Männikjärve bog study trail’s observation tower (ca 2.3 km from the parking)

The observation tower is located in the middle of the boardwalk and offers a view of the entire 210 ha Männikjärve bog.

Halfway along the boardwalk across Männikjärve bog in the Endla Nature Reserve, about 2.3 km from the Tooma car park, stands a 7-metre wooden tower, open at the top, with a bench on its lower platform. From it you see the whole 210-hectare bog, its pools curving in an arc round the bog's centre and its stunted pines. Tooma, where the trail starts, is where scientific study of Estonian mires began in 1910. Come early on a summer morning, when mist lies over the pools.