National Park

National Park

The open and bookable wilderness huts along the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, including the famous Hetta-Pallas hiking and skiing route.

There are a variety of open and bookable huts running the length of the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. Often the open ones are adjacent to the bookable ones, so you effectively have to choose between carrying a bit extra (for the open ones) or simply carrying a sleeping bag liner and your food and staying in the well-resourced bookable ones. Both are superbly well maintained and make hiking and skiing in the arctic nature a very accessible option for 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

The huts below are 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 & Reservable Hut sleeps 8 reservable (plus a 16-person open hut), 15 km from Hetta, renovated 2007 - 10 EUR/night/person. 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 and is 28 km from Hetta and 27 km from Pallas, with a stove, gas cooker and a sauna at the small nearby lake (sauna fee 7 EUR adult, 4 EUR child under 7). The Hannukuru Reservable Wilderness Hut sleeps 24 (12 + 12) and is bookable for 10 EUR/night/person through Pallastunturi Visitor Centre, with bunk beds, mattresses, pillows and blankets, a stove, gas cooker and basic cookware.

Towards Pallas

Suaskuru Kota / campfire shelter is in 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 & Open Hut sleeps 8 reservable (plus a 16-person open hut), 42 km from Hetta and 13 km from Pallas, at 10 EUR/night/person, with a café in the campfire shelter in spring/summer/autumn. Rihmakuru Kota is the first stopping point en route from Pallas to 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 (no marked trail). Puolitaival Open Wilderness Hut sleeps 6 on the old postal trail between Hetta and Muonio, on the bank of the River Siosjoki along the snowmobile track. Other nearby options include Vuontispirtti Hotel in Ylikyrö, the Ketomella cabins, and the Hietajärvi open shelter.

Map of the Hetta-Pallas hiking and skiing route