Rental hut

Näränkä Wilderness Farm

Number of beds

30 beds

Size (in square metres)

107 m²

Address

Närängänvaarantie 28, 93999 Kuusamo

Coordinates

Euref-Fin (~ WGS84) lat: 65° 38.8454' lon: 29° 39.1832' ETRS-TM35FIN: N: 7283186 E: 622044

This beautifully restored Näränkä Wilderness Farm Rental Hut farmyard is located in southern Kuusamo in the Näränkä Natural Forests area. The Näränkä wilderness farm serves as a nature and heritage site, showcasing the surrounding nature and protected areas, as well as the life and activities of a remote farm that lived off the land. Additionally, the farm guides hikers trekking in the area. The aim is also to protect and maintain the traditional and cultural landscape, as well as to preserve the traditional forms of work associated with the farm's way of life.

You can book the main building (3 rooms and an open space upstairs) and the sauna but otherwise the farmyard is available to everybody. The Näränkä wilderness farm is not rented in the winter.

A rental hut is a place for an overnight stay that can be rented for only your use.

Map files and brochures

Terms of reservation for huts

Reservations

The reservation day for reservable and rental huts begins at 2 pm and end at 12 noon.

Bring along your invoice and proof of payment to the hut.

Available for rent in June-October.

For reservations related to school camps and nature education, a lower usage fee may be charged compared to other renters.

Basic details of the destination

Municipality: Kuusamo
Region: Pohjois-Pohjanmaa
Location: Näränkä Natural Forests
Heating: Fire place, wood-burning baking oven, wood-burning stove
Electricity: No
Cooking: Gas stove
Drinking water: Must be brought yourself, spring, well (only in the summer)
Toilet: Dry toilet
Staying overnight: Bed, folding beds, mattresses
Pets: Allowed
Sauna: Yes

Arrival instructions

The remote Näränkä Nature Reserve is located at a distance of about 60 km from Kuusamo.
The closest villages are Kurvinen, Teeriranta, Hossa (30 km) and Murtovaara.

Driving instructions

From the Kuusamo direction, you can reach Näränkä via highway 5 (E63) through the village of Murtovaara.
From the Suojärvi parking area, drive on the Murtovaarantie road (8421) for 27 kilometres and turn left onto the Korpivaarantie road, then follow the signs for Näränkä for 14 kilometres.
There is a 1-km-trail to the farm from the Suojärvi parking area. In winter, you can reach the hut on skis or snowshoes.
Please note that the roads in the area are not ploughed in winter.
Read more about the area and more detailed arrival instructions on Nationalparks.fi.

Yard

The yard area of Närängän wilderness farm includes a main building, a sauna, and a cellar that are for the exclusive use of the renter.
Additionally, the yard area has a granary, a drying barn, sheds, a campfire site, a dry toilet, and a well.
The campfire site is for public use.

Keys

The key is in a key cabinet on the hut wall. The cabinet is protected with a code. Instructions and the code are sent to you by e-mail at the time of booking.

Facilities

Heating and lighting

The hut has a baking oven in the main room, tiled stoves in the bedrooms, a wood-burning stove in the kitchen and a gas hobs. There is also firewood for heating. Please use firewood sparingly. Please note that it takes some time before the hut is properly warm. Having lit the fire, do not leave the ovens unattended.
The ovens may smoke if the chimneys are damp and the ovens have not been used for a long time. Burn dry paper in the flues before lighting a fire in the oven.
The hut has gaslights and separate instructions for using the gaslights.
The hut has no electricity. We recommend using a headlamp, which leaves your hands free to do chores around the hut. For safety reasons, candles must be burned on a non-combustible surface and constantly monitored.

Cooking

A wood-burning stove and gas hobs as well as crockery for 50 people in the kitchen.

Drinking water

There is no running water in the hut.
There is a well in the yard but it is advisable to bring drinking water with you if there has been rainfall.

Staying overnight

There are total of 7-11 beds indoors: beds/mattresses (10 pcs), pillows (5 pcs), blankets (15 pcs).
20 people can be accommodated for an overnight stay upstairs in the attic (50 m2).
Please bring your own linen or a sleeping bag.

Sauna

Sauna in the yard with washing room and a chamber.

Toilet

There is a dry toilet near the hut. Please bring your own toilet paper.

Waste disposal

There are no waste containers by the cabin. Visitors are advised to take their accumulated waste with them.

Metsähallitus follows the principles of litter-free hiking. Visitors are adviced to bring their own waste out of the area. Read more about hiking without littering (nationalparks.fi).

Other things to keep in mind

There are no accessible services in the hut.
Please clean the hut before you leave. If the main building and sauna have not been properly cleaned, a cleaning fee of 100 euros will be charged to the customer.

Safety

Although Finland has a broad network for mobile phones, there are some areas in the park without signal. If this happens try to climb to a higher place or go into an open area. Check the mobile network coverage with your mobile phone operator before your trip.
There are fire alarms at wilderness huts, but we recommend to bring a 9 V battery and/or your own travel fire alarm with you.
Read more about the area and its current information at Nationalparks.fi.

Hut maintenance

Maintenance and Management: Metsähallitus, Parks & Wildlife Finland.

More information:

Oulanka Visitor Centre, liminganlahti(at)metsa.fi, tel. +358 206 396 850. The price of the call is EUR 0.00/min + mobile phone charge specified in your mobile phone subscription or local network charge when using a landline phone.

If you notice that anything requires maintenance, kindly let us know so that we can react to the needs as quickly as possible.