Sotkamo Voyage Tips and guide

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Sotkamo is in Kainuu. The municipality is best known for the Vuokatti ski resort, just outside the town.

Vuokatti is a diverse ski and sports resort by a couple of lakes in the municipality of Sotkamo. There are many hotels, resorts and cottages to stay in and enjoy the nature and doings.

Kajaani is the nearest major city, served by planes, buses and trains. From there you can travel to Sotkamo by bus. As otherwise in rural Finland, car is your other option for getting in. In the wintertime, the free Vuokatti SkiBus operates between Sotkamo and Vuokatti.

Map of Sotkamo

See also: Finland#By motorised scooter

Finnish Move on East^{[dead link]} rents electric kick scooters for use in the centre.

If you arrived by car in Sotkamo, using the car is good for traveling longer distances (which are present in there).

See Kainuu and Eastern Oulu region#By taxi

• Menevä Sotkamo, ☏ +358 50-471-0470 (head of office), toll-free: 0800-02120 (booking), [email protected]. Flag fall M–Sa 06:00–18:00: €4, other times and holidays: €7; 1–4 persons €0.90/km + €0.90/min, 5–8 persons minimum €20, €1.60/km + €0.90/min (December 2021). 
• Smartphone apps: Valopilkku, 02 Taksi

• 64.1294828.409031 Sotkamo museum, Sopalantie 1, 88600 Sotkamo, ☏ +358 40 848 5543. Two old granaries are the museum of local history and culture in Sotkamo  

  

• 64.2037928.733432 Tervajärvi house museum, Tervajärventie 16, 88600 Sotkamo, ☏ +358 400 755599. Tervajärvi is a classic Kainuu farmhouse. The museum contais main building, built in the 19th century and three storage houses.  

  

• 64.13211128.3925283 Huovishuone, Niemeläntie 1, 88600 Sotkamo. Veikko Huovinen´s memorabilia room  

• 64.13228.2711 Vuokatti (7 km east of Sotkamo centre). Ski resort. (updated Mar 2018)

• 63.901928.99771 Hiidenportti National Park – national park offering silence, old-growth forest and the Hiidenportti gorge. 30 km from the centre, mostly by small roads, signposted from road 76 towards Kuhmo.
• Kuhmo
• Valtimo
• Kajaani