On the highest hill of the Alūksne Uplands – Dēliņkalns – stands the 27-metre-high Dēliņkalns observation tower. At the top of the new tower is a viewing platform equipped with binoculars and NEW panoramic information boards, offering sweeping views of the surrounding landscape.

There has been an observation tower on Dēliņkalns before. Here is what V. Jankavs wrote in 1939 in ‘Students’, a newspaper covering academic life in Latvia: “Accompanied by the town’s (Alūksne’s) oldest shopkeeper, we set off for Dēliņkalns, the highest peak in Northern Vidzeme. And once the tourist has climbed to the dizzying heights of the Dēliņkalns observation tower, the whole of north-eastern Latvia and south-eastern Estonia lie at their feet. To the north, the contemplative Munamegi rises on the horizon; to the west, Apekalns, home to the highest church above sea level in Latvia. To the east lie the dark forests of Latgale, whilst somewhere beyond the southern horizon should lie Piebalga and Dēliņkalns’s bigger brother – Gaiziņkalns.”

To reach the observation tower from Alūksne, drive via Māriņkalns, following the signs for ‘Dēliņkalns’.
Access from the Vidzeme motorway via the local road V385 “Kaktiņi–Sauleskalns”.