Why this ride
A 119 km round trip from Karhula - roughly 2 h 10 in the saddle. On the way it passes HOGLAND and Sunila Housing Area. It crosses from Finland into Russia - carry ID and check the toll rules.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Sunila Housing Area and HOGLAND
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 119 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 10
- 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. 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 is where the day begins. Next is SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri.
2. 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
about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach HOGLAND. Next is back through SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri.
3. Back to 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 SVARTVIRA Mustaviiri, late in the day. Next is Sunila Housing Area.
4. 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 at Sunila Housing Area. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Sunila Housing Area to HOGLAND
Sunila Housing Area → HOGLAND is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
HOGLAND to Back to Sunila Housing Area
HOGLAND → Back to Sunila Housing Area is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.