National Park
The open and bookable wilderness huts along the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, including the famous Hetta-Pallas hiking and skiing route.
Open and bookable huts run the length of the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, often side by side: carry a bit extra for the open huts, or just a sleeping bag liner and food for the well-resourced bookable ones. Both are superbly maintained and make arctic hiking and skiing accessible to all.
- Pyhäkero Open Hut - sleeps 5, just 7 km from Hetta, spring café on site
- Sioskuru, Nammalakuru reservable huts - sleep 8, 10 EUR/night/person
- Hannukuru - open hut sleeps 16+16, reservable hut sleeps 24, lakeside sauna
- Hannukuru sauna fee - 7 EUR adult, 4 EUR child (under 7)
- Reservable huts include stove, gas cooker, cookware, bunks with mattresses/blankets
- Pets are not permitted in reservable huts, pets allowed in some open huts if other visitors agree
Huts along the Hetta-Pallas route
Listed in the order you reach them hiking or skiing from Hetta to Pallas.
Pyhäkero Open Wilderness Hut sleeps 5, 7 km from Hetta, with fireplace and gas cooker (a service hut on the grounds houses a café in spring). Sioskuru Open and Reservable Hut, 15 km from Hetta and renovated 2007, sleeps 8 reservable at 10 EUR/night/person, plus a 16-person open hut. Tappuri Open Hut sleeps 8, 1 km east of the trail towards Ketomella. Pahakuru Open Hut sleeps 6, 26 km from Hetta.
Hannukuru huts
Hannukuru Open Wilderness Hut sleeps 16 + 16, 28 km from Hetta and 27 km from Pallas, with a stove, gas cooker and a sauna at the small nearby lake (7 EUR adult, 4 EUR child under 7). The Hannukuru Reservable Wilderness Hut sleeps 24 (12 + 12), bookable for 10 EUR/night/person through Pallastunturi Visitor Centre, with bunks, mattresses, pillows, blankets, a stove, gas cooker and basic cookware.
Towards Pallas
Suaskuru Kota campfire shelter sits on a forested knoll c. 5 km from Hannukuru. Montellin Maja Open Hut sleeps 4, 40 km from Hetta and 15 km from Pallas (cold in mid-winter). Nammalakuru Reservable and Open Hut, 42 km from Hetta and 13 km from Pallas, sleeps 8 reservable at 10 EUR/night/person, plus a 16-person open hut and a café in the campfire shelter in spring, summer and autumn. Rihmakuru Kota is the first stop from Pallas towards Hetta, c. 10km from Pallas.
Huts off the main trails
Rautuoja Open Wilderness Hut sleeps 4 on the bank of the River Rautuoja near the park's western boundary, with no marked trail. Puolitaival Open Wilderness Hut sleeps 6 on the old postal trail between Hetta and Muonio, on the River Siosjoki along the snowmobile track. Other nearby options include Vuontispirtti Hotel in Ylikyrö, the Ketomella cabins and the Hietajärvi open shelter.
Good to know
- Reservable bookings
- Pallastunturi Visitor Centre, tel. +358 205 64 7930 / 7950
Ready when you are
Real wilderness, 200+ huskies, eighteen winters in.