Located just by the motorway, the Biesiniec nature reserve covers an area of 24 ha. However, in a dozen or so years, its area will expand to about 40 ha as it is planned to incorporate into the reserve a very interesting neighbouring elevation. Currently, Biesiniec encompasses two elevations – Biesiniec and Wysocka Góra with its picturesque limestone outcrops. Legend has it that there were gallows on top of the steep rocks which were used to hang local villains. There is no sign of the gallows today, and the whole of the elevation is covered by a charming beech forest which abounds in interesting specimens of fauna and flora. As regards the latter, there are many protected and rare plant varieties. Some of the most interesting ones are the Turk’s cap lily, snowdrop, common polypody, maidenhair spleenwort, wood vetch, and the deadly nightshade, a very rare species in Opole Silesia. In Biesiniec one can also find a lot of orchis varieties such as the helleborine, violet helleborine, white helleborine, and the early coralroot to be found only in this particular reserve in the entire Opolskie province. It is also the site of two mushroom species which are rare and vanishing from Poland – the earthstar and the sessile earthstar.