Bus Transportation from Kajaani to Kainuu Orienteering Week and Kainuu Trail Events
As part of the Organizing Responsible Event in Kainuu project, we offer free bus transportation to Kainuu Orienteering Week and Kainuu Trail for visitors coming from Kajaani.
Bus Transportation to Kainuu Trail – June 28, 2025
We offer three different bus services for free as follows:
- Kainuu Trail Race Bus 1:
- Route (round trip): Kajaani – Vuokatti – Ristijärvi – Hyrynsalmi – Suomussalmi (Ämmänsaari) – Peranka – Hossa
- Departure: 04:00 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Stops:
- 04:35, Vuokatti Sport (road 76, Urheiluopisto 1, bus stop)
- 04:45, Sotkamo Bus Station
- 05:30, Ristijärvi (road 5/E63, Ristijärvi th P, bus stop)
- 05:50, Hyrynsalmi (road 5/E63, Istonniemi, bus stop)
- 06:20, Suomussalmi (road 5/E63, Jalonniemi)
- 07:30, Hossa Visitor Centre
- Return departure: 19:00
- Arrival in Kajaani: 22:40
- Note! Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
- Kainuu Trail Race Bus 2
- Route (round trip): Kajaani – Ristijärvi – Hyrynsalmi – Suomussalmi – Hossa
- Departure: 05:45 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Stops:
- 06:20, Ristijärvi (road 5/E63, Ristijärvi th P, bus stop)
- 06:40, Hyrynsalmi (road 5/E63, Istonniemi, bus stop)
- 07:10, Suomussalmi (road 5/E63, Jalonniemi)
- 08:30, Hossa Visitor Centre
- Return departure: 17:30
- Arrival in Kajaani: 20:15
- Note! Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
- Kainuu Trail Race Bus 3
- Route (round trip): Kajaani – Ristijärvi – Hyrynsalmi – Suomussalmi – Hossa
- Departure: 06:30 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Stops:
- 07:05, Ristijärvi (road 5/E63, Ristijärvi th P, bus stop)
- 07:25, Hyrynsalmi (road 5/E63, Istonniemi, bus stop)
- 07:55, Suomussalmi (road 5/E63, Jalonniemi)
- 09:15, Hossa Visitor Centre
- Return departure: 15:30
- Arrival in Kajaani: 18:15
- Note! Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
Bus tickets for Kainuu Trail transportation can be reserved from the KOW online store. Tickets will be available in April 2025.
Bus Transportation to Kainuu Orienteering Week – June 29, July 1, July 3, and July 4, 2025
One bus service per competition day for free as follows:
- Kainuu Orienteering Week Bus – Sunday, June 29, 2025
- Route: Kajaani – Vuokatti – Competition Centre – Vuokatti – Kajaani
- Departure: 10:00 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Arrival at Competition Centre: 11:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Return departure: 17:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Arrival in Kajaani: 18:00
- Attention!
- There are no intermediate stops along the bus route, so tickets can only be reserved for the journey from Kajaani to the competition centre!
- Otrantie 7 B – Approximately 700 meters on foot from the final stop/return transport departure stop to the competition centre.
- Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
- Kainuu Orienteering Week Bus – Tuesday, July 1, 2025
- Route: Kajaani – Vuokatti – Competition Centre – Vuokatti – Kajaani
- Departure: 09:00 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Arrival at Competition Centre: 10:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Return departure: 16:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Arrival in Kajaani: 17:00
- Attention!
- There are no intermediate stops along the bus route, so tickets can only be reserved for the journey from Kajaani to the competition centre!
- Otrantie 7 B – Approximately 700 meters on foot from the final stop/return transport departure stop to the competition centre.
- Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
- Kainuu Orienteering Week Bus – Thursday, July 3, 2025
- Route: Kajaani – Vuokatti – Competition Centre – Vuokatti – Kajaani
- Departure: 09:00 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Arrival at Competition Centre: 10:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Return departure: 16:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Arrival in Kajaani: 17:00
- Attention!
- There are no intermediate stops along the bus route, so tickets can only be reserved for the journey from Kajaani to the competition centre!
- Otrantie 7 B – Approximately 700 meters on foot from the final stop/return transport departure stop to the competition centre.
- Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
- Kainuu Orienteering Week Bus – Friday, July 4, 2025
- Route: Kajaani – Vuokatti – Competition Centre – Vuokatti – Kajaani
- Departure: 08:00 (Kajaani Travel Center)
- Arrival at Competition Centre: 09:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Return departure: 15:00 (Ohravaarantie & Otrantie intersection)
- Arrival in Kajaani: 16:00
- Attention!
- There are no intermediate stops along the bus route, so tickets can only be reserved for the journey from Kajaani to the competition centre!
- Otrantie 7 B – Approximately 700 meters on foot from the final stop/return transport departure stop to the competition centre.
- Tickets are limited – 50 per bus!
Bus tickets for Kainuu Orienteering Week transportation can be reserved from the KOW online store. Tickets will be available in April 2025.
Please note that a separate bus ticket is required for each competition day. Add tickets for all the days you need transportation to your shopping cart.
Arrival at the Competition Centre by KOW Competition Bus from the Sotkamo and Vuokatti Area
If you are arriving at the event from the Sotkamo, Katinkulta, or Vuokatti area, we strongly recommend using the KOW competition bus. You can find the schedules, routes, and ticket prices at www.rastiviikko.fi -> 2025 -> Spectators -> Arriving and Bus Transportations page.
Organizing Responsible Events In Kainuu -hanke 2025
The project is supported through the Piiparinmäki Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund, operated by Nuveen Infrastructure.
The Organizing Responsible Events in Kainuu project aims to increase local participation and promote responsibility.
Through this project, we support, encourage, lower the threshold, and inspire local people – including families with children, children and youth, adults, and the elderly – to participate in our sports events. With the help of the project’s funding, we aim to enable local residents to take part in our events despite the current challenging economic situation. Additionally, we seek to encourage local people to engage in physical activities, thereby improving their health, which in turn creates long-term positive effects on the region.
For the Kainuu Orienteering Week event, the primary target groups are families with children, children and youth, adults, and older orienteers in veteran categories. For the Kainuu Trail event, the key target groups are youth aged 12–17, adults, and elderly trail runners.
Furthermore, the project will enhance the sustainability of both events, with a particular focus on environmental responsibility. We will also publish a new guide for organizing ecologically responsible outdoor sports events for the Kainuu Trail event. This guide will be freely available for everyone to download from our website.
Kainuu Orienteering Week Association (Kainuun Rastiviikko ry) is a non-profit organization that organizes the Kainuu Orienteering Week and Kainuu Trail events in the Kainuu region of Finland.
The Kainuu Trail Hossa National Park (Finland) trail running event will take place at Hossa National Park on June 28, 2025. The event venue address is Jatkonsalmentie 6, Suomussalmi.
The 57th Kainuu Orienteering Week will be held in Vuokatti, Sotkamo, Finland, from June 29 to July 4, 2025. The event venue address is Otrantie 7 B, Sotkamo.
Kainuu Orienteering Week into the digital age -project 2019-2021 (Kainuun Rastiviikko digiaikaan -hanke)
The Kainuu Orienteering Week in the digital age -project is a development project designed to develop Kainuu Orienteering Week digital services.
Kainuu Orienteering Week has been held for more than 50 years since 1966, always in the first week of July. It is one of the largest sporting events in Finland, gathering 5,000-7500 different visitors to Kainuu every year. Calculated as the number of daily visitors, the number of visitors to the entire event during the week is 20,000 to 30,000 visitors per year. The number of visitors has remained stable in recent years. The event is quite significant for the Kainuu region from a regional economic point of view, leaving 1-2 million euros annually in the region. The majority of the event's participants (approximately 95%) will take place outside the region, either from other parts of Finland or abroad.
Kainuun Rastiviikko ry is responsible for the development of Kainuu Orienteering Week and the coordination of its organization. The members of the association are the clubs that organize Kainuu Orienteering Week every other year: Kajaani Suunnistajat, Kuhmon Peurat, Puolangan Ryhti, Sotkamon Jymy and Suomussalmen Rasti.
If Kainuu Orienteering Week is to be considered an attractive and top-notch event for tourists in Kainuu in the future, the arrangements and services of the event will now require significant investments in the development of digital services. At the moment, almost all of Rastiviikko's digital services are already old-fashioned, and in addition, Rastiviikko lacks modern operating methods and services.
The objectives of the project are:
1) comprehensive newzation of the website (incl. E-commerce) into a modern and future-oriented one
2) the development of the event's accommodation mediation activities and system to be modern and to support future changes
3) designing the graphic look of the event
In order to achieve the goals, the event's website (incl. E-commerce) will be renewed during the project, the event's accommodation brokerage activities will be developed and a graphic look will be designed for the event.
The total budget of the project is € 26,950, the project is funded by Elävä Kainuu leader and Oulujärvi leader.
The project measures target five municipalities in Kainuu: Kajaani, Kuhmo, Puolanka, Sotkamo and Suomussalmi.
The implementation period of the project is 1 March 2019 - 31 December 2020, an extension of the implementation period has been applied for with an amendment application, the new implementation period of the project ends on 31 December 2021.
More information: Minna Rönkkö, puh. 044-5123517
Email: info@rastiviikko.fi
