Also, it is restricted for anyone to start a hotel, restaurant, or other public establishment which might adversely influence the Livonian culture or draw outsiders into the area.

However, there have been several old fishermen or farmer houses converted into modern summerhouses by Latvian higher class, as well as some well-off descendants of local Livonian families.

Earthworks were installed to extend railway from Pitrags to Saunags and Vaide, but the work was interrupted by moving front lines.

After World War II, in 1950s the Soviet Army built a wide dirt road connecting all the villages and the railway become obsolete.

The railway was closed completely in 1960s, but there are several straight sections of roads or passages which still can be seen behind the dunes in Saunags and Pitrags, and in forests in Mazirbe and Lielirbe.