Easy hikes and walks around Lake Gacno Małe

Wielkie Gacno Lake – a lobelia lake in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Chojnice County, Chojnice Commune, located in the area of Równina Charzykowska and the „Bory Tucholskie” National Park. Unlike the neighboring Małe Gacno Lake, it is not a strictly protected area.

Smooth, gravel and usually some distance from the road.

It is worth leaving the forest path you are on, just a few meters, to approach Lake Gacno Wielkie, another of the incredibly beautiful lakes in the Tuchola Forest. The atmosphere is such that Monet would not be ashamed. However, there is something about lakes that takes you.

A very old tree and therefore a natural monument. Over 600 years old! - this one must have seen its day! It looks very majestic. Maybe, if you listen carefully, you will hear some words from a great sage?

Wow, that's an attraction, like a supernatural phenomenon. There are a few or maybe even a dozen of these split trees in every forest, but are they worth pointing out as attractions? Well, probably not necessarily.

The cross, erected by Egon Raszke, just outside the village of Bachorze, was excavated in 2010 by employees of the Tuchola Forest National Park, cleaned and preserved. After renovation, the cross was placed by the Piła Młyn educational trail. Since then, it has found a worthy place, and tourists visiting the Park are happy to stop by it. Maybe to pray or maybe for a moment of reflection. And it calmly guards the Tuchola Forest National Park. https://chojniczanin.pl/chojnickie-nekropolie-pozamiejskie-nieistniejace/

The history of the Napoleonic Cross is connected with the stay of Napoleon's troops in the Chojnice area. It is a wooden cross with a tin crucifix, located in the Tuchola Forest National Park, on the Pilska Road (the so-called cart route), connecting Drzewicz with Bachorze in the Chojnice commune. The original cross was erected by soldiers of Napoleon's army (including Polish legionnaires), who in 1812 were moving east on their way from Szczecinek, through Chojnice, Bachorze and Swornegacie towards Bytów. Some of them, a Polish unit, stopped to rest in Bachorze. These troops were welcomed enthusiastically. Slogans of freedom and throwing off the yoke of slavery resounded. Great hopes were placed in Napoleon, and the success of the expedition and the lives of the soldiers were entrusted to God's care. Among the soldiers was someone willing to make the cross. And since there were only pine trees around, it was carved from its wood. During a rest stop in Bachorze, together with local peasants, they erected a 5.60-meter-high pine cross. They cut out and hung a crucifix from sheet metal. There is no information about where the cross was originally erected, perhaps it was the Bachorze settlement or maybe on the cart route towards Swornegacie. According to the notes of the forester from Bachorze, Egon Raszke, it was brutally removed from its place after World War II. Unfortunately, it lay for a dozen or so years in not very good conditions, because half of the cross's over 5-meter length remained. In 1979 or 1980, in agreement with the parish priest in Charzykowy, two parishioners moved the cross to the Park area, to a dune in the forest, which was formed on an old fire protection strip (east of Bachorze). In 2008 it was removed and put into renovation, because its technical condition was very poor. An oak copy of the cross was made in 1982 by Stefan Jażdżewski, commissioned by forester Egon Raszke. He believed that the cross, or rather its replica, should stand in the village of Bachorze. He took care of the matter himself. He found a carpenter who made a replica of the Napoleonic Cross. The hostility of the residents of the village of Bachorze resulted in the replica being dug up behind the village of Bachorze, right by the road, on a small hill. https://chojniczanin.pl/chojnickie-nekropolie-pozamiejskie-nieistniejace/

The tree is not impressive, but the area where it stands is. And of course the age of the plant:)