Hiking route (educational trail) near the Christmas Battle Museum Trail

The approximately 7 km long hiking route – the educational trail can be started at the Christmas Battle Museum, where there is a car park and toilets. It is worth taking a map or a photocopy of it with you. The trail is marked along its entire length. It can be walked in different seasons – in summer, autumn, when the leaves are turning color, or in spring, when the primroses and other spring flowers are blooming. It should be taken into account that there are poor mobile communications in the vicinity of the trail. The difficulty level of the trail is easy, but you should take into account the time needed to walk it and get to know all the objects. Surface – forest roads, trails, natural surface, gravel roads. Starting from the Mangaļi Houses in a clockwise direction, it is worth walking the trail not along the gravel road, but along the German Rampart section, which extends the route by about half a kilometer. There are wooden bridges over the ditches. Be careful, because in wet weather they can be slippery.

There are 18 stops along the route, which are equipped with information boards:

• The first line of fortifications of the Russian army – the so-called “Russian Rampart”;
• 3. The starting positions of the Courland Latvian Riflemen Regiment for the Christmas Battles attack;
• Headquarters of the United Latvian Riflemen Division at the beginning of the Christmas battles;
• Russian Army artillery positions;
• 4. Exit positions of the Vidzeme Latvian Riflemen Regiment for the Christmas Battles attack;
• 1. Daugavgrīva Latvian Riflemen Regiment's starting positions for the Christmas Battles attack;
• Neutral zone;
• Barbed wire fences;
• The first line of fortifications of the German army – the so-called “German Wall”;
• A water intake point set up by German army soldiers;
• Artillery shell explosion pits;
• The German army's rear fortification system;
• Viewable positions, bunkers, trenches, bomb craters, memorial stones, etc.