Ćwilin (1072 m a.s.l.) is the second highest peak in the Beskid Wyspowy range and one of those mountains that simply stays with you. Standing alone, cut off from neighbouring ridges by deep valleys on all sides, it offers a wide summit meadow and views stretching all the way to the Tatra Mountains.
The highlight is Polana Michurowa — the broad summit clearing that was once a busy shepherding ground and today rewards hikers with a wooden chapel, picnic benches, and a sweeping panorama covering the Gorce range, the Tatras, Babia Góra, Beskid Sądecki, and on clear days even the Slovak peaks of Malá Fatra and Veľký Choč. The steep open slope also makes this a popular paragliding launch site. In autumn the surrounding beech forests glow with colour, in winter the solitary summit takes on a wild, dramatic character.
How to reach the summitThe name Ćwilin comes from the German word Zwilling, meaning twin — given by 14th-century settlers who saw it as a pair with the neighbouring peak Śnieżnica. During World War II the summit meadow served as a secret Home Army drop zone codenamed 'Sokół' (Falcon), where weapons and supplies were parachuted in from Allied aircraft flying out of Brindisi, Italy.