Kemeri national Park is a national heritage of Latvia. This is a conservation area of international importance. It was founded in 1997. The area of the Park – 38165 ha, 1954 ha is the Gulf of Riga.

The activities of ķemeri national Park is aimed at the fulfillment of the rights and duties prescribed in the code of laws called "In ķemeri National Park" from 2001. The main objective of the Park is to promote the development of economic activities without harming the surrounding world, and the nature conservancy, located on a nature reserve, nature reserves, with the aim of preserving the unique natural resources of Latvia.

Kemeri national Park includes 3 zones. This is a buffer zone that surrounds the Park. In it the locals live. II area is a protected area for protection from the illicit use of land owned by the Park. And zone III – Central, which is a specially protected zone, which is a nature reserve. Visitors can't visit this place.

The Ķemeri Park has its own legend. In the XVI century, the local Forester Kemer (hence the name of this town of Jurmala) I built a hotel a house where the occupants people could take sulphur baths. Already at that time sulphurous springs were very popular. Then in this territory formed the village Kemeri.

Today, the national Park live 3, 5 thousand people. The main business of their life is fishing.

The main part of the Park is covered with forests and swamps. In Kemeri is Great Kemeri bog. It played a crucial role in the birth of a large number of key sources of sulfuric mineral water, which served as the basis for a resort. In the Park you can see the dunes and pristine beauty of the lake, located near the sea. This is 3 huge lake Kanieris, Slokas and of Algoma.

Fauna of the national Park is a variety of animal species, which are rare in Europe and Latvia. The white-backed woodpecker (representative avifauna) – the symbol of the national Park. This bird lives in forests with high humidity and flooded the plains. In addition to white-backed, three-toed and black woodpeckers, and corncrake. About 237 bird species represented in the Park, and 188 of them are bred here. Among mammals the Park is home to wolves, elk, boar, ROE deer and others.

Flora Kemeri very diverse, and about a quarter of the plant species of the Latvian red book can be found in this Park. Of the most beautiful representatives of flora is a European species of Orchid – "lady's slipper". Almost half of the territory of ķemeri national Park is covered by forests. It's deciduous forests dominated by oak and ash, ancient pine forest on the dunes and wet Northern coniferous forests dominated by spruce and pine.

Here you can see traces of trenches and cemeteries that remained after First and Second World wars.

At West Park Kemeri turned sandy beaches. Low sand dunes can be observed over almost the entire coastline. Dunes have bizarre forms and shapes. This was further facilitated by the work of waves and wind. But the dunes that are located far away from the sea, rather densely covered with pine forests.

Lively interest among the visitors cause 2 mineral spring. One of them is at the beginning of the Foundation of Park road. At the gazebo pictured lizard. Think this is almost the only object that has been preserved in its original form since the late nineteenth century. Another source is situated toad. This gazebo is a sample of landscape architecture of the early XX century. Unfortunately, from her absolutely nothing left. Most importantly, here are the most important mineral sources of ķemeri.

The Park has a large number of small bridges and paths that you can walk, get some fresh air and enjoy the stunning scenery of ķemeri national Park.