Best places to run in Estonia

A central-Estonia mire system whose Männikjärve bog boardwalk and tower make for a classic, accessible bog walk.

Estonia's widest natural waterfall at over 50 m across and 8 m high, with riverside paths leading behind and below the falls.

Europe's first proven meteorite crater, a water-filled bowl encircled by short walking paths through woodland.

Tallinn's 70 ha baroque park around Kadriorg Palace, with formal gardens, ponds and shaded paths an easy walk from the Old Town.

Estonia's smallest national park, a rolling glacial landscape of forested hills and small lakes ideal for varied undulating walks.

A broad 6 m waterfall in a wooded manor park, with riverbank paths crossing two suspension bridges to viewpoints.

A famously leaning, windswept lighthouse reached by a scenic walk along sandy beach and juniper meadow on a remote peninsula.

Estonia's largest national park, a coastal mosaic of bogs, forests, fishing villages and erratic boulders laced with marked trails.

A vast western coastal-meadow and reed-bed park, one of Europe's premier bird areas, with boardwalks and viewing towers.

A beautiful south-Estonian bog with a 5.8 km loop of boardwalk and forest path, open bog lakes and an observation tower.

A 204 ha pine-forest reserve in Tallinn's green Nõmme district, criss-crossed with sandy trails for forest running.

The highest stretch of the Baltic Klint at 55 m, a limestone sea cliff with a clifftop walking route and sweeping Gulf of Finland views.

The 'Nightingale Valley' is a deep primeval valley above the Rõuge lakes with trails winding along steep wooded slopes and viewpoints.

A grand wooded park in the Pühajõgi valley with cliffside paths, a spring cave and a sea-view terrace above the coast.

A bog within the city limits with boardwalk and trail loops, one of Tallinn's largest green areas for quiet health walks.

Rugged 25 m limestone cliffs on the Pakri peninsula, followed by the coastal hiking route past the Pakri lighthouse.

The highest cliff of the western islands at 20 m, a clifftop walk along the Silurian klint with open Baltic views, fine at sunset.

Estonia's best-known summer beach with a long flat sandy promenade and pine Beach Park, ideal for easy seaside running.

A scenic river trail along the Piusa winding past sandstone outcrops and pine forest in Estonia's deep southeast.

Old hand-dug glass-sand caves set in a dune landscape with a circular interpretive path, home to Eastern Europe's largest bat colony.

Estonia's deepest lake (38 m) at the head of a chain of seven lakes, ringed by walking paths through the Rõuge primeval valley.

A huge wilderness of bogs and floodplain forests famous for its 'fifth season' floods, crossed by boardwalk bog trails.

At 318 m it is the highest point in Estonia and the Baltics, a forested hill topped by a 29 m observation tower reached by short woodland paths.

A 22.5 m red sandstone outcrop above the Ahja River, the most iconic riverside cliff in Estonia, reached by easy nature trails.

The best-preserved medieval old town in Northern Europe, a walled maze of cobbled lanes climbing to Toompea Hill viewpoints.

Tartu's historic hill park above the old town, with shaded paths, old bridges and a panorama point over the Emajõgi River.

A karst spring 'witch's well' that famously boils over after heavy rain, set in a karst landscape with short interpretive paths.

A dramatic 30 m limestone klint west of Tallinn with a viewing platform and clifftop trails over the sea and Vääna-Jõesuu beach.

At up to 30 m it is the highest waterfall in the Baltics, tumbling over the Ontika klint with a viewing platform and clifftop path.

One of Estonia's steepest hillsides in the Haanja uplands, a sharp wooded climb popular with walkers seeking real gradient.

Estonia's most famous bog, a 3.5 km boardwalk loop across open mire pools with an 11 m viewing tower an hour from Tallinn.