The best MTB trails around Puszcza Goleniowska

part of the Szczecin - Stargard route, good for riding on the surface

A former chalk and marl mine operated by the nearby "Stern" Portland cement factory, founded in 1862 and owned by the Toepffer family. In 1925, a sudden flood of groundwater through a layer of permeable sand led to the quarry's opening. The quarry quickly filled with water. People were immediately evacuated. The quarry was flooded. Emerald Lake was created, which owes its color and name to the high calcium carbonate content in the water and the reflection of light from the chalk bed. In good weather, railway wagons and even workers' tools can still be seen at the bottom of the lake. A concrete bridge, part of the railway track used to transport chalk output to the nearby cement plant, still stands near the lake today.

well-paved, passable even in rain

Access via the blue trail, MTB bike preferred.

beautiful view

The Seven Coats Tower, also known as the Maidens' Tower, is the only preserved tower from the city fortifications. The monument was most likely built before 1462 as a two-storey structure. At the beginning of the 19th century, the building was not demolished like the other towers, but adapted as utility rooms. After 1850, residential rooms were built on top of the tower and the tower became an outbuilding of the building at Frauenstraße 910. In this form, the tower survived until 1944, until the Allied bombings. The remains of the ruins of the buildings that were located around the tower were demolished in 1956, thus uncovering the walls of the tower. In the mid-1960s, reconstruction and reconstruction of the damaged parts of the tower were undertaken. There are two legends associated with the Maidens' Tower, which explain the name of the monument. The first tells of a wealthy prince who had seven daughters. He wanted to marry each of them off to equally wealthy men. Unfortunately, each daughter fell in love with a poor knight. The father decided to teach the disobedient daughters a lesson and ordered them to be locked in the tower until they got smarter. As a sign of protest, they ordered black cloaks to be sewn for themselves, which they wore day and night. Months passed, and then years, and one day it was noticed that the food that was pushed through the crack in the wall was not being collected. The frightened prince ordered the walls of the tower to be torn apart, and when they did, it turned out that there was no one inside. Apart from the hanging cloaks. From that time on, the tower has been called the Tower of Seven Cloaks, or the Maiden's Tower, and what happened to the daughters of the wealthy prince who were unhappily in love? No one knows to this day. The second legend tells the story of the court tailor of Duke Bogusław X. When the Duke was going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he ordered seven coats to be made from a very rare and expensive material. The tailor carried out the task as instructed, but he cut out the coats so cleverly that he had a few scraps of material left. The matter came to light when one day the Duke saw a woman in a dress made from the same material as his coats. It quickly turned out to be the tailor's wife. As punishment, the dishonest craftsman was locked in the tower, which has since borne the above-mentioned names. Unfortunately, two legends most likely do not correspond to the true source of the tower's name. According to historians, it was the tailors' guild that funded the construction of the building, and they were also supposed to defend it in the event of a siege.

Also known as the Klęskowo stronghold, it is located in the Bukowa Forest on the Chojna hill, 74 m above sea level. On its flattened and elongated peak, we can see an early medieval stronghold, from the 9th-12th centuries. Poorly legible, destroyed ramparts, 300 m long, surround the peak with an area of 0.75 ha, overgrown with pine and beech. According to legend, a powerful castle of robber knights stood here, attacking all travelers, mercilessly robbing them. The stronghold, cursed, and its crew sank underground.

The Osetno nature reserve was established on November 14, 2008 and covers an area of 111.59 ha. Osetno is a forest reserve, but at the same time one of the first mycological reserves in Poland, i.e. protecting rare and endangered species of fungi.