Beautiful Lake Kermajärvi offers a peaceful paddling and boating setting for independent paddlers.
Lake Kermajärvi is a peaceful paddling destination in the middle of our beautiful national landscape. You can admire the magnificent archipelago landscape scattered across open waters by following the well-known Heinävesi route and its numerous canals. The passage through Heinävesi from Savonlinna to Kuopio is considered one of Finland’s most beautiful waterways. Kermajärvi is a nationally valuable landscape area and nature reserve.
- A peaceful paddling and boating destination for independent visitors.
- There are three excursion harbours in the nature reserve. Nearby services for boaters.
- Good fishing destination.
- The Heinävesi water route, which is known as the most beautiful of its kind in Finland, crosses Lake Kermajärvi.
Activities and trails
In addition to paddling or rowing, you can also sail or go motorboating on the lake.
Kermajärvi is an good fishing destination. Professional fishing is also practised there. The fish species in the area include e.g. vendace and trout.
A ski trail crosses the ice of Lake Kermajärvi from Heinävesi to Karvio.
What else is there to see
Picking berries and mushrooms, snowmobiling
Nature
Kermajärvi is a nationally significant landscape and nature conservation area, valuable for the protection of the unbuilt inland water shores, archipelago, and open water nature, as well as forests.
Nature at the siteVisitor's checklist
The destination is a nature reserveEveryman’s Right are not valid as such in the nature reserve.
Temporary camping in the area is allowedTemporary camping with Everyman’s Right is allowed.
Make campfires only in designated sitesDuring a wildfire warning, making fires is prohibited.
Remember to bring a trash bagThere is no recycling point in the area. Bring a trash bag and take the trash with you.
Always keep pets on a leashDog waste should be cleaned away from the paths.