A film about national parks - as about new forms of organizing mass recreation outside the city. A large number of sightseeing buses on the shores of Lake Ritsa. Tourists in the reserve "Krasnoyarsk Pillars", the inscriptions left by tourists on the rocks. Doctor of Biological Sciences NF Reimers speaks about the need to restrict people's access to protected areas. Estonia; Lahemaa National Park ("Land of the Bays"). Acquaintance of tourists with the national park along specially laid routes: "Big Circle" and "Small Circle". Tourists get acquainted with plants, flowers, a waterfall, without leaving the paved path. The advantages of such an ecological system for acquaintance of tourists with Lahemaa National Park are discussed by J. Eilart, the chief forester of the park A. Kaasik. Landscapes of Lahemaa National Park. Tour of tourists on the Palsme manor; inspection of manor buildings, a pond, a gazebo in the park. Latvia. Gauja National Park; animals: bison, wild boars, badgers, hares in the park. The passage of a group of riders along the path of the park. Interview with Academician V. E. Sokolov on the need to create protected national parks in the Russian Federation.