Allika hiking trail

• Start and finish: The road of Suuremõisa-Håkabacka
• Length: 1.2 km, partial boardwalk
• Designation: direction indicators, information boards
• Key words: the springs Suurallikas and Lubjakünka/Raviallikas, Lake Prästvike, orchids, avifauna
• Manager: MTÜ Eesti Loodushoiu Keskus (Wildlife Estonia NPO)

We recommend wearing rubber boots during the wet season!

• Try not to leave traces behind when travelling in the nature.
• Camp and make a fire only in places prepared and marked for that. When leaving the camp fire site, make sure the fire is out.
• Foraging (picking berries, mushrooms, nuts) is allowed, except in the conservation zones of Rälby and Hosby off the trails and roads from 15 February to 31 July, on the islets of Rumpo conservation zone and the maritime area within 50 metres from the coastline of the islets from 15 March to 15 July.

Vormsi Island offers various opportunities for an active holiday. A bicycle is a suitable means for getting acquainted with the island. The landscapes, semi-natural communities, biodiversity, cultural heritage and insular remoteness of Vormsi offer an experience for people with different interests.

• In 2001, an overview of the nature of Vormsi and studies carried out about it appeared in “Vormsi ja Haapsalu Tagalahe loodus” (The Nature of Vormsi Island and the Gulf of Haapsalu Tagalaht) that is the fifth number in the series “Estonia Maritima”.
• An ecological study of Lake Prästvike, among other things, was carried out in the course of the project NATURESHIP – “Coastal lagoons in Estonia and in the Central Baltic Sea region”.
• Lake Prästvike and the springs located in the limited management zone of Präst

The protection procedure of the Vormsi Landscape Protection Area is regulated by the Nature Conservation Act and the protection rules of the Vormsi Landscape Protection Area.

Based on the specificity of the protection procedure, the landscape reserve is divided into:

The specificity of Vormsi is the insular remoteness and the cultural heritage characteristic to a former habitat of coastal Swedes.

Vormsi Island that is geologically a bit over 3,000 years old can be conditionally divided into three terrains.

The coastal terrain

• Vormsi Landscape Protected Area was founded in the year 2000 in order to protect the individual landscape of the archipelago of Western Estonia and the endangered cultural heritage landscapes characteristic to the area.
• The area of the reserve is 2,423 ha, from which the sea makes up more than a half.
• Since 1989, Vormsi Island with the surrounding maritime area and islands forms the West Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve. The mission of the biosphere reserve is to direct the balanced development of the area, preserve the life and environment and biodiversity.

A good overview of the events and service providers in the area can be found in the tourist information centre of Jõgeva County in Palamuse and on its website.

In Luua village, visitors are welcome in the manor park, the museum room and the arboretum.

Elistvere study trail (“Bird road”) is located in Elistvere manor park, the length of the trail is 2 km in total and there is an observation tower at the end of the trail. The boardwalk is passable also with a wheelchair and a baby carriage.