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

Understand

Coastline of Iso Sapsojärvi seen from Vuokatti

Vuokatti

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.

Get in

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.

Get around

Electric kick scooters

See also: Finland#By motorised scooter

Finnish Move on East rents electric kick scooters for use in the centre.

By car

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

By taxi

See Kainuu and Eastern Oulu region#By taxi

• Menevä Sotkamo, ☏ +358 50-471-0470 (head of office), toll-free: 0800-02120 (booking), info@meneva.fi. 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

See

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

  

  Sotkamo museum

• 2 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.  

  

  Storages houses in Tervajärvi

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

Do

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

Go next

• 1 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