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Northern lights in Pyhä-Luosto
9 viewing spots around Pyhä-Luosto, chosen for a dark sky and an open view. For each one: how dark it is, which way it looks, where to park and how to get there. Near the edge of the auroral oval: aurora on most active nights, low in the northern sky on quiet ones.
- Viewing spots
- 9
- Dark or very dark
- 7
- Magnetic latitude
- 64.4°
- Clearest dark month
- March 33 % of hours clear or partly clear
Which of these spots is clear tonight, and when? Aurora Atlas scores every spot hour by hour from the cloud forecast, darkness, the moon and live aurora activity.
See tonight's live scores for Pyhä-Luosto in Aurora AtlasViewing spots
- Auroralampi (Aurolampi) shelter · Luosto Visit Pyhä-Luosto calls the Aurolampi trail 'one of Pyhä-Luosto's top aurora viewing spots', with minimal light…
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Ukko-Luosto summit
Highest point of the Luosto fells in Pyhä-Luosto National Park, above the treeline with old pines below; the open…
- Asteli beach · Pyhäjärvi Public swimming beach on the south shore of Lake Pyhäjärvi, named in Pyhä–Luosto guidance as a good aurora option: the…
- Rykimäkero rest area · Pyhä–Luosto road Paved rest area inside Pyhä-Luosto National Park with a Metsähallitus kota (hut) and toilets 600 m away: the dark…
- Huttujärvi car park · Pyhä Metsähallitus car park and lakeside barbecue shelter west of Pyhä, a quieter alternative to the resort.
- Luostonloma rest area · Luosto Paved rest area on the road north out of Luosto, where the resort lights are behind the fell.
- Orakoski rest area · E75 by the Kitinen Paved rest area on the E75 at the Orakoski rapids of the Kitinen river, on the drive from Rovaniemi to Sodankylä and…
- E75 rest area on the Ilmakkiaapa mire · north of Sodankylä Unlit E75 rest area on a forest island in a big open bog. The Lapland bird society describes it as the stop for the…
- Kotavaara observation tower · Kemijärvi Observation tower on Kotavaara hill above Kemijärvi, with a small car park below.
Drive times are estimates from the middle of Pyhä-Luosto by straight-line distance, as the app estimates them before it knows your route; ferries and winter closures are not counted.