A protected lowland landscape of forests, lakeland hills, and the Lower Oder Valley in northwestern Poland.
Cedynia Landscape Park
Cedynia Landscape Park (Cedyński Park Krajobrazowy) is a protected landscape area in northwestern Poland, within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, near the German border along the lower course of the Oder River. It covers roughly 308 square kilometers and protects a diverse mosaic of lowland scenery, including sandy pine forests, postglacial hills, riverine floodplains, and small glacial lakes.
The park belongs to the constellation of protected landscapes managed by the West Pomeranian Complex of Landscape Parks, and it sits within several distinct physical-geographical regions, including the Myślibórz Lakeland, the Gorzów Plain, the Lower Oder Valley, and the Freienwalde Basin. Together these regions create a varied transition between the young glacial landscapes of the Pomeranian Lakeland and the large river corridor of the Oder.
The area is best understood through its named subregions, such as Puszcza Piaskowa (the Sandy Forest), the Moryń Hills, the Krzymów Hills, the so-called Cedynia Carpathians, the Cedynia Floodplains, and the Mieszkowice Forests. Their combination of dry pinewoods, wet valley forests, mires, and hilly moraine terrain gives the park its identity as a lowland nature reserve with strong ecological gradients across a relatively compact area.