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Arctic by Cycle: Ylläs-Levi MTB Route

Cycling

Length49 km

Duration(1-2d)

LocationKittilä
  • Crossing the old-growth forests of the southernmost part of the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park between the high fells of the Fjell Lapland area.
  • Northern lights can be seen multiple times a week in autumn, if the sky is clear at night.
  • High-quality services with multiple lodging options, restaurants, bike services, pubs, and cafés on both ends of the route.
  • A wide spectrum of arctic nature, from fells to swamps, from taiga to treeless fell top boulder gardens, and from forest spring to clear-water Lake of Pyhäjärvi.
  • Night at one of the wilderness shelters, either in the Ylläs-Pallastunturi National Park or further down along the route.
  • Partly flowy, party technical single tracks at the Ylläs area, balanced by traffic-free forest roads and smooth quad tracks on the Levi side of the route.
  • Length

    48.5 km
  • Unpaved

    99%
  • Duration

    -
  • Forest path

    44%
  • Uphill section

    -
  • Degree of difficulty (1-5)

    3
  • Downhill section

    -
  • Suited for biking

    100%