Autumn colours
Red and gold.
Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) — CC BY-SA 3.0 · kallerna — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Antti Leppänen — CC BY 4.0
Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park is Finland's third-largest national park, covering 1,020 square kilometres of Western Lapland. It is the country's most visited national park, with 561,200 visits recorded in 2019. It lies about 34 km in a straight line from the resort of Levi. A chain of bare fells about 100 km long dominates the park, along with northern taiga forest. The Pallastunturi fells have been chosen as one of Finland's national landscapes. Dozens of hiking and skiing trails of varying difficulty cross the park, some climbing to the fell tops and others winding through forest and bog, most of them loops with serviced campsites. In autumn the ground turns red, orange and gold beneath the rounded fells, broken by dark spruce and calm lakes such as Pallasjärvi. In winter snow covers everything and husky sled trips set out. You can hike, cycle, paddle and ski in the park. Fell weather changes fast, so bring warm layers and a map.
Red and gold.
A 100 km chain.
Below the fells.
Western Lapland, Enontekiö, Kittilä, Kolari and Muonio, Finland
Autumn for colour, winter for snow.
They range from easy to hard.