Why this ride
It goes by way of Sunila Housing Area, PORLOM II Tornikallio and back through Sunila Housing Area. It crosses from Russia into Finland - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
HOGLAND and PORLOM II Tornikallio · 277 km
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 277 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 47
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. HOGLAND
Hogland, or Gogland to the Russians who now own it, is a lump of granite in the middle of the Gulf of Finland, a long boat ride from the Finnish coast near Kotka. There is no road to ride to it, so on a motorcycle route this point is a marker for the Gulf of Finland and the island itself rather than somewhere you will actually park.
Read the complete HOGLAND write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
HOGLAND is where the day begins. Next is Sunila Housing Area.
2. Sunila Housing Area
Alvar Aalto designed this place before the Second World War, and you can still read the plan on the ground. Sunila is a pulp mill on a rocky island near Kotka, on the Gulf of Finland, and Aalto designed both the mill buildings and the housing for the workers, in the late 1930s. The houses step down the slope in terraces among the pines, with an eye for views and shared space, which was unusual for an industrial settlement then. The mill still runs, with smoke rising over the pines on cold mornings, so the place is a working one, not a museum, and the housing area is lived in by residents who deserve some quiet.
Read the complete Sunila Housing Area write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sunila Housing Area comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is PORLOM II Tornikallio.
3. PORLOM II Tornikallio
Tornikallio means tower rock in Finnish, and it is a common name for a rocky hill with a view. Artjärvi and Myrskylä lie in the rolling farmland where Uusimaa meets Kymenlaakso, a landscape of small lakes, red barns, rye and oat fields and patches of spruce forest, drained by the Porvoonjoki river on its way to the Gulf of Finland. It is gentler than the lake district farther north, and it has a well-worn look, with old wooden farmhouses and village churches painted white or ochre.
Read the complete PORLOM II Tornikallio write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach PORLOM II Tornikallio. Next is back through Sunila Housing Area.
4. back through Sunila Housing Area
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunila Housing Area write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sunila Housing Area, late in the day. Next is HOGLAND.
5. HOGLAND
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete HOGLAND write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at HOGLAND. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
HOGLAND to Sunila Housing Area
HOGLAND → Sunila Housing Area is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunila Housing Area to PORLOM II Tornikallio
Sunila Housing Area → PORLOM II Tornikallio is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
PORLOM II Tornikallio to back through Sunila Housing Area
PORLOM II Tornikallio → back through Sunila Housing Area is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sunila Housing Area to HOGLAND
back through Sunila Housing Area → HOGLAND is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.