get there
Trains are maybe not the quickest, but definitely the most interesting way to get to Wolsztyn. The town is a small railway junction with lines to Poznan, calling at Szreniawa and Grodzisk Wielkopolski, to Leszno and to Zbąszynek. There are 7 direct trains to Poznan daily - 5 of them are served with modern, air-conditioned diesel units, and two departures from Wolsztyn appr. 5:00 and 13:30 and from Poznan appr. 8:30 and 17:00 are serviced by historical steam locos. Additionally tourist can use 5 regular daily connections to a small town of Zbaszynek - which itself has nothing interesting for tourist, but is a crucial railway junction of the way to Berlin several reliable, but expensive Inter-City trains daily, to Poznan 11 local trains daily + some long-distance ones, to Zielona Gora 4 daily and to Gorzow 5 daily.
Buses - Wolsztyn has numerous bus links with other town and villges in the region :
Poznan - up to 16 buses daily
Nowy Tomysl - up to 20 buses
Nowa Sol with a convenient change for Zielona Gora or Wrocław - up to 9 buses daily
Sulechow - 15 buses
Zielona Góra direct buses- up to 14 buses
and numerous local buses to surrounding villages - for tourist the important ones are buses to Obra over 25 daily and to Przemet 6 daily - both places offer wonderful post-cistersian monasteries.
By car - Wolsztyn is located on the road junction : main road #32 Poznan - Zielona Gora and local ones : #305 to Nowy Tomysl i motorway A2, 303 to Swiebodzin and Babimost-airport (http://www.lotnisko.zielo...), #322 to Wschowa and #315 to Nowa Sol.
active
In the vicinity of Wolsztyn there are many walking paths, cycling and kayak trails :
kayak trail from Karpicko through Wolsztyn, Obra to Grojec 44 kms
kayak trails from Zbaszyn through Strzyżewo to Trzciel 48 kms
walking trail marked yellow from Wolsztyn to Nowy Tomysl through Jastrzębsko i Kuźnica Zbaska
numerous cycling trails nerby Nowy Tomysl, north of Wolsztyn