Tour of Alho Pond
Take your children on a tour of Alho Pond!
Parking spaces: Notkopuisto, Sivutie
Route: Notkopuisto Park – Alho Pond – Notkopuisto Park
Length: 800 metres (400-metre path around Alho Pond)
Note: Information boards are located at the beginning and end of the trail around Alho Pond. There are five “Path to a Story” signs along the trail.
Difficulty: Easy, suitable for small children
Direction of travel: Both directions
Description: From Notkopuisto, follow the fitness trail for about 200 metres to the Alhon lampi sign. From the sign, a 400-metre-long path leads around Alhon lampi. The path runs right along the shore of the pond, and there is a bridge over the pond’s drainage ditch. There is also a bench near the bridge. Along the path, there are signs marked ‘Polku tarinaan’ (Path to a story), which have QR codes that can be scanned to access ‘Polku tarinaan’ materials aimed at children.
Identified hazards:
- Rocky areas and roots are slippery when wet.
- The bridge over the ditch may be slippery when wet or icy.
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Information about Alho Pond
Alho Pond (1.9 hectares) is a small pond that belongs to protected habitat types. The pond is classified as a locally valuable area in terms of nature conservation (sl-1).
Among other species, you can see woodpeckers, black woodpeckers, black grouse, hazel grouse, golden plovers and common snipes at the pond. In the past, there were also dippers in the area. In addition, you can see several species of birds. Grey herons and coots stop at the pond to rest during their migration. Plants growing at the pond include lesser spearwort, marsh tea, cottongrass and sedge.
The pond was once part of the Alho farm’s pastureland. In the 1970s and 1980s, the pond area was used for ice hockey in the winter and gymnastics and orienteering in the summer. It was dammed at one time to maintain the water level.
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