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Wieś Łopuchowo
Głazowisko Łopuchowskie is an inanimate nature reserve near the village of Łopuchowo in the Suwałki district, Podlaskie Voivodeship, within the boundaries of the Suwałki Landscape Park. It was established in 1988 and covers just under 16 hectares of forest, meadows and pastures strewn with glacial erratic boulders.
This is one of those places where the landscape tells the story of the ice sheet more clearly than many an information board.
The reserve is made up of frontal moraine ridges left behind by the ice sheet of the Baltic glaciation. The moraine ramparts are arranged like an amphitheatre, and on their slopes lie accumulations of rock blocks, some of genuinely large size. The highest rampart, in the northern part of the reserve, reaches 258 m above sea level.
The boulders travelled here with the ice from Scandinavia — granites, gneisses and other crystalline rocks alien to the bedrock of Podlasie.
The strongest impression comes from the contrast of scale: single blocks the size of a car lying freely among grass and trees. It is worth walking around the boulder clusters from several sides and climbing onto the moraine ridge, from where a view opens over the rolling countryside of the Suwałki Landscape Park.
The reserve combines well into a single trip with other attractions of the park, such as the valley of the Czarna Hańcza river or the surrounding lakes.
In a protected area you must keep to the designated paths; collecting rock specimens and damaging the vegetation are prohibited. The terrain is undulating and boggy in places, so full shoes work better than sandals, especially after rain.
