Sunset Trail
Nature trails, Accessible to parents with baby-strollers, Accessible toilet, Partly accessible
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Description:
A really scenic trail, which starts at the White Dune and finishes at the Sun bridge, stretching along the coast just several steps from the beach. Here you will see lots of peculiarly shaped trees – pines with branches the same length as the trunk bending upwards and downwards, trees with double tops, a birch with five trunks, the so-called wolf pines with roots exposed by the wind, as well as 20 dune forest stately pines (some even 200 years old!). A viewing platform, whcih is located at the start of the trail on the 18 m high sand outcrop of the White Dune, reveals a fantastic landscape of the coast, as well as meanders of the Inčupe River and its estuary to the sea. It should be noted that the length of the wooden boardwalk is about 1 km and after that the trail continues along a well-trodden forest path, which is not accessible to wheelchairs users.
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Location:
Saulkrasti
Suggested starting point:
Parking lot at the White Dune
GPS coordinates:
Lat:57.23367, Lon:24.39358
Hiking time:
1,5 h (one direction)
Distance:
3,6 km (one direction), incl. wooden boardwalk ~ 1 km
Marking:
Baltic Coastal Hiking Trail marking can be followed, the trail itself has no specific marking
Trail surface:
Wooden boardwalk, path
Type:
Point-to-point
Getting there:
With a car or with a bus. With a train till Saulkrasti.
Trail administrator:
Saulkrasti County Municipality, T: +371 25767651, E: pasts@saulkrasti.lv
Info:
Saulkrasti Tourism Information Centre, 13b Ainažu Street, Saulkrasti, T: +371 67952641, tic@saulkrasti.lv, www.visitsaulkrasti.lv
Closest shops, gas stations:
Saulkrasti
Slope:
At some stretches the slope exceeds 8%. At the start of the trail just before the wooden boardwalk the ascent is significant – 20%, but may be overcome with the help of an assistant.
Watch the trail video:
Description:
A really scenic trail, which starts at the White Dune and finishes at the Sun bridge, stretching along the coast just several steps from the beach. Here you will see lots of peculiarly shaped trees – pines with branches the same length as the trunk bending upwards and downwards, trees with double tops, a birch with five trunks, the so-called wolf pines with roots exposed by the wind, as well as 20 dune forest stately pines (some even 200 years old!). A viewing platform, whcih is located at the start of the trail on the 18 m high sand outcrop of the White Dune, reveals a fantastic landscape of the coast, as well as meanders of the Inčupe River and its estuary to the sea. It should be noted that the length of the wooden boardwalk is about 1 km and after that the trail continues along a well-trodden forest path, which is not accessible to wheelchairs users.
Accessibility
Facilities
Rules to follow
Download the GPX of the trail
In order to open the GPX file with the trail route on a mobile phone or computer, please install one of the hiking apps or maps, e.g., Wikiloc, Outdooractive, ViewRanger, OS Maps or any other GPX file reading programme or application.
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