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Palace Park – Białowieża Gravel Roads loop from Hajnówka
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Palace Park – Białowieża Gravel Roads loop from Hajnówka
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Palace Park – Białowieża Gravel Roads loop from Hajnówka
03:24
48.5km
180m
Cycling
Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 29, 2026
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Waypoints
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Start point
Train Station
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4.29 km
Green Velo section between Hajnówka and Budy
Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway
The road is light, easy and pleasant. Unfortunately, for me such a long straight section is very tiring. Nevertheless, it is better to take this path than the asphalt road to Hajnówka.
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12.8 km
In Budy
Highlight • Historical Site
A long time ago, in the Białowieża Forest, forest workers, or budnicy, settled. During the day, they worked in the forest: cutting down trees, burning charcoal, and at night they slept in budy, or dugouts covered with brushwood. The name Budy refers to the first houses that were built in this beautiful, picturesque village.
While in Budy, you can visit Sioło Budy and Białowieskie Sioło, which are located almost in the same place. Sioło means a farmstead in eastern dialects. There, you will visit a replica of a farmstead from the forest area, which is almost 200 years old!!!
You will see an old village cottage with a thatched roof. Next to it, there is a wooden pigsty, a barn and a well with a crane, from which water was once drawn. The entire farm is surrounded by a plaster fence made of willow branches. This is a very clever
solution, because when a hole appeared in the fence, all it took was to tear off a few branches
of the willow to have material to patch it up.
pb.edu.pl/oficyna-wydawnicza/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/08/Podroze_po_drewnianym_Podlasiu.pdf
While in Budy, you can visit Sioło Budy and Białowieskie Sioło, which are located almost in the same place. Sioło means a farmstead in eastern dialects. There, you will visit a replica of a farmstead from the forest area, which is almost 200 years old!!!
You will see an old village cottage with a thatched roof. Next to it, there is a wooden pigsty, a barn and a well with a crane, from which water was once drawn. The entire farm is surrounded by a plaster fence made of willow branches. This is a very clever
solution, because when a hole appeared in the fence, all it took was to tear off a few branches
of the willow to have material to patch it up.
pb.edu.pl/oficyna-wydawnicza/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/08/Podroze_po_drewnianym_Podlasiu.pdf
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20.6 km
Observation tower overlooking the Narewka River wetlands
Highlight • Viewpoint
From this observation tower you overlook a marshy area where numerous storks and many other birds can be observed. Less than 500 meters on foot further, you will see some remarkable trees.
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23.0 km
Tsar's Palace Gatehouse, Białowieża
Highlight • Historical Site
The Palace Park located in Białowieża was established at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries around the hunting residence of the Russian tsars, built in the years 1889–1894. Its area is approx. 50 ha. The main building of this residence was the palace, which burned down in 1944. Only the so-called kitchen gate survived. The buildings that once accompanied the tsar's palace have also survived: the Management House, the Marshal's House, the Jegierski House, the Drivers' House, the Bath House. In the place where the palace once stood, today there is the Directorate, the Nature and Forest Museum and the BPN Guest Rooms. The park was designed in the English style, also called landscape style, by the famous planner - Walerian Kronenberg. Its characteristic feature is the free compositional assumptions, with the plant thread coming to the forefront. Against the background of compact trees, single trees and their small groups growing in the clearings look picturesque. Of the approximately 200 species of trees and shrubs planted here, nearly 90 have survived to this day.
bpn.com.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=280
bpn.com.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=280
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23.4 km
Palace Park
Highlight • Historical Site
This beautiful park is located just north of the tourist office. It is not part of the national park, which means entry is free. You enter by crossing a small bridge over a canal. It dates from 1890 when the village of Bialowieza was still under the control of the Russian tsars.
The latter also had a palace built which did not survive the vagaries of time. In the large wooded park, a Victorian-style building has a small museum which intelligently introduces you to the animal species that you can discover in the Białowieża Forest.
The latter also had a palace built which did not survive the vagaries of time. In the large wooded park, a Victorian-style building has a small museum which intelligently introduces you to the animal species that you can discover in the Białowieża Forest.
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23.7 km
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
Highlight • Religious Site
According to local records, as early as the 17th century, there was a small Orthodox church in Białowieża, which was burned down along with the village during the plague of 1710. Records locate the church on Browska Road. The only surviving relic of it is said to be a bell from 1661, located in the cemetery chapel. Unfortunately, there is no confirmation of this information in known written sources. Initially, the Białowieża residents were assigned to the parish church in Shereshevo, which received funds and privileges from Ivan Abramovich as early as 1517. After the construction of the church in Suchopol in 1680 and the establishment of the Suchopol parish, they transferred to it. In 1704, the Białowieża manor received the right to collate and present the Suchopol priests from King Augustus II. Białowieża's affiliation with the Suchopol parish is confirmed by visitations from 1748, 1757, and 1769. In 1757, it had 733 faithful, including 83 from Białowieża. In 1769, the parish had 251 families – 23 from Białowieża (56 people were recorded as having gone to confession). Around 1782, the church in Suchopol burned down. Because the chapel built in its place could not accommodate all the parishioners, construction of a new church began. Construction work lasted seven years. In 1799, Białowieża, with 30 families, was still part of the Suchopol parish, although it had already had its own church for several years. The Białowieżaites may have been assigned to the Suchopol parish as late as 1800, but the 1801 visit does not mention them. The Orthodox church in Białowieża was built in 1793. The church's foundation deed was issued on May 2, 1797, by the Chief Treasurer, Major Jan Szczepanowski.
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24.3 km
Białowieża Palace Station Pavilion
Highlight • Monument
Białowieża Palace - currently closed final railway station located in the center of Białowieża. The railway station was built within 4 months of 1897 for the needs of the residence of the tsars of Russia - the palace in Białowieża - erected by order of Tsar Alexander III in 1894. The tsar and his family traveled by train for hunting, which was prepared for weeks or even months earlier. Before his arrival, the entire station was decorated, he was greeted by the whole entourage. After the destruction of the wooden pavilions from the end of the 19th century during World War II, a station building in the late modernist style was built in their place in the 1970s, which was destroyed after being abandoned after 1994. The route to Hajnówka was used for over 100 years until the line was closed on December 31, 1993 due to unprofitability of transport. In the years 2014-2015, the construction of a new wooden pavilion referring to the railway station from the end of the 19th century was carried out. Due to the terrain limitations, the reconstructed building is not an exact copy of the old one (it was shortened and reversed; the original station faced the park and the palace).
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44.5 km
Białowieża Gravel Roads
Highlight • Trail
Beautiful and comfortable gravel roads in the Białowieża forests.
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48.5 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
28.1 km
17.0 km
1.84 km
1.65 km
< 100 m
Surfaces
28.4 km
17.1 km
1.94 km
997 m
193 m
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