Location

The Stolowe Mountains National Park was created on the 16th of September, 1993. It is situated in the middle Sudeten, in Klodzko region on the Polish-Czech border. The Stolowe Mountains are the Polish part of great sandstone layer situated between the Karkonosze, the Bystrzyckie and the Orlickie Mountains. The Czech part of it bears the name of Broumovska Vrchovina and it's also a protected area (CHKO Broumovsko).

The Stolowe Mountains National Park covers the area of 63 square kilometres of their upper part with the culminations of Szczeliniec Wielki (919 m above sea level) and Skalniak (915 m). In the neigbourhood of the Park there are several popular health resorts: Polanica Zdroj, Duszniki Zdroj, Kudowa Zdroj.