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Nuuksio

Nuuksio (Finnish) or Noux (Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland, best known for the Nuuksio National Park.

Nuuksio
Nuuksio · Stephan van Helden
The place

Nuuksio (Finnish) or Noux (Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland, best known for the Nuuksio National Park. The Solvalla Sports Institute is also located in Nuuksio.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nuuksio

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lake Bodom

    Lake Bodom is a Finnish lake located in the city of Espoo, not far from Helsinki. The lake measures approximately three kilometres in length and one kilometre in width.

    3.7 km · lake in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

A number of well-signposted trails are available, while hardcore hikers can head out into the bush and stay at one of the many campsites. For the first time visitor, doing the Haukankierros loop and half of Korpinkierros will provide a good representative look. Haukankierros (blue route). The "Hawk's Tour" is a 4-km loop starting and ending at the Haukanpesä information centre, looping around Lake Haukkalampi.

From Wikivoyage: Nuuksio, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Picking berries in late summer and mushrooms in the fall are popular activities. Fishing is allowed according to the general restrictions, although there isn't all that much to catch. In winter, the trails are open to cross-country skiing; there are no lit or maintained tracks. Rock climbing is allowed only at Pitkäjärvi and the eastern Kolmoislammet. Ice climbing is permitted throughout the park.

From Wikivoyage: Nuuksio, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Nuuksio

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 21 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 94 km · Turku (TKU), 132 km
  • Turku → Nuuksio
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €15–21
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Nuuksio
    135 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €20–28
  • Lappeenranta → Nuuksio
    215 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · €26–36
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nuuksio. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
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    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    130 km
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  3. 03
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    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

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  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    210 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

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Around it

Next door to Nuuksio

Nuuksio is 6 km from Espoo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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