Arctic by Cycle: Santa's Eastern Gravel Loop

The Santa’s Eastern Gravel Loop is a slightly more challenging cousin of the Santa’s Western Gravel Loop. Excluding the start at the Rovaniemi City and the Santa Claus Village at the arctic circle, the two are fairly different beasts. The 472km and 6-7 day Eastern Gravel Loop includes some long single track sections in the Pyhä-Luosto National Park as well as a remote 200km service-free forest section, making it physically, technically and logistically more demanding than its Fjell Lapland neighbor. The route connects Rovaniemi, Kemijärvi, Pyhä and Luosto into a versatile one week route in the central Lapland taiga, spiced up with the most southern high fells in the country.