Portal Kolesa.ru expands the geography of mushroom places known to us; we combed for chanterelles, saffron mushrooms, boletus and other edible mushrooms, and now we are ready to tell you where to go for mushrooms in order to collect full baskets without spending half a day on the road.

If you remember, in one of the children's cartoons - a very long time ago - there was a song with these words:

“... And in the suburbs breams are caught,
Mushrooms, berries, flowers are found
Don't even look for a better place
You're just wasting your time!"

Let's not argue: it's all true. Although the berries have almost disappeared, but we'll talk about fishing some other time. But mushrooms remain: the product is edible, satisfying and tasty - if they are cooked correctly. In addition, it is already possible to collect mushrooms in August. Hot weather, "cut off" by rains from the very comfortable days of the end of summer, literally pushes edible mushrooms out of the ground. Butterfish, in some places - porcini mushrooms - all this quiet joy awaits those who are not too lazy to leave the house early on a Saturday or Sunday. Moreover, it so happened that mushroom pickers along the roads are rarely found in the forests of the Moscow region today: lovers of “quiet hunting” are usually inhabitants of regional dachas, “cleansing” forests within a radius of several kilometers from their hacienda. So, with some luck, you can bring home a good "catch".

So where are we going?

This direction is good because almost immediately after the end of the Vnukovo airport, on both sides of the road, forests begin that stretch all the way to Naro-Fominsk. For mushroom pickers, I could advise you to get to the junction with a turn to Krekshino and Ankudinovo. There is a place to leave the car here: there is a gas station nearby, and there are free places near the junction. In addition, turning to Krekshino, you can leave the car on the side of any of the surrounding villages, although choose places that are well visible in both directions. Otherwise, returning, you can find a car with some damage to the body.

The second place is a forest area immediately outside the village of Selyatino (this is approximately the 50th kilometer of the Kiev highway, immediately after the intersection with Malaya Concrete. There are no problems with parking here - you can park on the side of the road next to the elevated pedestrian crossing, or on the outskirts of the city. The forest is here stretches for about eight kilometers, smoothly moving into the vicinity of the tank training ground of the Taman division - the places here are not well-traveled, there are a lot of edible mushrooms.

Point three - Kuznetsovskoye forestry. It's easy to get in. Six kilometers after Selyatino on the Kiev highway you will run into the first traffic light from Moscow. On it, under the arrow, to the left, towards Yakovlevsky. After a few kilometers there will be a turn to Kuznetsovo. There are absolutely no problems with parking. Just keep in mind: the forest here is really dense; experienced mushroom pickers advise beginners to take compasses or, better, a navigator. If you run into the river - this is Ladyrka - it means that they "took" too far to the south. If you go with the flow, you will go out onto the road to Rudnevo (to the right) or Kuznetsovo (to the left), and against the current - a direct path to the village of Kievsky and the Bekasovo platforms. By the way, there are also mushroom places around Bekasovo.

Perhaps there is no point in trying to leave Moscow along the Borovskoye highway - you will encounter a lot of traffic lights in Solntsevo on your way (although, having left the city, you can drive several kilometers along a very good road). It is better, perhaps, all along the same Kiev highway to get to the repeatedly mentioned turn to Krekshino. And, at the first intersection, turn right, onto a narrow two-lane road. On it you will reach the village of Pobeda, the border of the town of Aprelevka. Leave your car here, cross the tracks of the Kiev direction of the railway, and all the local mushrooms are yours.

Minsk highway: in the process of reconstruction

At the Minka, active work is currently underway to put this highway near Moscow in order: in a year or two, traffic here will become traffic-free, at least from Lesnoy Gorodok. In the meantime - on weekends - solid traffic jams line up here. However, the first “mushroom” place is not so far from Moscow, just north of the Zhavoronka platform. The turn to it will be a kilometer after Likino. True, according to people who know, in recent years, the harvests here are not so hot.

Therefore, it is best to drive a little further - before turning to Golitsyno. And, having driven two kilometers, slow down on the side of the forest near the platform "Malye Vyazemy". You can get lost here, but it is difficult: from the south, the forest is limited by the M1 highway, from the north - by the railway of the Belarusian direction.

You can drive even further north - in the vicinity of Zvenigorod or a little further north. They say that there are good mushroom places in the vicinity of the Petelinsky poultry farm, near the village of Chatsy. But you need to go here along the Mozhayskoye highway - or through Odintsovo, or, if along Minka, then you need to turn towards Golitsino, and then, at Malyye Vyazem - to the left.

New Riga and Volokolamskoe highway: for their own

Mushroom pickers who go in search of "pasture" in the vicinity of Novorizhskoye Highway usually get by train - to the Opalikha platform, and then on foot. But you can also get there by car. Along New Riga, before turning to New. It is not worth entering the village itself - it is better to turn left, in the direction of Novoarkhangelskoye. Here, not far from the Praslikha river, you can leave your car and wander through the huge forest park. You can also get here along Volokolamka - after passing Krasnogorsk, almost at the exit from Anino, you need to turn left, onto Mira Street. Drive right up to the platform behind which the forest begins.

And also - if along Volokolamka - you can turn right at the exit from Dedovsk - there, after a few kilometers - there are forests. And mushrooms.

In general, mushroom places can be found here right on the outskirts of the Kurkino, Mitino districts, next to Khimki - all around the forest, although a little disfigured by human activity. But experts advise you to drive further - beyond the Black Dirt, beyond the Sheremetyevskoye Highway. And park on the outskirts of the village of Elino. Here they find boletus and honey mushrooms. They say there are still porcini mushrooms.

As an option - drive along Pyatnitskoye Highway to the Small Concrete Ring, and along it - to the overpass over the Big Ring of the Moscow Ring Road (just to find out later where you left the car) - there is a forest on the right and a forest on the left.

Nosovikhinskoye and Gorkovskoye highways: be careful - peat bogs!

No, honestly: in these places (Pavlovo-Posadsky district) until recently it was smoking great, only two or three weeks ago. Therefore, it is advisable to walk here carefully. Among the "generally recognized" mushroom places are the vicinity of the villages of Subbotino and Vlasovo. You can get to the first one by turning from Gorkovka to Pavlov-Posad. Here, from Mira Street, turn onto May 1 Street, then, through the 1st and 2nd May 1 lanes, go to Stepurinskaya Street, and along it - to Subbotino itself.

You can get to Vlasovo along the Nosovikhinsky highway, turning right towards Rakhmanovo. Further, along the highway, to the U-shaped intersection. And there - even to the left, to Vlasovo, even to the right, to Semenovo - continuous forests to the very Yegoryevskoye highway.

The only thing is that it is still far from Moscow ...

Kashirka: under the wing of an airplane...

The vicinity of the Domodedovo airport is also one of the recognized mushroom routes. But getting here is not so easy, if not by rail.

Best of all - along the M4 "Don", to the intersection with the Small Concrete Ring. Then - to the left, to Obraztsovo.

And after one and a half to two kilometers, a forest will begin on the left hand, which stretches to the very runways: if you run into a fence, it means it's time to take off.

And yet, they say, there are mushroom places in the Moscow region closer to Stupino (it's an hour from the Moscow Ring Road, no less).

P.S. The main thing - remember: if you are already picking mushrooms, then with a basket. If you collect mushrooms in bags, you will bring rotten dust home. Have a good hunting"!