Shared rental huts

In a shared rental hut, you can book a bed for a night or two. You share the hut with other hikers.

Shared rental hut is an accommodation for self-sufficient hikers. Only those with a bed reservation can stay overnight in the locked hut. The person who has reserved a bed receives the hut key after payment. Shared rental hut can also be part of or connected to an open wilderness hut.

Shared rental huts have sleeping places, a table, benches, cooking utensils, a stove, often a gas stove, and a dry toilet. Hikers have access to firewood, a saw, and an axe. Additionally, shared rental huts usually have mattresses, blankets, and pillows.

Smoking is forbidden and pets are not allowed in huts. People accompanied by guide or assistance dogs have a statutory right to access all locations. This also applies to Metsähallitus huts.

Guidelines on using shared rental huts

1. Shared rental huts are meant for persons who travel by foot, skis etc. but not for persons who travel with motor vehicles. Hut may be used for 1 to 2 days by persons who have reserved a bed. Using shared rental huts for commercial means is only allowed with a permission from Metsähallitus.  
2. Some huts have specific instructions either in the hut's own folder or on information boards on the wall. Read the instructions to learn more about the hut and its equipment.
3. Check the condition of the hut's fireplace before lighting a fire. Use the hut's firewood supply sparingly. If there is a gas cooker at the hut, read the instructions given for it, before using the cooker.
4. If the quality of the water at the hut's water point is tested regularly, this will be told in the hut's folder and there will be a statement by health authorities at the hut. We recommend that water which is not regularly tested or is taken from natural bodies of water be boiled before you drink it.
5. Do not disturb other people staying at the hut. Smoking is forbidden in huts! Find out in advance if it is allowed to bring pets in the hut. People accompanied by guide or assistance dogs have a statutory right to access all locations. This also applies to Metsähallitus huts.
6. Follow the directions for waste management and recycling. Burn only clean paper. Biodegradable waste should be left at composts or dry toilets. All other waste should be taken to the closest waste recycling point.
7. Sign the hut's guestbook. Mark down any observations you have made as well as your next intended destination.
8. Before leaving make sure that there is a ready supply of chopped firewood for the hut's next visitors and carry them to the designated place inside the hut. Tidy-up the hut and its surroundings. Do not leave behind any extra items, for example food lures harmful animals into the hut. Empty the water container and take care of the waste according to the instructions. If necessary, cooled ashes can be emptied into the outdoor collection site. Close all the hut's doors and windows properly.
9. You can provide feedback on any deficiencies through the feedback form: www.luontoon.fi/en/feedback.

Consider hygiene

Please, do not wash your hands or dishes in huts' drinking water buckets or water intakes. Also, please do not fill your drinking bottle right above a drinking water bucket.

Safety tip

There are fire alarms at huts, but we recommend to bring a 9 V battery and/or your own travel fire alarm with you.