Services for day trips and longer hikes
The national park area has plenty of hiking structures for day trips and longer hikes:
- numerous campfire sites
- several lean-to shelters
- Day-use huts
- Huts intended for overnight stays can be found here.
Camping is guided by regulations
The recreational use of the national park is managed through zoning. In the national park's hiking and nature tourism zone as well as in the remote zone, there are different rules regarding camping and making open fires. Check the zones on the map and the restrictions in the national park's regulations.
Campsites
- As campsites are shared resting places, you should show consideration towards other hikers.
- There is no waste management at the campsites, so bring your rubbish home.
- In the recreational and nature turism zone of National Park lighting fires is only permitted at specially designated campfire sites. In the remote zone (except Paratiisikuru, Lumikuru and Raja-Jooseppi homestead and in the skolt fields) you are free to light fires using fallen twigs and branches found on the ground. If a maintained campfire site is within half a kilometer in the remote zone, we recommend using it.
- Before you light a fire, always check if any forest fire warnings are in effect. When a forest fire warning has been issued, lighting fires is prohibited.
- Firewood is provided at campfire sites. Remember that you may have to chop up the wood yourself. Please use the firewood sparingly. The lean-to shelters and campfire huts have a saw and an axe in their woodsheds.
- Do not burn rubbish or tear off bark from living trees. You can use a small amount of clean paper and cardboard to light your fire.
- The last person to leave the campfire site is always responsible for putting out the fire.
- Further instructions for lighting fires ›
Suomujärvi tulipaikka
Campfire site
Kummalehdonoja tulipaikka
Campfire site
Luttotupa
Day cottage
Day-use Hut The day-use hut is an open and shared resting place for self-guided hikers for daytime use without reservation or fee. Overnight stays are not allowed in the day-use hut. Facilities: - Heating with a stove. - No drinking water point. Water from natural sources must be purified before drinking. - No waste management. Take your own waste out of the area. - Pets are allowed in the hut only with the consent of other users.
Luulampi opastustupa
Day cottage
The hut operates a café during the spring, summer, and autumn seasons. When the café is open, eating your own food is not allowed. When the hut is used by the café entrepreneur, the entrepreneur locks the cabin doors when the café closes. When there is no café activity in the cabin, it serves as a day-use hut as usual. The campfire hut in the yard is available for everyone year-round. The day-use hut is an open and shared resting place for self-guided hikers for daytime use without reservation or fee. Overnight stays are not allowed in the day-use hut. Facilities: - Heating with a stove. - No drinking water point. Water from natural sources must be purified before drinking. - No waste management. Take your own waste out of the area. - Pets are allowed in the hut only with the consent of other users.
Rakitsanoja tulipaikka
Campfire site
Drinking water
- Always boil water from natural sources before drinking it.
- Do not wash dishes or yourself in natural waters or on well covers.
- After use, remember to soak any washing water into the ground far enough away from natural waters or water supply points.
- Read more about drinking water ›
Toilets
- Remember to bring your own toilet paper.
- Check the instructions for using the toilet provided at the campsite.
Waste disposal
- Take your rubbish home, do not burn it.
- Remember to bring some rubbish bags when you go out.
- Do not throw food waste out in the forest.
