Hyrynsalmi Biking Trails

Experience the beautiful landscapes of Kainuu on a gentle cycling tour. The route includes hills, cultural attractions, and natural sites. Spend five days exploring.

The Vorlok mountain bike trail features beautiful views, rugged terrain, and a challenging route that requires mountain biking experience. There are a couple campfire spots, a laavu and a rental cabin on the route. This biking route basically weaves in and out of the hiking trail. Which also goes to the gorge & swamp.

This is a demanding biking route that starts in Ukkohalla, goes to Komulanköngää waterfalls and continues by Lake Ypykänlampi where there is a hut. The trail offers great scenery, varied terrain, lots of elevation changes. You can see by the map this trail overlaps others. It also connects to other biking routes. For example you can continue and loop around the entire Palkakka Nature Reserve.

The Pienenmäki biking route up Pieni Tuomivaara hill. It goes. through the spruce forests of Vorloki. This biking trips is moderately challenging. The beginning of the trail climbs for about 3 km to the top of Pieni Tuomivaara (120m attitude difference. The trail descends from the old ski trails and goes through various forest / gravel / roads and paths. Until looping back around to Ukkohalla. There are a lot of rocks and roots on the route.

Komulankönkään mtb-reitti is a biking trip that starts at the Ukkohalla tourist center and takes you to Komulanköngää waterfall. The waterfall has 2 6 meter falls, there is an old mill there, and now a Laavu. During April to June the rapids are at their peak. Along the route there are also swamps, grasslands and mixed forest that wrap around lakes and rivers. The route is more of a demanding route and may not be the best for beginners. There are a lot of rocks & roots on the route.

Letuksen mtb-lenkki biking trail is a large loop that is a challenging bike ride. It goes up Iso Tuomivaara (387m), it goes to Komulanköngää waterfall. The path is gravel forest roads & dirt forest roads. If you look at the map there are also other biking trails that connect to this one.

This is a biking trail the goes around Paljakka nature reserve. It also connects to Paljakka Ski resort. The forest is an old forest which has boardwalks set up to go through the bogs. There are many nature observation towers to see the scenery snd Lean to shelters for stopping to rest & a meal. There trail is moderate, there are some harder spots in Helvetkuoppa, towards Mustakummu, Komulanköngäs and Kanakorvi. It is recommended to travel clockwise.

Iso Tuomivaara biking trail goes to the highest peak in the region of Kainuu (Tuomivaara). Most of the of route is on gravel forest roads or dirt forest paths. The route is well marked and easy to navigate. This is a large loop, you start & end from Ukkohalla and runs through mainly pine forests. The route is very beautiful in the summer & into the fall (end of September). It is an easy route that is good for beginners, although there are some rocky sections and elevation changes.

Check opening details and route names on Ukkohalla Ski Resort's summer mountain biking pages, which feature Pieni Tuomivaara as a popular circuit of roughly nine kilometres with ridge views and riding through spruce forest beyond the immediate resort buildings(1). The Municipality of Hyrynsalmi publishes a route guide noting on the order of one hundred kilometres of summer mountain biking trails under municipal outdoors maintenance and pointing readers toward map services(2). Ukkohalla's introductory mountain biking pages place the whole resort network in the Ukkohalla–Vorloki ridge landscapes and spell out on-site fatbike hire prices together with online booking through the resort shop(3). Broader regional listings also steer visitors toward third-party outdoor route browsers for some GPS-ready trail cards in addition to council maps(4). Hyrynsalmi and Kainuu set the location: the summer mountain biking loop on our map is about 8.7 km as one circuit through the municipality, starting and finishing at Ukkohalla—marketing copy for the same named ride often rounds to about nine kilometres(1). Expect a sustained opening climb on old slope and forest connectors toward the Pieni Tuomivaara summit with on the order of 120 m of vertical across a few kilometres, then a rolling return through needle forest typical of the wider Vorloki-country mosaic before you re-enter the holiday village(1)(3). Around Syväjärvi within the first half-kilometre, Syväjärven luoteinen laavu, Syväjärven parkkipaikka, and Hyrynsalmi's Syväjärven puolikota make natural shore-side breaks before the uphill work begins. About 3.6 km into the loop, Lämpöladuntien pysäköintialue sits on the maintained winter trail approach to the Pieni Tuomivaara top and suits riders who prefer to drive higher and join the circuit there. Closer to the ski hill again, Ukkohallan yläkota offers a slope-side kota with food service during lift operating hours. The closing kilometres pass Ukkohalla DiscGolfPark and run back through Hotel Ukkohalla, rental points, shoreline saunas, Ukkohallan uimaranta, and Ukkohalla alakota beside the lifts—so swimming, sauna, or a meal are easy once the pedals stop. Electrified and conventional fatbikes are rented from the resort with published three-hour and full-day windows, and staff recommend booking ahead online on busy dates(3). When you want a longer link-up, Paljakan kierros mtb-reitti, Kokkoharju circular trail, and the marked Ukkohallan talvimaisema pyöräilyreitti share trailheads or connectors with this network on the Ukkohalla map in fair-weather routing(1).

Plan this ride with Metsähallitus on Luontoon.fi, which hosts the official Hallan pyöräreitti presentation for the Ukkohalla–Suomussalmi area(1). The Municipality of Hyrynsalmi publishes a route guide that summarizes summer trail kilometres and points visitors to map services and route apps(2). Ukkohalla’s mountain biking pages introduce the resort’s wider forest-and-fell trail network and on-site fatbike hire with online booking through the Ski Ukkohalla online store(3)(5). Visit Suomussalmi’s routes overview gathers regional walking and cycling ideas and refers readers to Luontoon.fi and other digital route collections for full descriptions(4). The cycling route on our map is about 29.8 km point-to-point in Hyrynsalmi, Kainuu, starting from the Ukkohalla holiday area toward the Suomussalmi municipal boundary—not a loop. The opening kilometres stay busy with resort life: Hotel Ukkohalla, Ukkohallan uimaranta on Syväjärvi, saunas, Ukkohalla Grillipaikka, and Ukkohallan välinevuokraamo sit beside the trail, and several parking options—Ukkohallan pysäköintialue, Parkkipaikka, Ukkohalla Finland, and Syväjärven parkkipaikka—let you start from the shore or slope side. Syväjärven luoteinen laavu and Syväjärven puolikota make easy early breaks before the line heads into quieter forest roads. About 8 km from the start, Ristikosken laavu and its small roadside parking offer a natural lunch stop on stream scenery; a little farther, around 12 km, Hoikkajärven kota and a nearby parking pull-off support a longer pause before the climb toward Vaara country. Near 17 km, Kattilavaaran kota sits almost on the trail for a fire-ring stop with a woodshed noted in local listings. Surfaces are mostly gravel and forest roads suited to mountain or gravel bikes; the riding is endurance-oriented rather than steep singletrack, so newcomers to bike touring often still enjoy it if they respect occasional motor traffic. Shorter resort loops such as Komulankönkään mtb-reitti, Letuksen mtb-lenkki, and Jyrkän kierros maastopyörällä overlap the same trailheads—handy if you want to add on a day after this longer leg. Riders continuing beyond Hyrynsalmi toward Suomussalmi should read Luontoon.fi(1) for the full cross-municipality itinerary, river-valley sections, and any seasonal updates before committing to a one-way shuttle plan.