Vormsi Island offers various opportunities for an active holiday. A bicycle is a suitable means for getting acquainted with the island. The landscapes, semi-natural communities, biodiversity, cultural heritage and insular remoteness of Vormsi offer an experience for people with different interests.

• In 2001, an overview of the nature of Vormsi and studies carried out about it appeared in “Vormsi ja Haapsalu Tagalahe loodus” (The Nature of Vormsi Island and the Gulf of Haapsalu Tagalaht) that is the fifth number in the series “Estonia Maritima”.
• An ecological study of Lake Prästvike, among other things, was carried out in the course of the project NATURESHIP – “Coastal lagoons in Estonia and in the Central Baltic Sea region”.
• Lake Prästvike and the springs located in the limited management zone of Präst

The protection procedure of the Vormsi Landscape Protection Area is regulated by the Nature Conservation Act and the protection rules of the Vormsi Landscape Protection Area.

Based on the specificity of the protection procedure, the landscape reserve is divided into:

The specificity of Vormsi is the insular remoteness and the cultural heritage characteristic to a former habitat of coastal Swedes.

Vormsi Island that is geologically a bit over 3,000 years old can be conditionally divided into three terrains.

The coastal terrain

• Vormsi Landscape Protected Area was founded in the year 2000 in order to protect the individual landscape of the archipelago of Western Estonia and the endangered cultural heritage landscapes characteristic to the area.
• The area of the reserve is 2,423 ha, from which the sea makes up more than a half.
• Since 1989, Vormsi Island with the surrounding maritime area and islands forms the West Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve. The mission of the biosphere reserve is to direct the balanced development of the area, preserve the life and environment and biodiversity.

A good overview of the events and service providers in the area can be found in the tourist information centre of Jõgeva County in Palamuse and on its website.

In Luua village, visitors are welcome in the manor park, the museum room and the arboretum.

Elistvere study trail (“Bird road”) is located in Elistvere manor park, the length of the trail is 2 km in total and there is an observation tower at the end of the trail. The boardwalk is passable also with a wheelchair and a baby carriage.

The Vooremaa region offers many opportunities for active outdoor recreation, including swimming, boating, cycling, hiking, picking berries and mushrooms, fishing and visiting local attractions. Raigastvere observation tower offers a breathtaking view on the surrounding landscape. There are several prepared study trails and resting areas in the Vooremaa Landscape Reserve. The variable landscape is suitable for cycling tours if the hiker is not discouraged by gravel roads and going uphill.

Vooremaa Landscape Protection Area was founded in 1964. According to the protection rules, the main aim of the reserve is to protect, research and introduce the large drumlins, cultural landscapes and the diversity of its nature. The area of the landscape reserve is divided into three conservation zones with a stricter protection procedure that have been left to the mercy of natural processes and without any economic activity. There is also one limited management zone with a more lenient protection procedure.