25.4.2025
Huts
Bookings for rental huts for 2026 open on May 5th at Eraluvat.fi
Bookings of rental and shared rental huts, as well as other sites available for booking for 2026, will open on Monday May 5th 2025 at 9:00am on Eraluvat.fi.
Rental hut
Hossaari
Number of beds
6 beds
Size (in square metres)
75 m2
Address
Jatkonsalmentie 14 b, Suomussalmi
Coordinates
Euref-Fin (~ WGS84) lat: 65° 27.5345 lon: 29° 30.319 ETRS-TM35FIN: p=7261910 I=616088
Hossaari rental hut is a log cabin completed in the 1960s on its own island in the Hossanjärvi Lake in Hossa National Park. The rowing distance to the island is about 200 metres. The cottage has a large hut, two bedrooms and a spacious porch. The cottage is very simple and has no electricity or running water. Separate wood heated sauna by the shore.
A rental hut is a place for an overnight stay that can be rented for only your use.
Reservations
Before reservation
Creating a user account is worthwhile. As a logged-in customer, you do not need to pay for your reservation immediately. You can also cancel unpaid reservations yourself. Create a user account.
Tip: If you reserve huts for multiple trips, make separate orders for each trip. This way, you can choose to pay for each trip's reservation only 14 days before the start of the reservation. Changes won't be made to reservations made from May 5, 2025.
After reservation
The reservation day for shared rental huts, rental huts and other rental structures begins at 2 pm and ends at 12 noon.
Bring along your invoice and proof of payment to the hut.
By following the hut etiquette, you ensure that the use of hut is smooth. Learn about the hut etiquette (luontoon.fi).
Attention entrepreneurs
A foreign company can place an order in the company's name only as an unregistered customer.
The use of the hut and other structures for business operations requires a permit from Metsähallitus. Learn about transfer of rights of use (metsa.fi).
Please note that the summer season sales for 2025 will exceptionally open only on March 1, 2025.
Available for rent 1.6.–30.9.
Rental hut
Price list 1.6.2025–31.5.2026
| Duration | Hut |
|---|---|
| Duration | 102,00 € |
Price list 1.6.2026–
| Duration | Hut |
|---|---|
| Duration | 105,00 € |
The cabin is available for booking for:1.6.–1.10.2025
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic details of the destination
- Municipality
- Suomussalmi
- Region
- Kainuu
- Location
- Hossa National Park
- Heating
- Fire place
- Electricity
- No
- Cooking
- Gas refrigerator, gas stove
- Drinking water
- Lake/river nearby, must be brought yourself
- Toilet
- Dry toilet
- Staying overnight
- Bed, blankets, mattresses, pillows
- Pets
- Allowed
- Sauna
- Yes
What's new
20.11.2024
Huts
Payment options for hut reservations in the new Eräluvat.fi service
Eräluvat.fi has been renewed, and also the payment options for hut reservations have been updated. Read more about the options available for private customers and businesses.
19.11.2024
Fishing
Hunting
Huts
Interested in aerial images, hiking trails or campfire sites? Make the most of Eräluvat.fi’s maps!
Every fishing and hunting area and hut has a page with a map window that shows the location of the destination. In case of permit areas, you can see the borders of the area. Did you know that you can choose what and how information is displayed on the map?
Arrival instructions
After the Hossa Visitor Centre, drive along Jatkonsalmentie Road for about 1 km. Thereafter, turn to the left and continue along the road that runs to Seipiniemi. Drive along the road for about 700 m, the parking area and the boat storage site are on the right.
Note: different map/navigation programs may direct the arrival to the hut incorrectly. Please verify the hut's location and route on the map.
Distances: Hossa Visitor Centre 2 km, the village of Hossa 7 km and Juntusranta about 34 km. The distance to the Seipiniemi Camping Site is about 400 m.
Read more about the area and more detailed arrival instructions on Nationalparks.fi.
Yard
Separate beach sauna in the yard of the Hossaari hut, approx. 30 m², and it has a good natural beach suitable for swimming.
Pier on the yard where landing by boat is easy.
Campfire site and a smoker box in the courtyard.
There are no other cottages on the island.
Keys
The key is in a key code box on the hut wall. The box is protected with a code. Instructions and the code are sent to you by e-mail after the payment.
Take lock de-icer with you just in case the box's lid is stuck due to frost. Metsähallitus does not have maintenance on site.
Facilities
Heating and lighting
The hut has a stove and firewood for heating. Please use firewood sparingly. Please note that it takes some time before the hut is properly warm.
The hut has no electricity. We recommend using a headlamp, which leaves your hands free to do chores around the hut. For safety reasons, candles must be burned on a non-combustible surface and constantly monitored.
Cooking
Gas stove (no oven), root cellar (the root cellar is not very cold, we recommend taking dry and freeze-fried foods), basic cookware and cooking equipment for six people.
We recommend bringing your own portable stove.
Drinking water
There is no running water in the hut.
The lake water must be boiled before using it for food. Water quality is not tested. Drink water taken directly from nature at your own risk.
See tips on how to obtain safe drinking water on a hike (Nationalparks.fi).
If necessary, you can get drinking water from the visitor centre.
Staying overnight
Six beds and beddings for six persons, no bed linen.
Please bring your own linen or a sleeping bag.
Hossa Visitor Centre rents out linen.
Sauna
The sauna is in a separate building. More detailed instructions can be found in the hut folder.
Toilet
There is a dry toilet near the hut. Please bring your own toilet paper.
Waste disposal
There are no waste containers by the cabin. Visitors are advised to take their accumulated waste with them.
Metsähallitus follows the principles of litter-free hiking. Visitors are adviced to bring their own waste out of the area. Read more about hiking without littering (nationalparks.fi).
Other things to keep in mind
The hut will not be pre-heated before the beginning of the booking period.
Please clean the hut before you leave.
Fishing and hunting
Small game hunting area 5602 surrounding the national park. A licence is required.
Safety
Although Finland has a broad network for mobile phones, there are some areas in the park without signal. If this happens try to climb to a higher place or go into an open area. Check the mobile network coverage with your mobile phone operator before your trip.
There are fire alarms at wilderness huts, but we recommend to bring a 9 V battery and/or your own travel fire alarm with you.
Read more about the area and its current information at Nationalparks.fi.
Hut maintenance
Maintenance and Management: Metsähallitus, Parks & Wildlife Finland.
If you notice that anything requires maintenance, kindly let us know: luontoon.fi/en/feedback.
Metsähallitus' cooperation company is responsible for practical maintenance: Metsäluhta Oy/ Mika Kurvinen, tel. +358 40 545 0476.
Contact details
Information on hut reservations on weekdays 9 am–3 pm. Billing, cancellations, and changes to reservations are always handled via email.
Hiking information services: Hossa Visitor Centre
Jatkonsalmentie 6
89920 Ruhtinansalmi
Check additional information and opening hours