Nature Close to Helsinki, 3 of 7: Sipoonkorpi National Park



Sipoonkorpi covers 18.57 square kilometers of spruce forest, swamps and old pastureland where Helsinki, Vantaa and Sipoo meet. Marked trails run from Ponu's Heritage Post trail (1.4 km), with six post boxes holding postcards from one forest animal to another, to the rockier Kalkinpolttajan trail (4.8 km) past an old limestone quarry and up to the Högberget lookout. In late summer and fall, anyone can pick wild berries and mushrooms.