What is interesting for the Bakov Forest Park for tourists?

The place for an ideal holiday can be found without leaving Moscow. Here is a century old forest consisting of firs, pines and birches, and places for picnics, and ponds, and sports facilities. Shrouded in mystery and legend, the place is the Meshchersky Nature Park, based on the territory of the Bakov Forest Park. Why shrouded in mysteries and legends, you ask. Because this is a historical place, and finding him an equal is difficult. The forest park existed at the time of Ivan the Terrible, he knew Napoleon, and the Patriotic War swept through him, exposing him to the cutting of ancient trees. In the settlement of Peredelkino, built in the Bakov forest park, poets and artists, writers and artists lived and worked for decades. But can such a layer of history be without secrets and legends?

Meshchersky Park

There was a natural park Meshchersky in 2007 as a private structure. The name of the park was the same as the nearby village, located within the boundaries of Moscow, one and a half kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. From that time began to put things in order in places covered with legends, but over the centuries turned into dumps and swamps. Paradoxically, the biggest harm to the park forest park was not caused in times of turmoil and world wars, but by local prosperous landowners since the 90s of last century.

In 2010, Sukovo marsh, located in the center of the park, was cleared. At present, it appears in its pristine beauty with a restored landscape.

Sports Park

What is the park interesting for tourists? In summer, you can ride a bicycle, rented, along forest paths or relax on the beach by the pond, in winter a beautiful cross-country ski trail awaits lovers of this sport. At present, children's playgrounds are organized here, rope Panda Park is created, cycling routes are laid. Meshchersky Park of the Bakovy Forest Park is an ideal place for sports. There are regularly held sports festivals with relay races and competitions. Alleys and paths between the trees are an ideal place for lovers of Scandinavian walking.

For those who come to the park with their pets, there is agility - a special platform for walking and training of domestic dogs. The only rule that dog owners should not forget is the mandatory muzzle on the animal and the leash.

Walking with a bicycle

For lovers of cycling there is a wonderful place in Meshchersky Park - a bicycle path four kilometers long. Every kilometer on this route there are complexes of shells for cardio and strength training. You can simply travel around the Bakovy forest park by bike along the paths between the trees and meet amazing stories on your way. For example, you can see the famous burial mounds of Napoleon or the places where War and Peace and Heavenly Snowshoot were filmed. Even Peredelkino is in bicycle access. And if you really want to, you can drive a bicycle to the lost and found later decades of the grave of Malevich.

There are two rental points in the park, in which you can take any bicycles: sports, walking, bicycles, fetbike. If you come for a walk with children, you can rent a children's bicycle, and for kids - a velorzrelo or a bicycle trailer. Rental points are very convenient, one at the entrance to the park from the side of Meshchersky pond, the second - from the side of Novomeshtersky travel.

What to do in the winter?

In winter you can go for snowboarding, skating and skiing in the Bakov forest park. Here is laid the track for cross-country skiing, which runs along an almost flat terrain without descents and rises. The professionals in cross-country skiing believe that this is a very good, high-quality walking track on which sufficient aerobic loads are possible. Usually, on weekdays, wishing to ride on the track is not enough, in contrast to the days off. Learn to ride here come adults and children on weekends. All along the route there are posters with information about the route. The circle is nine kilometers long, including a loop around the Meshchersky pond of the Bakov forest park.

A cross-country ski run is prepared using a special machine. Retrak prepares the track before the weekend, training and after a snowfall. Everything depends on the snow, the thickness of its layer and the condition of the ski track. For normal operation of the retractor, the thickness of the snow layer should be 15-20 cm. As already mentioned, the rental points are operating in the park. In winter, here you can take for adults and children cross-country skiing, poles, ski boots of different sizes.