Archipelago National Park
Finland
The Archipelago National Park lies in the outer skerries of the Archipelago Sea off south-west Finland, south of the…
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Finland’s forty-one national parks are free, open all year and built for self-reliance: marked trails, duckboards over the bogs, lean-to shelters with firewood supplied, and open wilderness huts anyone may sleep in. Everyman’s right lets you walk, camp and pick berries almost anywhere. Nuuksio and Sipoonkorpi are forest and lakes at the edge of Helsinki, reached by local bus, and most guided trips sold in the capital go to Nuuksio.
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Riisitunturi National Park
Finland
Riisitunturi is the fell park of the candle spruces in Finnish Lapland, an hour and a half south-east of Rovaniemi near…
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Nuuksio National Park
Finland
Nuuksio is the forest and lake country on the north-western doorstep of Helsinki, forty-five minutes from the city…
8 tickets & tours
Oulanka National Park
Finland
Oulanka is the river and forest wilderness of north-eastern Finland, just below the Arctic Circle on the Russian…
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Pyhä-Luosto National Park
Finland
Pyhä-Luosto is a chain of fells in central Finnish Lapland, about 130 kilometres and an hour and a half to two hours…
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Syöte National Park
Finland
Syöte is a quiet forest park in the fell country of northern Finland, where the region of Northern Ostrobothnia meets…
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Urho Kekkonen National Park
Finland
Urho Kekkonen National Park, UKK to everyone in Finland, is the great wilderness of north-eastern Finnish Lapland,…
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Lemmenjoki National Park
Finland
Lemmenjoki, in the far north of Finnish Lapland, three hundred kilometres beyond the Arctic Circle, is the largest…
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Sipoonkorpi National Park
Finland
Sipoonkorpi is a small park of forest, rocky hills and old farmland on the north-eastern edge of the Helsinki…
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The north is the other pole. Oulanka has the Karhunkierros, the country’s best-known long trail, and Riisitunturi the snow-crusted spruce that fill winter photographs; Pyha-Luosto, Urho Kekkonen and Lemmenjoki are Lapland fells, with gold-panning history in the last; Syote is a snowshoeing park. The Archipelago park off Turku is reached by ferry and kayak. Autumn colour, ruska, peaks in Lapland in mid-September; snow lies from November to April, and the northern lights season runs from September to March. Midsummer brings endless light and, in the north, mosquitoes.