Pyhä-Häkki National Park

Old pine and spruce forest and bogs in Central Finland

Old Scots pine and Norway spruce copses, which started growing when Finland was still under Swedish rule, stand beside bogs that make up half of the park. It is the largest remaining area of virgin forest in the southern half of Finland.

Finland · Central Finland Est. 1956 Size 13 km² Protected area category: IUCN II

Signature sights

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    Old-growth pine and spruce copses

    Scots pine and Norway spruce that began growing under Swedish rule, in the south's largest virgin forest.
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    Kotaneva

    A bog area joined to the park in 1982.

Where it is

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