It is important that you get as much information as possible about your hiking destination in advance and prepare for your trip thoroughly.
Knowing your route and sticking to it and knowing what the weather and warnings in effect (ilmatieteenlaitos.fi) has in store, will help make your trip a success.
Make sure you pack a first-aid kit. If you face an emergency on your hike, e.g. get lost, get injured or observe wildfire, call 112 and report an emergency. More information on how to act in an emergency.
Mobile telephones work quite well in Torronsuo National Park, except in some areas in the park where cliffs or forest block signals. Download the 112 Finland application (112.fi) to your phone.
It is good to bring a map if you take a tour of Piippurinsuo in the eastern part of the park. The brochure map (pdf, 2.3 Mb, julkaisut.metsa.fi) of the park is enough for other marked trails.
Dress for hiking in colorful clothes and according to the weather. Because Torronsuo Mire is wet, especially during the spring and autumn floods, rubber boots are needed even when walking on the duckboards. In the forests on the islands, and on the southern edge of the mire, snow stays longer than in the open centre.
There is no tap water available in the National Park, or cafés or shops either, so it is wise to pack picnic food and a water bottle. During the birds' migration, binoculars and a guide book on birds are useful to have.
In the summer, hikers get to know the mire's abundance of bugs. Stopping on the duckboards visitors find that there are countless mosquitoes, flies and horse-flies living on the mire. Choosing a windy day for visiting open Torronsuo Mire saves you from the bugs' attack.
Please note that there is no paper in the toilets.

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