Lahemaa National Park · Sports & events

Lahemaa has no professional club of any kind. The nearest top-flight football is in Tallinn, roughly 75–80 km west, where FC Flora, FCI Levadia, Nõmme Kalju and Nõmme United all play in the ten-team A. Le Coq Premium liiga.

Estonia's long trail starts at Oandu in Lahemaa and finishes 370 km later at Ikla on the Latvian border, in seven sections of 28 to 74 km. Waymarked white-red-white with kilometre posts, and strung with campsites, campfire sites, forest huts and visitor centres the whole way.

9.5 km along the prehistoric Seljaku road through old-growth forest under the Koljaku–Oandu terrace, walkable or rideable, with campsites at either end and parking for about 30 cars in total. Skied in winter. There and back is a full day; one way needs a lift.

Lahemaa is flat and largely gravel, and the gaps between Palmse, Sagadi, Altja and Võsu are 5–15 km — the right scale for a bike and the wrong scale for walking. Sagadi rents equipment; the forest tracks suit a hybrid rather than a road bike.

The bays here are shallow and sandy, so they warm faster than the open Baltic and July and August are the realistic swimming months. Võsu has the only lifeguarded beach; Käsmu and Altja have shore you can walk into, with nobody watching.