Mountain bike trails

Located in Pyhävaara, the Pyhän Jyssäys trail has been repaired during winter 2021, and it’s now available for cycling also in the summer.

Most of the trail has been made more durable by adding fine crushed gravel, but wide duckboards were added on some sections of the trail in summer 2021. The purpose of the duckboards is to protect the precious plants in the wetlands along the trail. This is why moving around must always be limited to the duckboards.

We are still adding signposts along the trail. We apologise for the trail’s incomplete signage. In the winter, you can bike on Pyhävaara’s Hirsilampi winter trail. 

Mountain bike trails map online

From summer 2021, mountain biking is no longer permitted on Valtavaara fell because, despite the repairs, there are sections along the trail that cannot support mountain biking. 

Mountain bike trails map online

Juhannuskallio is a nature reserve where mountain biking is absolutely forbidden. 

Mountain bike trails map online

In Oulanka National Park, mountain biking is permitted only on the Karhunkierros Trail’s section from Oulanka Visitor Centre to Taivalköngäs (specified in the Oulanka use and maintenance plan by Metsähallitus), but mountain biking is not recommended along that section due to increasing visitor volumes.

Mountain biking is forbidden elsewhere in the national park during the summer. In the winter, mountain biking is permitted on the Oulanka Wilderness Trail.

You can find more information on Metsähallitus’s trails from Oulanka Visitor Centre: +358 (0)206 396 850, oulanka@metsa.fi. 

Mountain bike trails map online