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: producer-declared routed record.
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A 186 km round trip from Säynätsalo - roughly 3 h 54 in the saddle. The stops in between: PUOLAKKA Oravivuori, Petäjävesi Old Church and back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Alvar Aalto won the competition for this building in 1949, and it was finished in 1952, a village council hall on a small island in Lake Päijänne that has become a pilgrimage for architects. Säynätsalo sits just across a short bridge from the town of Muurame, with Jyväskylä, the city where Aalto spent so much of his working life, a few kilometres north; the island is now part of Jyväskylä itself. The town hall is a cluster of red brick and timber around a raised courtyard of grass, and the council chamber stands over it with its high roof, fan-shaped wooden trusses and a hush of slanted light.
Read the complete Säynätsalo Town Hall write-up.
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Säynätsalo Town Hall is where the day begins. Next is PUOLAKKA Oravivuori.
Finland's lakeland is a country of water more than of land, and Päijänne, the second largest lake in the country, runs south from here for over a hundred kilometres in long, island-dotted fingers. Oravivuori, Squirrel Hill, is a forested rise near Puolakka in the Korpilahti district, now part of Jyväskylä, and the lookout on the hill gives a wide view over spruce, pine and the shining lake beyond. The label points to a hill rather than a monument, so think of it as a place to climb, look and breathe.
Read the complete PUOLAKKA Oravivuori write-up.
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PUOLAKKA Oravivuori comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Petäjävesi Old Church.
The lakeland of Central Finland is a place of low wooded ridges, narrow lakes and small farms, and Petäjävesi, a village of three and a half thousand people, lies on the shore of Lake Päijänne's northern arm, about twenty-five kilometres from Keuruu. Its old church, built entirely of pine logs, is one of the best-known wooden buildings in Europe and was inscribed by UNESCO in 1994.
Read the complete Petäjävesi Old Church write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Petäjävesi Old Church. Next is back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete PUOLAKKA Oravivuori write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori, late in the day. Next is Säynätsalo Town Hall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Säynätsalo Town Hall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Säynätsalo Town Hall. That is the ride.
Säynätsalo Town Hall → PUOLAKKA Oravivuori is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
PUOLAKKA Oravivuori → Petäjävesi Old Church is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Petäjävesi Old Church → back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori → Säynätsalo Town Hall is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.