Kemeri National Park is a national treasure in Latvia. This conservation area of ​​international importance. It was founded in 1997. The park - 38,165 hectares, of which 1954 hectares are in the Gulf of Riga.

Activities of the Kemeri National Park is aimed at fulfillment of the rights and obligations prescribed in the statute book, which is called "The Ķemeri National Park" of 2001. The main objective of the work of the park is to promote economic activity without harming the surrounding world, and the protection of nature, located in the reserve and nature reserves, in order to preserve of unique natural resources of Latvia.

Kemeri National Park comprises 3 zones. This - a buffer zone that surrounds the park. It locals live. II area is protected zone intended for protection against illegal use of land owned by the park. And III zone - central, which is a specially protected area is a nature reserve. Visitors can not visit this place.

At Kemer Park has its own legend. In the XVI century, a local forester Kemer (hence the name of the town of Jurmala) I built a house hotel where resident in the people to make sulfur baths. Already at that time sulfurated springs have been very popular. Then, in the area formed the village of Kemer.

Today on the site of the national park where live about 3, 5 thousand people. The main business of life is fishing.

The main part of the park is covered by forests and swamps. It located in Kemer Great Ķemeri marsh. It played a crucial role in the birth of a large number of the key sources of sulfuric mineral water, which warrant the creation of the resort. In the park, you can watch the dunes and the marvelous beauty of the lake, located near the sea. This - 3 huge lakes - Kaņieris, Sloka and Valguma.

The fauna of the national park is a set of species that are rare in Europe and Latvia. White-backed woodpecker (representative avifauna) - a symbol of the entire national park. This amazing bird lives in forests with high humidity and flooded plains. In addition to short-tailed, live here, and three-toed woodpeckers, black and corncrake. About 237 bird species represented in the park, and 188 of them are bred here. Mammals in the park inhabited by wolves, elk, wild boars, deer and others.

Flora Kemeri is very diverse, and nearly a quarter of plant species from the Latvian Red Book are found in this park. Representatives of the most beautiful forest flora is a European species of orchid - "ladies' shoes." Almost half of the territory of Kemeri National Park is covered by forests. It - deciduous forests dominated by oak and ash, the ancient pine forests on the dunes and wet northern coniferous forest dominated by spruce and pine.

Here you can see traces of the trenches and cemeteries that remain after the First and Second World Wars.

In the west of the park Kemeri turned sandy beaches. The low sand dunes can be seen throughout most of the coastline. Dunes have bizarre forms and shapes. This favors the work of the waves and the wind. But dunes are located away from the sea, rather densely covered with pine forests.

The lively interest among the visitors are two mineral springs. One of them is located at the beginning of the road foundation park. At the gazebo depicts a lizard. It seems to be almost the only object that has been preserved in its original form at the end of the XIX century. The other source is located toad. This gazebo - a sample of the park architecture of the early XX century. Unfortunately, from her absolutely nothing left. The most important thing is that here are located overriding mineral springs Kemer.

The park has a large number of small bridges and paths on which you can walk, get some fresh air and enjoy the splendor of the natural environment of the national park of Kemer.