Where to Stay in Juupajoki, Pirkanmaa

Juupajoki is known as a small forest municipality of Pirkanmaa, its centre at Korkeakoski and its name taken from the rapids on the river. The Hyytiälän metsäasema studies the woods. Forest runs to every edge.

The old Kallenaution kestikievari kept travellers on the inland road, the wooden Juupajoen kirkko holds the parish, and the Lylyn rautatieasema still marks the railway through this corner of south-western Finland.

The Juupajoen kirkko is the landmark of Korkeakoski, the wooden parish church at the centre of Juupajoki in Pirkanmaa. Forest and railway frame the rest. The Hyytiälän metsäasema studies the surrounding woods, the Lylyn rautatieasema stands by the line at Lyly, and the old Kallenaution kestikievari kept the inland coaching road.

The Koskenjalan kenkä- ja nahkamuseo and the Korkeakosken tehdasyhdyskunta recall the shoe and leather works of this south-western Finnish corner.

Juupajoki grew up by the road and the rapids. A scattered settlement of forest farms spread across this corner of Pirkanmaa, the parish gathering at Korkeakoski where the river drops, and the old Kallenaution kestikievari served travellers on the long inland coaching road. The forest ruled the country.

Trade ran by cart and later by rail, and the line through Lyly brought the Lylyn rautatieasema to the woods, tying Juupajoki into the wider network of south-western Finland. The parish was set on its own footing when Juupajoki was chartered in 1913, a forest municipality of farmland, timber and water. Industry took root at the rapids.

The shoe and leather works grew into the Korkeakosken tehdasyhdyskunta, its trade now kept in the Koskenjalan kenkä- ja nahkamuseo, while the science of the forest gathered at the Hyytiälän metsäasema among the pinewoods. The wooden Juupajoen kirkko held the parish through it all, and Korkeakoski settled into its long role as the centre of this Pirkanmaa municipality.

Juupajoki lies in the forest country of Pirkanmaa, in south-western Finland. The river and its rapids give the municipality its name, the centre at Korkeakoski gathered where the water drops while pinewoods and lakes spread out around it. Forest covers most of the land.

The Hyytiälän metsäasema sits among the woods that the municipality is known for, the railway runs through Lyly past the Lylyn rautatieasema, and farms and timber fill the rest of this south-western Finnish corner.

Juupajoki has the cold inland climate of Pirkanmaa, its winters long and snowbound over the forests and frozen lakes of south-western Finland. The lakes freeze hard each winter. Summers run mild and green across the pinewoods around Korkeakoski and the Hyytiälän metsäasema, the long northern light drawing out the short warm season among the trees, before the dark and the deep cold close back over the forest.

Juupajoki is reached by road and rail through the forests of Pirkanmaa. Most arrive by car. The roads run from the larger towns of south-western Finland to the church centre at Korkeakoski, while the railway line through Lyly still passes the Lylyn rautatieasema in the woods.

Buses link it to the wider region, and from there the Finnish road and rail network reaches across Pirkanmaa to Korkeakoski and the forests around the Hyytiälän metsäasema.