Lemmenjoki National Park
Lemmenjoki is a national park located in the north of Finland in Lapland. The park is named the same as the river flowing through it, the name of which means "River of Love". From Finland's largest park, tourists can expect virgin forests of firs, pines, birches, as well as mountains with high hills, swamps, with a large number of berries on them. Since its creation in 1956, the boundaries of the park have changed many times, currently the park area is 2,850 km2.
Next to the Lemmenjoki National Park is another nature conservation facility, the Evre-Anarjokka Park, which belongs to Norway. This proximity has allowed for an increase in the number of tourists, so that approximately 10,000 tourists visit the park per year. The park will be interesting for hiking enthusiasts.
In the main area of Lemmenjoki Park, hiking trails have been laid, on which there are abandoned or rented houses, there are places for bonfires, everything is done to make life easier for tourists. here you can see virgin nature, Arctic landscapes, Ravadaskengas waterfall. You can also hunt reindeer in the park, and gold diggers appear here in the summer, because there are about 40 places where the authorities have allowed gold mining. Every year there is a competition among gold diggers.
Flora and fauna of Lemmenjoki Park
The basis of Lemmenjoki Park consists of areas with northern taiga and forest tundra. There are many rare and protected plants here, among which it is worth noting: black sedge, arnica, northern grozdovnik, marsh saxifrage, basilisnik, Hudson Bay sedge, Alpine cuff.
The fauna of the Lemmenjoki Nature Reserve is no less rich, and is usually found in the northern regions of Europe. Among the animals you can meet a brown bear, a wolf, among the birds there are many jays, woodpeckers, pincers, as well as migratory birds: humming geese and hissing swans. The wolverine is the symbol of the park. But the kings of these lands are still graceful deer, which used to be heavily hunted here, as evidenced by over 700 traps found two hundred years old. At the moment, there is a deer nursery in the park, which is home to 7,000 reindeer.
