Muotkatunturit Wilderness Area Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
protected area in Finland
About Muotkatunturit Wilderness Area
Muotkatunturit is a true wilderness area, where you have to get along by yourself. The terrain is quite easy, but the treeless areas offer little shelter and there are many areas without mobile phone coverage. The area covers 1,570 km². Consider observingleave-no-trace campingprinciples. There are waste bins at the wilderness huts, but emptying them is costly, so avoid using them. Inari and Utsjoki both belong to the Sami native region, with about half the population in Utsjoki being Sami. Names on the map are mostly in Northern Sami and Inari Sami, sometimes in Finnish. Muotkatunturit has long been an important reindeer husbandry area, the fells in summer, the forests in winter. There are also stone age findings by lake Peltojärvi. The wilderness areas were established 1991 to protect the
Where to Stay in Muotkatunturit Wilderness Area
- 🏨Kiellatupa
- 🏨Muotkan Ruoktu
- 🏨Ranttila
- 🏨Stuorraäytsi hut
Muotkatunturit Wilderness Area Travel Guide Sections
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