Study and hiking trails

Start and finish: Kootsi village, Mart Saar home museum
Length: 4.4 km
Marking: information boards
Sights: drained swamp forest, Kuresoo bog, bog ponds, Mart Saar home museum
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: Sandra village, end of the road to Karuskose
Length: 4.3 km
Marking: signs, information boards
Sights: swamped forest, bog ridge, Kuresoo bog, bog ponds, observation tower
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: Tipu Village, RMK Visitor Center of the Soomaa National Park
Length: 1.8 km, of which 660 m is accessible to wheelchairs and prams
Marking: signs, information boards
Sights: different forest types, Mardu stream, traces of beaver activity
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish : Sandra village, parking lot at 15.6 km mark of Kildu-Tõramaa road
Length: 1 km
Marking: information boards
Sights: drained peatland forest, stem decay fungi, observation tower
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: Sandra village, parking lot at 19.6 km mark of Kildu-Tõramaa road
Length: 5.8 km
Marking: information boards
Sights: floodplain forest, traces of beaver activity, Lemmjõe dam, Lemmjõgi, Raudna river
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish : the car park on the 26th kilometer of Kõpu-Jõesuu road and location some 200 m from Meiekose bridge over Raunda river towards Tõramaa
Length: 5.6 km
Marking: information boards
Sights: floodplains or flooded grassland and vegetation, Raudna river, study oaks, old farmsteads
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: 32nd kilometre of Kõpu-Jõesuu road, Riisa village
Length: 4.8 km, of which 660 m is accessible by wheelchairs and prams
Marking: information boards
Sights: Riisa bog, bog ponds, Navesti river and high shore forest, observation tower
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: Iia village, direction sign on 7th kilometre of Kõpu-Jõesuu road
Length: 2.4 km
Marking: information boards
Sights: lake remains, Öördi bog
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: the part of the hiking trail on the territory of the Soomaa National Park runs from the Hüpassaare campfire site to the Pertlimets campfire site
Length: 56 km (total length of the Oandu-Aegviidu-Ikla hiking trail is 375 km)
Marking: signs and kilometer posts
Sights: Mart Saar House Museum, Oksa casing smokestack, Läti observation tower, National Park Visitor Center, Tipu Schoolhouse and Nature School
Manager: State Forest Management Center (RMK), +372 435 7164, info.soomaa@rmk.ee
regional nature manager Silver Sams + 372 5302 2170

Start and finish: Kõpu-Jõesuu road, Tipu village, Tipu Schoolhouse
Length: 3 km
Marking: signs, information boards
Sights: Tipu Nature School, Halliste river, Villem Reiman's birthplace Pauna farm, floodplain grassland
Managaer: Tipu Looduskool MTÜ, + 372 535 36961, info@tipulooduskool.ee

Ingatsi study trail. Photo: Krista Kingumets