On the way
It is about 282 km from Kraków to Łódź, roughly 3 h 14 min of driving without breaks.
Along the way we suggest 10 stops worth leaving the road for: heritage, nature and curiosities. A typical detour is 22 minutes: the extra time to drive to a stop and back to the route.
Stops are listed in driving order, each with the time it adds and its distance from the start.
Opens the planner with this start and destination: choose stops and see the whole route.
Renaissance castle ruins, part of the Eagles' Nests system, in the village of Rudno (Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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An observation tower in the locality of Okrągle (Jaworzno commune, Silesian Voivodeship).
A cape in Sosnowiec (Silesian Voivodeship) where the borders of Prussia, Austria and the Russian Empire met between 1846 and 1915.
An 18th-century Roman Catholic chapel in the Pod Górą area of Dąbrowa Górnicza (Silesian Voivodeship), listed in the Polish register of monuments.
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A viewpoint built in 2015 in the settlement of Kolonia Niwy in Ożarowice Commune, Tarnowskie Góry County.
A Mariavite parish church in Starcza (Starcza Commune, Częstochowa County).
A Roman Catholic parish church in Częstochowa (Silesian Voivodeship).
A Roman Catholic parish church in Mykanów (Mykanów Commune, Częstochowa County), built in 1836 to a design by Henryk Marconi in the Gothic Revival style and entered in the heritage register.
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A viewpoint for railway enthusiasts in the village of Wojciechów in Gomunice Commune, Radomsko County.
A park in Piotrków Trybunalski (Łódź Voivodeship), a landscape manor park from the second half of the 19th century, listed in the heritage register.
Driving from Łódź to Kraków, you reach the same stops in reverse order – read the list from the bottom.
Plan the route from Łódź to KrakówHow stops are chosen: the planner routes the drive, checks places up to 5 km from the road and routes the real detour to each; it keeps those that add at most 30 minutes. Data: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata, Wikipedia, the NID heritage register (CC BY 4.0), Opencaching.PL (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL), photos from Wikimedia Commons with their author and licence.