Hüpassaare campfire site

The campfire site is located in the hometown of Mart Saar, the founder of Estonian national choral music, and welcomes all hikers – even those unfamiliar with choral music and organ playing.

Hüpassaare campfire site is in Soomaa National Park, on a wooded meadow grazed by sheep at the start of the Hüpassaare study trail. This is the home ground of Mart Saar, the composer who founded Estonian national choral music. He is said to have walked from his farm to the nearby bog to swim in its dark pools and find inspiration, and the M. Saar house museum is close by. The study trail leads out onto the bog to the same pool, where people still swim today. The site lies on the RMK Oandu–Aegviidu–Ikla route; in spring floods the forest roads to it can be hard to drive.