Kotoń — officially known as Solnisko (857 m a.s.l.) — is the highest peak of the Kotoń massif in the Koskowa Góra Range, a quiet, forested summit in the Beskid Makowski mountains of southern Poland. It is a place that rewards those who seek atmosphere and history over panoramic glory.
The summit and its upper slopes are blanketed in dense forest, though two gradually overgrown clearings near the top offer moments of openness and rest. To the west lies Groń (766 m), to the east Gronik, also called Pękalówka (839 m). Remarkably, the fields and houses of the small village of Zawadka climb the southern slopes all the way up to 750 m — an unusual sight at such an elevation. The mountain changes its mood with every season: silent and snow-wrapped in winter, vivid and birdsong-filled in spring, deeply green in summer, and blazing with beech gold in autumn.
How to reach the summitIn 2004, a monument was unveiled in Zawadka to honour the villagers murdered by German forces for sheltering partisans — a quiet reminder that this forested hillside once witnessed extraordinary courage.