Salajõe rest stop

The rest stop is at the edge of Salajõe Landscape Reserve. Salajõe is the largest karst area in Lääne county.

Salajõe rest stop lies on the edge of the Salajõe landscape reserve at Vedra village in Lääne County, beside one of Estonia's strangest rivers. The Salajõgi begins at Lake Leide, then vanishes underground for 1.3 km before reappearing, making it the third largest underground river in northern Estonia and the centre of Lääne County's largest karst area. In dry spells only a few litres per second trickle through, but at high water the river rises up to the highway, floods its karst valley into a temporary lake and bursts from many springs and from the Tiberna hole, a sinkhole up to 20 m wide.