Parks and green areas

The parks built by the municipality of Tuusula offer a wonderful environment for relaxing and enjoying the peace and quiet of nature. Popular parks often also provide facilities for play and exercise.

Tuusula has 55 playgrounds in parks. In addition, there are playgrounds in the yards of schools and daycare centres that can be used in the evenings and on weekends outside of their opening hours.

Dog parks are areas reserved for dogs to exercise, where they can run freely and meet other dogs. There are five dog parks in Tuusula.

The municipality of Tuusula has allotments available for rent in four areas. There are also allotment boxes available for rent in the Puustellinmetsä park.

The municipality of Tuusula cultivates landscape fields around Tuusula every year. Landscape fields bring joy to both people and the surrounding wildlife.

Tuusula's three carpet washing stations are freely available to all residents during the summer.

The maintenance of green areas includes parks, playgrounds, forests, street green areas, landscape fields, stormwater structures and protective green areas.

The Ruotsinkylä research forest is located near the capital region. There, researchers study foreign tree species, the adaptation of downy birch to a changing climate, the spread of root rot, the seed yield of native trees, and various issues related to forest breeding. Read more on the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) website!

Everyone has the right to use nature regardless of who owns or controls the area. Exercising this right must not cause more than minor inconvenience to the landowner, land use or nature. Read more on the Finnish Environment Institute's website!

The municipality of Tuusula owns approximately 900 hectares of commercial forest and approximately 480 hectares of park forest.

Volunteer work is voluntary activity carried out by residents for the benefit of public areas in Tuusula. Residents and associations can organise volunteer work, for example, to collect rubbish and remove invasive species.