Lääne-Viru County: stories, campsites, saunas and trails
Things to see and do in Lääne-Viru County: 265 stories tied to real places – legends, history and lost places – and 43 places to camp, sleep, walk and warm up in the forests.
Stories from Lääne-Viru County
Ghost story 42 all over Estonia →
- Betsy of Palmse manor
- The black lady of Sagadi manor
- The veiled woman of Viitna lake
- The midnight lights of Porkuni lake
- Whispers in the cupboard at Rägavere manor
- The white lady of Kiltsi castle
- The dead ladies baking at Muuga manor
- The lady in white stockings at Väike-Maarja churchyard
- The headless man of Udriku
- The cruel junker of Tapa manor
- The money-counters in Rakvere castle cellar
- The white runner of Kalmuneeme hill, Vihula
- The restless dead under Pikk Street, Rakvere
- The white woman on Simuna churchyard wall
- The spirit foal of Väike-Maarja churchyard
- The singing monks of Viru-Nigula graveyard
- The two-headed watcher of Karkuse manor
- The shape-shifting church warden of Viru-Jaagupi
- The spirit that dragged sledges back at Lammasmägi
- The sleepwalking girls of the Ärina woods
- The angel of Võhmuta manor cemetery
- The lady with the lantern at the Küti rowan
- The ghosts that walk to Sarapuu hill
- The dead baron on Paasvere chapel hill
- The white foal of the Tõikvere inn pond
- White horses and cellar maidens in Porkuni castle
- The dead lord as a white dog at Metsiku
- The revenant shot with a silver bullet at Tapa
- The lady from the sea at Mustoja beach
- The singing swan-woman of Lake Üllikjärv, Võsu
- The girl knitting a dead man's stocking by the Valgejõgi
- The phantom coach at the Valgejõgi bridge
- The silver brooch in Lake Kolu
- The woman in white in the Rägavere peat pits
- The white figure in the Loobu river
- The two proud ladies of the Vergi stream
- The dead barons' card game in Simuna church
- The voice on the steps of Kiltsi manor
- The noseless sexton and Rassi Jaak of Vihula
- The knock on the cabin door of a Võsu-built ship
- The white-clad maidens of the Kissa spruce wood
- 'Kai can't get home!': the voice in the Tapa woods
Legend 34 all over Estonia →
- Ehalkivi: the giant's boulder
- Tarvas, the aurochs of Rakvere
- The devil's footprint at Letipea
- The Woman Stone of Unukse
- The proud fisherman's daughter of Toolse
- Kalevipoeg's horse and the Red Bog
- The knight of Aseri and the herd of oxen
- The haldjas who named Haljala church
- The werewolf of Näo village
- The vanishing town inside Ebavere hill
- The rooster spirit and the drowned royal coach of Äntu
- The nuns turned to stone at Palmse
- Kalevipoeg's furrows at Neeruti
- Emumägi, heaped up by Kalevipoeg's horse
- Edru Kaanjärv, the bottomless pond
- Lobi, the village the plague missed
- How Pariisi got its name
- Naistevälja, the women's field
- Seljamägi, sand from Kalevipoeg's lap
- Soolikaoja, the devil's dog's gut
- Kellavere hill and the sunken bell tower
- Bishop's Hill at Piisupi
- Raki's blood: how Rakvere got its name
- Luussaare, the island of bones
- Rajaküla, the village that wore out a beggar
- Ao: the brushwood men and the log men
- Siberi, the poorest place near Kunda
- Nabudi, the lake of the bloody ram's head
- The spirit that moved into Lake Tudu
- Mustjärv, the lake that came with three black oxen
- The lords of Jäneda lake greet the maidens of Viitna
- The money pot of Rahaaugumägi
- The count's lost treasure of Neeruti
- The Edru men and their famous foolishness
Mystery or the unexplained 5 all over Estonia →
True crime 11 all over Estonia →
- Hans, the young werewolf of Idavere
- Petrol against the wall at Vao
- The poison trial of Põlula manor
- Captured in Aegviidu, shot by the Tapa bog
- Kongla Ann, the Pada witch buried outside the churchyard
- Hannibal's last raid at Rakvere castle
- Gunfire at the gas workers' summer days, Letipea
- Beheaded men under Pikk Street, Rakvere
- A lone constable and two horse thieves near Porkuni
- The murder of Provost Hoffmann at Viru-Jaagupi
- Border guards marooned on Uhtju island
Smugglers, spies & escapes 3 all over Estonia →
Shipwreck or sea mystery 5 all over Estonia →
Battle or uprising 5 all over Estonia →
Fire, flood or disaster 8 all over Estonia →
Famous life 10 all over Estonia →
- Young Arvo Pärt cycles to the loudspeaker
- Piibe, Karl Ernst von Baer's birthplace
- Krusenstern's last voyage ends at Kiltsi
- Anton Hansen's school days at Väike-Maarja
- Georg Lurich, the strong boy of Väike-Maarja
- Wrangel's last voyage ends at Viru-Jaagupi
- Jõepere, where Kreutzwald was born a serf
- H. G. Wells hides out at Kallijärve
- Ao manor, where Faehlmann was born
- Midsummer in the Roma camp on the Rakvere town pasture
First or record 2 all over Estonia →
Film or book location 8 all over Estonia →
Remembered by people who were there 3 all over Estonia →
Castle or fort 3 all over Estonia →
Ancient hillfort 10 all over Estonia →
Manor 43 all over Estonia →
- building of the Rakvere Theatre
- Nõmme Manor
- Vihula Manor Park
- Essu Manor
- Kunda Manor
- Lehtse Manor
- Moe Manor
- Müüriku Manor
- Pada Manor
- Piibe Manor
- Vohnja Manor
- Aaspere Manor
- Sagadi Manor
- Palmse Manor
- Mõdriku Manor
- Muuga Manor
- Jäneda Manor
- Kalvi Manor
- Ao Manor
- Põlula Manor
- Imastu Manor
- Jootme Manor
- Selja Manor
- Kohala Manor
- Salla Manor
- Võhmuta Manor
- Vaeküla Manor
- Määri Manor
- Piira Manor
- Moora Manor
- Pudivere Manor
- Aru Manor
- Einmanni Manor
- Kaarli Manor
- Karitsa Manor
- Kiltsi Manor
- Kõrve Manor
- Neeruti Manor
- Porkuni Manor
- Tammiku Manor
- Vao Manor
- Viru-Nigula parsonage manor
- Kärsa Manor
Folk song 2 all over Estonia →
Ancient site 6
Historic town 1
Landscape 2
Memorial or cemetery 16
- Rakvere juudi kalmistu
- Monument to the War of Independence in Väike-Maarja
- Monument to the War of Independence in Rakvere
- Monument to the War of Independence in Kannastiku
- Viru-Jaagupi Cemetery
- Monument to the War of Independence in Simuna
- Palermo punase terrori ohvrite mälestuskivi
- Rakvere Nõukogude poolel hukkunute matmispaik
- Monument to the War of Independence in Haljala
- battle of Rägavere monument
- Monument to the War of Independence in Viru-Nigula
- Monument to the War of Independence in Kadrina
- Monument to the War of Independence in Kunda
- Jakob Liivi monument
- Rannu battle memorial
- Võduvere War of Independence memorial
Archive documentary 6
Historic recording 6
- Home-place stories: Rakvere, 1970
- In Kalevipoeg's country: Rakvere, Kaarli and Jõepere, 1970
- A working Christmas Eve in Kunda harbour, 1996
- Eduard Vilde's monument unveiled in his home kolkhoz, 1965
- Sculpture of forest brother Ruuben Lambur unveiled at Sõmeru, 2025
- With a microphone in Väike-Maarja district, 1959
Sacred stone, spring or grove 7
Erratic boulder 8
Church or chapel 11
Historic building 1
Lighthouse 3
Lost village 3
Protected tree 1
Camp, sleep, walk and warm up
Campsites 3 all over Estonia →
Free forest huts 1 all over Estonia →
Saunas 2 all over Estonia →
Hiking trails 5 all over Estonia →
Nature study trails 10 all over Estonia →
- Altja nature and culture historical trail (3 km)
- Beaver trail (1 km)
- Käsmu nature and culture historical trail (4.2 km)
- Oandu heritage trail (3,4 km)
- Oandu old-growth forest nature trail (4.7 km)
- Oandu plant trail (1 km)
- Ojaäärse forest trail (3.5 km)
- Sagadi-Oandu Forest Fairy Tales Trail (5,6 km)
- Seljamäe study trail (7 km)
- Viitna nature study trail (7 km)
Water trails 1
Cycling trails 1 all over Estonia →
Viewpoints 2
Campfire sites 10 all over Estonia →
Rest stops 5
Visitor centres 3
Photo spots
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