Why this ride
On the way it passes Sunila Housing Area and MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys. 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.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys and Sunila Housing Area
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 122 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 13
- 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. MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys
The name is Finnish for something like a hill with a crest, and the Finnish coast has a lot of those: smooth, ice-scoured rocks rounded by the last glaciation and still rising from the sea by several millimetres a year.
Read the complete MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys is where the day begins. Next is SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri.
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
about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Sunila Housing Area. Next is back through SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri.
3. Back to MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri, late in the day. Next is MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys.
4. MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys to Sunila Housing Area
MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys → Sunila Housing Area is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunila Housing Area to Back to MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys
Sunila Housing Area → Back to MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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