Pēterezers Nature Trail
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- Distance
- 2.16 mi
- Elevation gain
- 46 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 46 ft
- Max elevation
- 162 ft
- TrailRank
- 27
- Min elevation
- 45 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 59 minutes
- Coordinates
- 539
- Uploaded
- March 18, 2019
- Recorded
- July 2018
near Sīkrags, Talsu novads (Latvijas Republika)
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Itinerary description
Pēterezers nature trail is specific due to it’s marshy lowlands, which interchange with sandy hills overgrown with pine-tree forests. Here you will find out not only of flora and fauna present along the route, but also a tiny bit of a history and geography that relates to the area. The trail is also used as a cognitive trail by the Nature educational centre “Slītere” of the Nature Protection Agency.
Starting the trail, the route goes as a forest trail crossing the former “narrow gauge railway” or the so called ‘Little-train’ track of North-Kurzeme which in the past connected Dundaga and coastal villages with Ventspils and Talsi and operated between 1916 and 1962. The route continues through a unique nature formation that does not exist anywhere else in the world - the system of dunes and lowlands (kangari and vigas), which were formed 9000 years ago, when the Baltic Sea was emerging in the area. Here you shall face few quite steep ups and downs and long stair stages. When more than half of the route is behind, the trail finally comes to it’s most interesting and prettiest point – a wooden boardwalk along the marshy vigs named Pīļu Dīķa (the Ducks’ pond) and Pēterezera (Peter’s lake), which is the home of rare plant and animal species, e.g. the European pond terrapin (swamp turtle - Emys orbicularis). The trail finishes with a well-trodden path through the pine-tree forest.
Starting the trail, the route goes as a forest trail crossing the former “narrow gauge railway” or the so called ‘Little-train’ track of North-Kurzeme which in the past connected Dundaga and coastal villages with Ventspils and Talsi and operated between 1916 and 1962. The route continues through a unique nature formation that does not exist anywhere else in the world - the system of dunes and lowlands (kangari and vigas), which were formed 9000 years ago, when the Baltic Sea was emerging in the area. Here you shall face few quite steep ups and downs and long stair stages. When more than half of the route is behind, the trail finally comes to it’s most interesting and prettiest point – a wooden boardwalk along the marshy vigs named Pīļu Dīķa (the Ducks’ pond) and Pēterezera (Peter’s lake), which is the home of rare plant and animal species, e.g. the European pond terrapin (swamp turtle - Emys orbicularis). The trail finishes with a well-trodden path through the pine-tree forest.
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