Where are some interesting places with wildlife, nature-views, and/or historical sites in the very North of Finland, Norway and Sweden?
We'll be driving from Östersund (Sweden) to Narvik (Norway), Hammerfest (Norway), Kirkenes (Norway) and Haparanda (Sweden), in that order. We'll be making the trip next summer.
These are quite long drives so we'll be looking to stop in places along the way. We'll have a tent and will probably be making liberal usage of Allemansrätten.
I'm looking for places that either have a lot of natural beauty, or have some historical significance. Or, any places that might have things we probably won't be able to see anywhere else in the world (or even anywhere else in Scandinavia). I realise that part is probably unlikely in the mostly uninhabited North.
We have three weeks to make this trip which means we can take our time, so we'd love to visit small out of the way places that have things we can take nice pictures of. I can see there are a lot of national parks in those areas, so I'm sure there must be cool places to stay.
I've already been to Abisko National park so I don't want to go there this time.
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One popular place for hiking and nature views—as far as Finland's peaks go—is the Saana fell. It's located far in Finland's northwestern "arm", close to the point where the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian borders meet. (On the other hand, at that point you'll surely have seen far more impressive views while driving up the Norwegian coast.)
There are also four Finnish national parks at least somewhat near your planned route (I'm linking to outdoors.fi which has lots more info and shows them on the map):
I haven't been to any of these places myself, unfortunately, so I can't give any specific first-hand recommendations. But hopefully you'll find those pointers interesting anyway.
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- Lemmenjoki.
- Urho Kekkonen National Park.
- Pyhä-Luosto.
- Bothnian Bay.
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