Wolf’s Lair

I was on a Gate 1 Poland tour last year and we visited the Wolf's Lair. I am interested in WW2 history and sites and I enjoyed my time there. I really wanted to see this famous site. It's surrounded by forests and certainly remote. They had some of the remains of the bunker as told in the movie Valkyrie. There is a small museum, gift store and cafe onsite. Lots of blown up reinforced concrete structures with 2 to 3 foot thick walls and ceilings. A concrete barrack was intact enough for inside visits. The buildings were destroyed by the retreating Germans to prevent them from falling into Soviet hands.

Close by is a fascinating (and popular) church with animated parts on the pipe organ. Read about and see St. Lipka Baroque Church (Swieta Lipka). Quite a fancy and reverent place for a remote location.

I hope you are visiting the Solidarity museum in Gdansk. I was certainly moved by the presentation.

I haven’t been but found this earlier thread.
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/poland/wolf-s-lair

I visited Wolf's Lair as a stop between Olsztyn (1.5 hr drive) and Warsaw (4 hr drive). So, my total drive time was about the same as what you would do from Gdansk. For me (early 50's) and the young adult traveling with me (early 20's), it was well worth the drive. But we are both pretty crazy about history in general and WWII in particular.

Wolf's Lair -- cool but largely blown up. Nearby Mamerki, headquarters of German Land Forces (OKH) -- intact bunkers that are super cool... but does have some touristy twists like a reconstruction of the missing "Amber Room" and a WWII "museum" with an imagined capturing of Hitler (in a cell with a rat!). Again, the bunkers themselves, though, are cool, and you can climb to the top of at least one of them.

Added fun for Wolf's Lair: learn this little British WWII marching song and sing it in the small area of Hitler's bunker you can enter AND on the front porch of Göring's house. We did, and it is still a a great memory 🙂.

We did a private tour using this company, changing the drop off to Warsaw: https://www.polandtraveltours.com/en/city-breaks/olsztyntours/olsztyn-wolfs-lair-mamerki-bunkers-tour/

Perhaps you can find a similar tour from Gdansk if you would like to see some intact bunkers

Added fun for Wolf's Lair: learn this little British WWII marching song and sing it in the small area of Hitler's bunker you can enter AND on the front porch of Göring's house.

Lol....every day during the summer there's an ice cream van that prowls my area playing that tune and for the rest of the day I can't help singing in my head "Hitler has only got one ball.....". It soon becomes tedious.