love. The path will lead you through such forest areas where you’ll have the opportunity to see the commercial forest and compare it to the one under reserve protection. Initially the trail winds along the Krutynia River and presents black alder, a species typical of the river banks. Alder is the only deciduous species that forms an arrow-shaped trunk (trunk with one axis from the base to the top) and creates a woody cone-like inflorescence. Such features are typical of conifers. The path continues along the Królewska Sosna peat reserve. Lower terrain, stagnant water, rickety pine trees and dwarf shrubs are typical to a bog. On the dystrophic Lake Kruczek Duży and Lake Kruczek Mały you’ll see floating islands formed by a floating mat detached from the shores. There is a Protestant cemetery near the path, the only thing that’s left from the former settlement of Zakręt. In the Masurian Landscape Park area you will find over one hundred cemeteries. They are often the only trace of a settlement that used to be there, and its inhabitants.
