Isojärvi National Park

Isojärvi National Park is an ideal destination for a hiker looking for peaceful forest and lake landscape. Isojärvi National Park is a small wilderness-like area, where forest and lake landscapes alternate. There are long narrow lakes and rift valleys, formed in faults in the bedrock, which makes the terrain difficult at some places. The core part of the National Park is the continuous land area on the southern side of Lake Isojärvi.

Rugged hills and deep ravines alternate in the landscape of the Isojärvi National Park. The landscape, which is characterised by steep terrain, was formed 200 million years ago as the Earth’s crust was fractured into fissure valleys stretching from northwest to southeast. The last Ice Age smoothed the rocks and moved large boulders but the existence of the fissure valleys prevented the formation of eskers. Vahtervuori, the highest point in the national park, rises 219 metres above sea level and about 100 metres above the surface of Lake Isojärvi.

For more information about Isojärvi National Park: https://www.luontoon.fi/en/destinations/isojarvi-national-park

Photo: Maija MIkkola – Visit Finland