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Coming from the west, after the power plant, there are a few kilometers of fairly narrow track with potholes and deep puddles. After that, it’s just a freshly graded forest road with fewer bumps than the main road running parallel to it.
63°45′03.22″N 29°57′09.06″E The bridge here has been removed and an embankment built in its place. No way through. Unfortunately, this is pretty much at the end of the route if you’re traveling from south to north. There’s no way to go around it.
The first part of the route consists of freshly filled, unpaved, coarse gravel. This section was boring and unpleasant to drive on. The second part was actually a kind of forest road. It was quite a special experience to drive so close to the Russian border. Crossing the bridge does require some trust in the Finnish authorities, who have approved it for a maximum of 6 metric tons, because it didn’t look very trustworthy. All in all, the route was okay, given its unique location near the border.
In Finland, all secondary roads are gravel roads of varying quality. We were extremely disappointed that this route—which can be and is driven on by any standard car, car with a trailer, or RV—was classified as an off-road route. Too bad—it was our first trip using the Atlas.
In September 2025, we were on the trails from Salla to Lokka. Great routes, right through the wilderness of Finnish Lapland
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