Pirkanmaa Walking Trails

Saarijärvi Fishing Pier is a short point-to-point walk of about 0.8 km along Lake Saarijärvi’s long fishing pier and the south-shore boardwalks in Koskue, beside Highway 3 between Jalasjärvi and Parkano in Pirkanmaa. The line is catalogued in Parkano for trip planning, while the swimming beach, water monitoring, and many shore structures sit in Kurikka’s administrative beach pages. For EU bathing water status, sampling dates, and the clearest operational notes on the beach and access, City of Kurikka – Saarijärvi beach (Jalasjärvi) is the place to check first(1). Visit Suupohja summarises the 200-metre fishing pier built for accessible angling, the 700 metres of boardwalk on the south shore, and the shelter with a kitchenette at the south end of the pier plus a fish-cleaning station at the north end(2). Visit Kurikka describes an accessible lean-to and a short accessible boardwalk from the pier, with a dry toilet along the boardwalk route that is not fully accessible(3). City of Parkano points walkers to LIPAS and the municipal map service for other maintained trails and lean-tos in the municipality(4). Along the mapped walk you quickly pass Saarijärven uimaranta and Saarijärvi Beach on the sandy EU-monitored shore, then the Saarijärvi kalastuspaikka on the pier. A few hundred metres along the line you reach Saarijärvi Open Campfire Hut and, farther south along the boardwalk, Saarijärvi Open Campfire Hut 2; the Saarijärvi Fishing Laavu sits toward the south end of the mapped segment. Together these give anglers and families places to pause, light a fire where rules allow, and watch the shallow, humic water typical of the Ostrobothnian lake type described by local fishing sources(5). Walking the pier and boardwalk is free. If you plan to fish from the pier or elsewhere on the lake, Jalasjärven kalastuskunta sells day and three-hour permits and publishes lake rules—motor use on boats is prohibited, and the association stocks salmonids for recreational fishing(5).