The landscape of Syöte National Park, with its rugged hills, special bogs on hill tops and slopes, and old spruce forests create an attractive setting for a hiker. Syöte is the largest of the four parts of the Park, and it offers excellent possibilities for hiking in the summer as well as skiing in the winter. The cross-country skiing trails in the National Park form a remarkable part of the skiing trail network that serves the tourist centres of Syöte. The areas in the municipalities of Taivalkoski and Posio are quieter and very suitable for trekking.

Syöte National Park is a chain of old-growth forests, part of which is high altitude forest. One fourth of the area of the Park is mires of different types. Most of these are North Ostrobothnian aapa bogs, but some are hanging bogs on the hill slopes at altitude of even 300 metres. Many of the mires represent the old meadow culture. Remains and marks of the slash-and-burn agriculture, reindeer-herding, and forestry of the old times can be seen in many places.

Syöte National Park is managed respecting the nature and the history of land use in the area. The buildings are being renovated or rebuilt, the traditional agricultural landscapes are being restored, and the recovery of plant populations there is being studied.

The Syöte Visitor Centre works closely with the area’s schools. New study material for schoolchildren and other groups is drafted every year. There are special teachers’ pages on the internet site of the Syöte Visitor Centre, which help teachers to find ideas for their teaching programmes on ecological, cultural and environmental aspects of the area.
Guided tours are arranged both in the visitor centre and the national park. The main exhibition at the visitor centre presents the nature and cultural heritage of the park. Part of the exhibition is renewed four times a year. Several times a year there are nature events and other public happenings in the visitor centre or in the park, some arranged with local people.

The Syöte National Park was awarded the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas (www.european-charter.org) by the EUROPARC Federation in 2004. By signing and committing to the Charter, the Syöte National Park obtained the right to use the Charter logo as a sign of having taking into account the development of sustainable tourism in the area in an exemplary manner.