25.4.2025
Huts
Bookings for rental huts for 2026 open on May 5th at Eraluvat.fi
Bookings of rental and shared rental huts, as well as other sites available for booking for 2026, will open on Monday May 5th 2025 at 9:00am on Eraluvat.fi.
Rental hut
Yrjölä
Number of beds
6 beds
Size (in square metres)
26 m2
Coordinates
Euref-Fin (~ WGS84) lat: 67° 07.4581' lon: 26° 51.1479' ETRS-TM35FIN: N: 7445244 E: 493600
Yrjölä rental hut (26 m² + 7,5 m² sleeping loft) is located on the Pyhälatva Aapa Mire in Pyhä-Luosto National Park, with wilderness atmosphere and the scenic Ukko-Luosto Fell rising in the background. Yrjölä can be reached in summer and autumn from the Luosto Nature Hiking Trail marked with green squares. There is no winter trail to the hut. The hut also has a sauna.
A rental hut is a place for an overnight stay that can be rented for only your use.
Reservations
Before reservation
Creating a user account is worthwhile. As a logged-in customer, you do not need to pay for your reservation immediately. You can also cancel unpaid reservations yourself. Create a user account.
Tip: If you reserve huts for multiple trips, make separate orders for each trip. This way, you can choose to pay for each trip's reservation only 14 days before the start of the reservation. Changes won't be made to reservations made from May 5, 2025.
Ensure a safe trip to the hut. Read the checklist.
After reservation
The reservation day for shared rental huts and rental huts begins at 2 pm and ends at 12 noon.
Bring along your invoice and proof of payment to the hut.
By following the hut etiquette, you ensure that the use of hut is smooth. Learn about the hut etiquette (luontoon.fi).
Attention entrepreneurs
A foreign company can place an order in the company's name only as an unregistered customer.
The use of the hut and other structures for business operations requires a permit from Metsähallitus. Learn about transfer of rights of use (metsa.fi).
Maximum length of reservation is 3 nights.
Rental hut
Price list 10.12.2024–31.12.2025
| Duration | Hut |
|---|---|
| Duration | 78,00 € |
Price list 1.1.2026–
| Duration | Hut |
|---|---|
| Duration | 100,00 € |
The cabin is available for booking for:1.1.2025–1.1.2026
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic details of the destination
- Municipality
- Sodankylä
- Region
- Lappi
- Location
- Pyhä-Luosto National Park
- Heating
- Stove
- Electricity
- No
- Cooking
- Gas stove
- Drinking water
- Must be brought yourself, spring
- Toilet
- Dry toilet
- Staying overnight
- Bed, mattresses
- Pets
- Prohibited
- Sauna
- Yes
What's new
20.11.2024
Huts
Payment options for hut reservations in the new Eräluvat.fi service
Eräluvat.fi has been renewed, and also the payment options for hut reservations have been updated. Read more about the options available for private customers and businesses.
19.11.2024
Fishing
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Arrival instructions
Hiking
In summer and autumn, from the village of Luosto, from the starting point of Luostonportti, it is about a 7 km walk to the hut, going counter-clockwise along the Luosto Nature Hiking Trail marked with green squares. From Luostonloma, near the Torvisen Maja café, the walking distance to the hut is about 6 km, using the trail going around the Ukko-Luosto Fell, and the Luosto Nature Hiking Trail, which diverges 2.4 km after the Torvisen Maja. Yrjölä rental hut is about 200 m away of the Luosto Nature Hiking Trail, there is a signpost and a one-way path to the hut.
In spring floods can prevent access to the hut.
There is no winter trail to the hut.
Driving instructions
From Highway 4 between Rovaniemi and Sodankylä, the road no. 962 turns towards Pyhä-Luosto. 10 km after the turn, along the road is the Luostonloma and Torvisen Maja parking area. In the Luosto village center you may leave your car in the large parking area at the foot of the ski slopes, or in the adjacent smaller parking area next to the trail starting point of Luostonportti.
Public transportation
From the trains and aeroplanes arriving in Rovaniemi and Kemijärvi there are bus connections (matkahuolto.fi) to Pyhä-Luosto area.
There are bus connections (matkahuolto.fi) between the Pyhä and Luosto fell centers. The number of connections vary between seasons.
Read more about the area and more detailed arrival instructions on Nationalparks.fi.
Yard
A sauna, a dry toilet, a wood shed, a shelter for the ashes and a campfire site. Making fire at the campfire site is prohibited when there is a wildfire warning in effect.
Keys
The key is in a key code box on the hut wall. The box is protected with a code. Instructions and the code are sent to you by e-mail after the payment.
Take lock de-icer with you just in case the box's lid is stuck due to frost. Metsähallitus does not have maintenance on site.
Facilities
Heating and lighting
The hut has a wood stove for heating. There is firewood in the wood shed. Please use firewood sparingly. Please note that it takes some time before the hut is properly warm.
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 gas stove and necessary cooking utensils (incl. coffee pot, pot, frying pan).
Bring your own utensils and tableware.
Drinking water
There is no running water in the hut.
Drinking water has to be carried in or taken from the spring about 300 m from the hut (a signposted duckboard trail diverges from the Luosto Nature Hiking Trail to the water point). The brown water from the small brook near the hut (signposted from the corner of the sauna building) is suitable for washing. It is recommended to boil water from natural sources before consumption. Water quality is not tested. Drink water taken directly from nature at your own risk.
See tips on how to obtain safe drinking water on a hike (Nationalparks.fi).
Staying overnight
The hut has one bed downstairs, but the main sleeping area is located on the loft.
There are mattresses and a few emergency blankets.
Please bring your own sleeping bag.
Sauna
A wood heated sauna on the yard for hut guests to use. The sauna key can be found inside the main hut, always return it to its place after use. Please note that it takes some time before the sauna is properly warm.
Remember to empty all the water containers and buckets before you leave. This is important especially in winter time as the containers will break if water freezes in them.
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.
In winter you might first need to shovel the snow off the hut entrance.
Please clean the hut before you leave.
Please do not leave anything, especially food in the hut. Leftover food can attract rodents and insects.
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:
Pyhä-Luosto Visitor Centre Naava, pyhaluosto(at)metsa.fi, tel. +358 206 39 7302. 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.
Contact details
Information on hut reservations on weekdays 9 am–3 pm. Billing, cancellations, and changes to reservations are always handled via email.
Hiking information services: Pyhä-Luosto Visitor Centre Naava
Luontotie 1
98530 Pyhätunturi (Pelkosenniemi)
Check additional information and opening hours