🌳 Sparrow Hills Eco-trail

Wooden boardwalks and stairs down the slope of the Sparrow Hills, through forest with springs.

The Sparrow Hills were declared a natural monument in 1987 and a nature reserve in 1998.
It is Moscow's only protected natural area where a natural broadleaf forest survives so close to the centre.
The forest is mostly linden, oak, maple, birch and ash, whose roots hold the steep landslide slopes.
Long-eared owls, ravens and tawny owls live here, species from the Moscow Red Book.
The reserve has the Big and Small Andreyevsky Ponds, named after the neighbouring monastery.

Part of these routes