Rüütli campfire site’s observation tower (700 m from the parking)

The observation tower is located 700 m from Rüütli campfire site’s parking lot. The tower offers the view on the varied landscape of Rüütli bog. Geese and cranes stop in this place on their migration route.

Near the Rüütli campfire site in the Muraka mire complex of Alutaguse National Park, 700 metres from the car park, a 13-metre tower with its top platform at 10 metres gives a superb view over Rüütli bog, a relict lake ringed with mud hollows, and wooded bog islands. Flocks of geese and cranes rest here on migration, and sometimes golden eagles, ospreys or merlins can be seen circling. The tower lies on the Kotka hiking trail, which also crosses sand ridges left as Lake Peipus retreated. Up to four tents may be pitched at the campfire site.