Paukjärve campsite

A spacios campsite by Lake Paukjärv with many separate campfire sites. This is campsite with a long history.

Paukjärve campsite lies by Lake Paukjärv in the North Kõrvemaa nature reserve, beside an esker ridge and close to the Kõnnu Suursoo mire, reached by a 1 km forest path from the Kaksiksilla car park on the Soodla River. The quiet shore has a lively history. In the 1920s and 1930s, during Estonia's first independence, the YMCA held summer camps here, and the national basketball and Olympic teams trained at the lake. Later it became a scout camp and then a Soviet pioneer camp, and from 1953 the area was part of a Soviet army artillery range. Today it is a peaceful stop on the Paukjärve nature trail.