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
Mäntysalonkämppä
Number of beds
14 beds
Size (in square metres)
120 m2
Address
Mäntysalo 28, 79700 Heinävesi
Coordinates
Euref-Fin (~ WGS84) lat: 62° 17.7689' lon: 28° 46.3476' ETRS-TM35FIN: N: 6908431 E: 591925
Mäntysalonkämppä rental hut (a large common room, one bedroom and a kitchen) is situated on the eastern shore of Mäntysalo Island on the northern end of Kolovesi National Park. The hut, an old loggers' cabin built in 1940, was restored for its current purpose in 2006-2007. The Mäntysalonkämppä hut is situated on an island, and tenants must arrange passage from the mainland to the island independently. A 1.7 km connecting path runs from the hut to the Mäntysalo nature trail. The Mäntysalo nature trail is 3.8 km long. There is also a sauna in the yard.
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).
2024: Available for rent from 24 May to 28 September.
Rental hut
Price list 10.12.2024–
| Duration | Hut |
|---|---|
| Duration | 114,00 € |
The cabin is available for booking for:24.5.–1.11.2025, 22.5.–28.9.2026
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic details of the destination
- Municipality
- Heinävesi
- Region
- Pohjois-Karjala
- Location
- Kolovesi National Park
- Heating
- Wood-burning baking oven
- Electricity
- No
- Cooking
- Gas refrigerator, gas stove
- Drinking water
- Must be brought yourself, well (only in the summer)
- Toilet
- Dry toilet
- Staying overnight
- Blankets, bunk bed, mattresses, pillows
- Pets
- Prohibited
- 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
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Arrival instructions
By boat
The hut is accessible from the south by canoe, rowing boat or electric motor boat. Motor boats with internal combustion engine may not enter the southern part of Kolovesi National Park. The hut is approximately 17 km away from the Käkövesi guidance and boat launching site and approximately 9 km from the Kirkkoranta guidance and boat launching site.
From the north, the hut is accessible from the boat route, the so-called Heinävesi route across the northern part of the national park. The hut is approximately 2.5 km away from the route. From the north, the hut is also accessible by motor boat.
Driving Instructions
It is about 15 km from the municipality of Enonkoski to the boat launching place of Käkövesi, where there is an information board with a map. The way is signposted from the centre of Enonkoski, from where you need to continue in the road no 471 to the ferry over Hanhivirta and onto the fork of the road going to Käkövesi boat launching place, where there is a brown and white sign to Kolovesi National Park Käkövesi. There is a parking area at Käkövesi boat launching place. Parking area is not ploughed in winter.
The Kirkkoranta guidance and boat launching site is also accessible from road no. 471. Kirkkoranta is 25 km from Enonkoski, approximately 23 km from Savonranta and around 30 km from Heinävesi. A sign for the Kolovesi National Park stands at the crossroads for Kirkkoranta. There is a parking area at the end of the road.
By Public Transportation
The Kolovesi National Park is not accessible by public transport and there are no regular bus services to the park. Some bus services run to Enonkoski from Savonlinna and Heinävesi. Always check the timetables (matkahuolto.fi). Enonkoski is about 33 km from Savonlinna and 55 km from Heinävesi.
Read more about the area and more detailed arrival instructions on Nationalparks.fi.
Yard
A campfire site, a sauna, a well and a dry toilet in the yard.
There is a jetty for boats and canoes/kayaks by the shore. Water by the shore deepens quickly.
Camping in the yard is not allowed.
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 wood-burning stove in the kitchen-living room and firewood for heating. Please use firewood sparingly. Please note that it takes some time before the hut is properly warm. No basic heating.
There are candles and battery-powered lanterns at the hut for lighting.
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 and fridge, cooking utensils and tableware for 16 people.
Drinking water
There is no running water in the hut.
There is a well in the yard. The quality of the water in the well has been analysed and boiling is recommended before using it as drinking water.
Staying overnight
There is accommodation for 10 people in bunk beds in the common room, four in the bedroom. Mattresses, blankets and pillows.
Please bring your own linen or a sleeping bag and towels.
Sauna
The lakeside sauna is wood-burning.
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).
There is a “well” for greywater at the western end of the outbuilding.
The Kirkkoranta waste collection point has containers for metal, mixed waste and clear and coloured glass.
Other things to keep in mind
In the winter, 1.1.-30.4., it is forbidden to enter any of the islands (including Mäntysalo) in the park.
There are no accessible services in the hut.
Please clean the hut before you leave.
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.
More information:
Koli Nature Centre Ukko, ukko(at)retkipaikka.fi, tel. +358 40 773 2442.
If you notice that anything requires maintenance, kindly let us know so that we can react to the needs as quickly as possible.
