CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
On the way it passes Sunila Housing Area, PORLOM II Tornikallio, back through Sunila Housing Area and HOGLAND. It crosses from Russia into Finland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
HOGLAND is where the day begins. Next is SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Sunila Housing Area. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
PORLOM II Tornikallio, about halfway. Next is back through Sunila Housing Area.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunila Housing Area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sunila Housing Area sits at 211 km, about halfway. Next is back through SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete HOGLAND write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri comes up about 266 km into the recorded legs. Next is HOGLAND.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete HOGLAND write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
HOGLAND closes the day.
HOGLAND → Sunila Housing Area is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunila Housing Area → PORLOM II Tornikallio is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
PORLOM II Tornikallio → back through Sunila Housing Area is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sunila Housing Area → Back to HOGLAND is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.