National Park Petkeljärvi english Finland’s easternmost national park is an excellent destination for a day trip or Petkeljärvi nature information starting point for a longer trek. Petkeljärvi’s natural scenery includes sandy esker hut and outdoor centre ridges formed during the Ice Age, as well as several pristine lakes and ponds with These facilities are located at Petraniemi crystal clear water. The black-throated diver (which features in the park’s emblem) and open daily May-August. An exhibition breeds by these unspoilt waters, and the work of beavers can be seen in the park’s in the nature information hut spotlights forests. the national park and its natural features, including esker ridges. The outdoor centre sells fishing permits, rents out canoes and rowing boats, provides drinking water, and has a cafe and dormitory accommodation. REGULATIONS FOR VISITORS TO PETKELJÄRVI Visitors MAY: • freely hike, ski, row and canoe around the park • pick berries and mushrooms • light campfires and camp out overnight at the special sites provided • use motor boats on the lakes Petkeljärvi and Valkiajärvi • fish with a simple rod and line or in an ice-hole, except in the ponds of Kuikkalammet, Savulampi and Mustalampi Visitors MAY not: • damage natural features or disturb wildlife Tempting trails Visitors can also use canoes and • drive motor vehicles off road The park has two well-marked round rowing boats in the park. From Petkeljärvi • let pets off lead trails. The 6.5-km Kuikan kierros Trail runs canoeists can paddle along the nearby • light campfires anywhere when forest fire through forest, marshland and lakeside River Koitajoki as far as Lake Koitere and warnings are in effect scenery, passing an old meadow and Patvinsuo National Park. • leave litter running along scenic esker ridges. Signs • damage the facilities provided in the park. along the shorter 3.5-km Harjupolku Trail Please look after the For fuller details of the park regulations explain how esker ridges were formed. environment see: www.outdoors.fi/petkeljarvi> A possible 4-km extension to both trails Visitors are asked to look after their instructions and rules runs along the narrow sandy peninsula of own wastes. There is a waste collection Korkeasärkkä (2 km to the end, returning and sorting point by the outdoor Metsähallitus – national park the same way). Please stay on the marked centre. Safely combustible wastes management trails to help preserve the sensitive soils may also be burnt on campfires, and • Ukko Visitor Centre, Koli National Park: and flora of the park’s esker ridges. organic wastes may be left in the tel. 0205 64 5654, [email protected] Petkeljärvi is also a good starting point park’s compost toilets. Other wastes • For more information: www.outdoors.fi/ for a longer trek such as the 31-km Taitajan should be taken away from the park for petkeljarvi, www.excursionmap.fi taival Trail, the region’s oldest trekking suitable disposal. • Souvenirs and products related to route, which leads to the old village of Finland’s national parks: kauppa. Mekrijärvi. The route is marked with orange luontoon.fi circles, and mainly runs along the crests Petkeljärvi National Park of a succession of ridges in the Petkeljärvi- • Established in 1956 Petkeljärvi Outdoor Centre Putkelanharju esker chain. Four picnic sites • Total area about 6 km2 Information, accommodation, café and with shelters lie along the way. • All of Finland's national parks are rentals (May-August): tel. 041 436 1790; managed by Metsähallitus Natural https://petkeljarvi.com Heritage Services. Photo: Metsähallitus/Jenni Miettunen National Park Petkeljärvi english Ilomantsi, Joensuu, main road 74 5004 Oinassalmi T a i t a ja n T Möhkö a Pieni i Väntsänlampi v Kuikkalampi a l T H e v o nr h a r j u a Pieni Ravajärvi i l Oinaslampi Iso Kuikkalampi Rajasuo Oinasvaara ie nt ve Suuri är lj e Tetrijärvi k t e P Ravajärvi Petkeljärvi-Putkelanharju Natura 2000 -area Peräkangas Petkeljärvi Iukonlahti Oraviniemi Viitalampi Rangers Hut Ahvenlampi Riihilahti Taitajan Taival Trail Pieni Kuikkalampi Heinälampi Keltasilmä Keltasilmä m ierro ,5 k n K s Tra il 6 ika Joutenjärvi K u National Park Mustalampi Petkeljärvi National Park Conservation programme areas Petkeljärvi-Putkelanharju Natura 2000 -area Nature information cabin Särkkäjärvi Information board Parking Kuikkalampi mipuro o m u k T Campfire place Ruunulampi 5 T , a 6 i ta il j ra Cooking shelter a T n os r r a ie T iva K l Lean-to shelter K n T a u r ik ik a il u an K Camping site K ie Savulampi r r o Syväjärvi s Hut to reserve T ra il 6, 5 Trailer parking km Petraniemi Sight Lieksa Nurmes, Restored dugout and trench Jetty Kajaani 6 Eno 514 Kuopio Ilomantsi Möhkö Restaurant Kontiolahti 5004 17 500 Korkeasärkkä Ruununsaari Dry toilet 74 23 494 Saarilahti Joensuu Petkeljärvi Valkiajärvi Recyclig 492 495 Varkaus 494 Hiking route Kaitajärvi Russia Inkerensaari Tohmajärvi Nature trail 6 Road Kitee Imatra, 0 50 km Lappeenranta Lohisalmi © Metsähallitus 2012, © Maanmittauslaitos 1/MML/12 © NLS of Finland 1/MML/12.