Accommodation

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station offers accommodation to researchers, students and seminar guests, as well as holidaymakers and other visitors, capacity permitting. The station has the capacity for roughly 50 visitors in four buildings. With larger groups, we collaborate with other accommodation services in the village.
Main Building

The station’s main building is located right on the shore of Lake Kilpisjärvi with views of the Saana and Malla fells, extending to the Swedish fells.

  • Bookings can be made for 15 double rooms with a private toilet and shower.
  • One of the rooms is accessible.
  • The accommodation wing of the main building offers a fully equipped visitor kitchen.

The main building also includes a separate apartment with two double bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a shared bathroom.
Eurola and Wallgren buildings

A separate building on the station grounds is named after botanist Seppo Eurola. Eurola offers a magnificent view directly over Lake Kilpisjärvi. The building accommodates four people in two single rooms and one double room. Visitors have at their disposal a shared kitchen, toilet and shower.

The semi-detached house next to Eurola is named after Professor of Zoology Henrik Wallgren. The northern end of the Wallgren building is made up of three rooms that can accommodate up to seven visitors. The apartment includes a kitchenette and a shared toilet and shower.
The Kiekula building

The Kiekula farm, named after vole researcher Asko “Kieku” Kaikusalo, is situated one kilometre north from the research station on the shore of Lake Kilpisjärvi. The farm includes the station’s boathouse and boat cove. It also hosts the facilities and equipment of the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory.

Kiekula main building (120 m2):

  • Two double rooms
  • One quadruple room
  • A common room, a kitchen, two bathrooms and a sauna

The northern end of the building includes laboratory facilities. Kiekula’s downstairs toilet is shared by visitors and laboratory users.
Booking accommodation

Book your accommodation by completing the preliminary booking form or by contacting our . The office also manages seminar bookings. 

Paying for accommodation

You can request an invoice to pay for your accommodation, or pay at the station by card or in cash. Please handle the transaction no later than on the last weekday of your stay.

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station from the direction of Malla. In the foreground are the yellow Kiekula building and the red lakeshore sauna, while the main building is further away among the lakeside birches.

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station seen from the direction of Malla, with Kiekula's yellow building and the red lakeside sauna in the foreground, and the station further back among the shoreline birches.