Eskers, lakes, mires, forests - all typical features of Central Finland’s nature can be found in Leivonmäki National Park. You can familiarise yourself with all this on nature trails in the park during a single visit. The most rugged forests of the park are located in Syysniemi, at the northern tip of the area. Hietajärvenkangas around Selänpohja and the Joutsniemi area are home to old pine forests. The same chain of eskers continues south of Lake Rutajärvi as Haapasuonharju, which has a length of several kilometres. In the pine forests of Leivonmäki, you may hear the beautiful singing of mistle thrush or see as a black woodpecker is carving a nest hole for itself.

Haapasuonharju Ridge, on the western side of Haapasuo Mire, is dominated by rugged dry pine forests, where the good Lingonberry harvest attracts people to pick berries in the autumn. Like in Syysniemi, in the middle of the more than 100-years-old pine forests you can see small esker lakes, and a diverse tree stand grows in depressions and "suppa" holes, which were made by melting ice after the Ice Age. The sandy Vartijamäki road on Haapasuonharju Ridge is a great scenic road through the southern part of the park.