Korpinkierros with its 7 km circulates in the southwest of Nuuksio National Park and is marked with a yellow sign. As you can see on the map the trail leads through forests and along lakes.
-> The official page of Nuuksio National Park
A little different nature compared to the other hikes of Nuuksio National Park you find along the 2 km long circular trail Nahkiaispolku. The forest here is quite wet and everything is very green.
The trail partly goes up steep slopes. Some have stairs, some not. But in general it is a very nice hike!
-> The official page of Nuuksio National Park
My second featured trail in Nuuksio National Park is the Punarinnan Kierros. As you can see it is quite short with its 2 km and declared as an easy trail. If you are in the park with younger kids, this is a good option to bring them in touch with nature. They will become those who take care of the nature in future. It can not be too early to start showing them the value of it…
I hope you enjoy the trail as I did. On the photos you can see that it is a comfortable trail. Have fun!
-> The official page of Nuuksio National Park
In Nuuksio National Park just outside of Espoo there are very fine hiking options. Four different hikes of moderate length are featured by signs. During my visit to the park I managed to make all of them and here I want to show yout one of them, the Haukankierros (Hawk’s Trail) with its 4 km in length. As you can see on the sign, it has some ups and downs giving you the chance to have views over the surrounding forest. I really like the park as it combines so many different features of the parks around southern Finland, but still has its own characteristics.
If you are in Helsinki or Espoo for only a short time, you should take the chance to come here and do some hiking, check out the Hawk’s Trail…
-> The official page of Nuuksio National Park
Well, it was the last full day before I had to be at the ferry in Helsinki for the long trip back to Germany. 30 hours on the ferry meant I had to hike to move my body before being ‘trapped’ on it. So I picked Nuuksio Nationalpark as it is pretty convenient to be already in Espoo, which is just outside of Helsinki. My expectations were not really high to find beautiful spots so very close to Finlands capital, but I gave it a try. I arrived in Nuuksio late in the evening and decided to stay sleeping in my car to be close by in the early morning. My ferry left in the evening, so much time to explore the park next day before leaving the country. Right with arrival I noticed that city, traffic and noise seems something far from the park. Here it was calm nice and beautiful. A great place to be. Only the density of services like benches, bbq places was much higher, the trails a little wider, a sign that the city folks come here during weekends. But for me it was really fine.
Signs showed me that there are three featured circular trails. After almost three weeks of hiking I decided to make them all that day. Time was enough. So I had a cosy sleep and the next morning prepared myself after breakfast for my hike.
As usual my first visit was to the visitor center. Here it is always very easy to find good information about the park, its nature and fauna. Also they sell nice souvenirs. As you might have noticed, there is a strange grey rat on the logo. But in fact it is the very cute little Siberian Flying Squirrel which roams in the parks environment. I didn’t know before investigating my trip that in Europe animals like that exist…. travelling educates…
Let me put my hikes in seperate blog entries, here some general images of the park…
This is the Visitor Center, go inside!
Inside you can get a lot of information.
The ranger said that this tree is the most photographed one in the whole park 🙂
Late August / September is mushroom time… also in Nuuksio National Park. Here we are in a protected area, so leave them, especially the ones on the photo. They are poisoned!
Bumble bees do their work also in Finland.
Forest with Nordic moss.
-> The official page of Nuuksio National Park
