Transport and Roads

The main roads passing through Otepää Municipality include the national support roads Tatra–Otepää–Sangaste and Rõngu–Otepää–Kanepi. The municipality has 105 km of local roads, 183 km of private roads and 40 km of forest roads. The town of Otepää has 55 streets with a total length of 32 km, of which 30 km are paved and 1.5 km are gravel roads. Significant work has been done to develop light traffic paths. Cycle paths have been completed on the routes Otepää–Kääriku and Otepää–Kannistiku. The Otepää–Palupera–Rõngu light traffic path has also been completed, improving pedestrian safety on the Otepää–Pedajamäe and Otepää–Kanepi junction directions.


For bus transport information, see:

Peatus.ee 

For train transport information, see:

Elron.ee

REGIONAL BUS LINES

The service volume of contracts managed by the Valgamaa Public Transport Centre is approximately 2 million route kilometres per year. Regional lines are divided into three groups:

Group I mainly serves the Tõrva and Valga region,
Group II serves the area from Valga to Saru Plywood Factory,
Group III serves the Otepää region and connects the winter capital with Tartu, Elva and Antsla.

There are also good connections from Valga to the regional centres of neighbouring counties – Elva, Antsla, Tartu and Võru.

Additional information: Liia Rätsep, Executive Manager of the Valgamaa Public Transport Centre, tel. 766 6125  e-mail: Liia.Ratsep@valgamaa.ee

All Valga County routes: https://transport.valgamaa.ee/soiduplaanid/

From 01.01.2023, bus route numbers will change and there will also be other changes to the routes.

Changes to Valgamaa bus routes

09:20 23.08.2023

Due to the start of the 2023/2024 school year, the following changes apply to Valgamaa bus routes:

Timetables are available on the Valgamaa Public Transport Centre website: https://transport.valgamaa.ee/ under the section “Sõiduplaanid”.