General information about the park - EN  Ojcow National Park is
the smallest National Park of Poland with the total area of 2145
ha. Forest covers 1529 ha, including 251 ha of the strict
conservation zone. The Park is surrounded by 6777 ha of the
buffer zone. ONP is located in southrn part of the Krakow-
Częstochowa Upland, 15 kilometers north of Kraków. Valleys of
two streams Prądnik and Sąspówka as well as the adjacent
fragments of tje Jura plateau, are part of the Park. The
geological bed was formed by the jurassic limestone some 150
milion years ago.The activity of the karst water resulted in the
formation of a unique   landscape of Ojców valleys, with steep
canyons, some of them 120 meters deep, and various stone
formations and island mountains. There are about 700 caves here.
The Lokietek’s cave (320 m) is teh Park’s longest cave. Mixed
coniferous forest s were predominant at the time, when the Park
was created (38% Park’s surface) with the domination of pine,
fir and spruce trees. Mixed deciduous forest