Turku Parks Route

This is a pleasant run through four adjacent, centrally located parks in Turku. They’re each fairly modest in size, but added together make for a 7.5 km loop. Use our mapped route as a guide for creating your own route on the parks’ paths. Note: puisto=park

Start right near downtown Turku in Urheilupuisto, which is more of an ‘athletic park’ featuring sports fields & facilities and the Paavo Nurmi Stadium, which has a running track. A loop of the perimeter path is ~1.4 km. Connect to the adjacent Samppalinna Park (Samppalinnanpuisto), a smaller park with a large outdoor swimming pool. Continue east to Vartiovuori Park, which is a bit more wooded, with paths around an observatory and a theatre. Head out the southeast end to connect to the largest of the parks, Kupittaa Park (Kupittaanpuisto). Here, you can do a ~2.5 km loop on allée type paths. The park has sports fields, a pool, ice skating rink (and restrooms). For the return, our route has you retracing your steps through Vartiovuori, and then the river path for 0.5 km, for variety.

Add-Ons: Additional paths in the parks, and more paths along the Aura River.