Meet Choczewo

If You search for less crowded and wide beaches this place is for You. The near the sea place, situated in the Eastern part of Slowinskie Seashore offers special beaches in Lubiatowo, Slajszewo and Sasino. Choczewo is not only beautiful beaches but also many ways of spending Your free time in an active way or those who would like to rest in one of the agritourism farm.

We recommend to drive along the route of the Mansions and Palaces of Northern Kashuby. Out of several tens of historical mansions of Pomerania several dozens were already reconstructed and were changed into hotels and restaurants, registered on the Gdansk – Pomeranian Culinary Prestige”.

The rest of the mansions are ruins and we can visit them only from the outside. Very interesting information for the gourmets is the fact that one of the firs dish, registered on the List of Traditional and Regional Product was one from Choczewo.

Specialities like a Pomeranian duck, the herring form the baller in a sweet-sour sauce, a  Pomeranian bilberry with a pear, A cranberry with apple and  horseradish, Pomeranian dried boletus in a cream, a blueberry tincture or a Kashubian carrot cake, are now all over the local menus.

Plan your trip

Planning You stay here remember about those places, as well many others which offer the true stay in places surrounded by the nature and the cuisine based on local and ecological products.

Choczewo is also a great place for active tourists. A thick net of the local asphalt and sand roads as well as well signed cycling paths invite You for discovering the region on the bicycle. There are 4 routs here:

• 10 km green route around the Choczewskie Lake,
• 9 km yellow route will take You straight to the sea,
• 13 km blue rout along the seashore to Lubiatowska Dune,
• 23 orange route from the Amber Promenade, trough the Kopalino, Sasino and Slajewo with the beautiful lighthouse – Stilo.For the fans of Nordic walking and strolling, there are well signed walking paths  and interesting nature – forest path, called “The glasswork”, where on the12 stops, the forest life was described

Let’s go for fishing

The two lakes here, Choczewskie and Kopalinskie will bring a lot of fun for the fishermen… The first one is in the “Choczewo –  Salinski Protected Area” and has the area of 183 ha, and the deepest point is 12.9 m. It is an excellent place for the rest or for the fishermen too. There are many tench fish and common breams here but also carp fish, ells and perch fish.

The second (Kopalinskie Lake) is a small, charming lake which is a former bay cut off from the Baltic with a wide line of forested dunes. It has 8,37 ha and the depth around 3 m. There is a very popular camp there, where You can rent boats and kayaks. For the fishermen there waiting: common bream fish, crucian carp, roach fish, perch fish and eels. You have to buy the fishing permission  in the Choczewo Forest Office (Choczewo, Świerkowa Street 8, tel: 58 572-26-00). To the Choczewskie Lake You can get from three ways: Perlin, Choczewo or Starbienie.

Stilo

It also worth visiting the Osetnik place (former Stilo), close to Sasin. In the forested dune around 1000 metres from the shore there is a Stilo lighthouse. Due to the several sea tragedies people already in XIX c. demanded building a lighthouse East from Łeba. It was built in 1906. The designer of this beautiful lighthouse was Walter Korte. Made of prepared sections, the lighthouse is 34 metres high.

First the power was the gas  but before WWII it was changed for the bulb powered by the near by generator. Since 1975 the lighthouse is powered by the electricity. At the sea shore a former sound device to inform the sailors about the coming fog. Since 1992 the lighthouse is opened for visitors. It is situated between the Lighthouse in Czołpino and the Lighthouse in Rozewie.