Mroźna Cave

Nature

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Kościelisko Tourist region: Tatry i Podhale

Organiser: Tatrzański Park Narodowy

It has a constant temperature of around six degrees Celsius, so you can cool down in the summer and warm up in the winter. It blows cold air and white, frost-like formations emerge on its walls. It was discovered in 1934 and adapted for tourism 25 years later.

Stefan Zwoliński, the co-discoverer of the cave, stated in his notes that the cave took its name from the Zimna Cave, with which it must once have connected. It is located on the eastern slope of the Kościeliska Valley, at an altitude of 1,100 metres above sea level, and is 773 metres long. It developed on a clear crevice piercing through to the Organ massif. Its main corridor is less than 500 metres long. It features lakes called Piaskowe Stawki and Sabałowe Jeziorko. In the past, bats hibernated over the winter there. Until now, the Mroźna Cave was the only artificially illuminated cave in the Polish Tatra Mountains, and no torch was needed to visit it. After the renovation, the artificial lighting was removed, and now a torch is required and a helmet is recommended to see it. The tour takes about 40 minutes. You visit on your own, without a guide. Although it is one of the smaller caves, with a single corridor, stalactites, stalagmites and limewash, the initial form of the frost-like outgrowth, can be observed.