LET'S EXPLORE NATURE IN HELSINKI

The Helsinki area offers a suprisingly wide variety of natural attractions, including islands, bird bays, forests and farms. There is hardly any other capital in Europe where nature thrusts itself into the heart of the city as it does in Helsinki.

The Let’s Explore Nature in Helsinki guidebook will enable you to hike around Helsinki and its surrounds on your own.

We have chosen the best sites to cater for a wide range of tastes and expectations. The book presents 27 nature trip destinations in and around Helsinki with detailed maps and directions. You will also find information about characteristic plants and animals, as well as historical facts.

Some of the chapters are available on the Internet as PDF files. Click to the table of contents to see them! Information on these files has been updated in May 2005.

The book is edited by Matti Nieminen and Eero Haapanen.

The printed version of the publication is no longer available.

Table of contents

Map of the sites of interest
Symbols
Nature in Helsinki
Contact Information

City Centre (Töölönlahti Bay, Kaivopuisto Park)
Central Park
Inner Islands (Seurasaari, Korkeasaari Zoo, Mustasaari)
Outer Islands (Harakka, Suomenlinna, Pihlajasaari, Kaunissaari)
Viikki and Vanhankaupunginlahti Bay
Vuosaari (The Kallahti Peninsula, Uutela)
Nuuksio National Park
Sites in the West (Lauttasaari, Laajalahti, Suomenoja, Porkkala)

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See also

Everyman's right (Finnish Environment Institute)
www.outdoors.fi