Ice fishing, a national park or a frozen canyon. We compare those days on the sister site for the main activity.
The short answer
Snowshoe combinations from Rovaniemi pair the walk with ice fishing on a frozen lake, a full day in Riisitunturi National Park or a hike to the frozen waterfalls of Korouoma. Each of them is compared on the sister site for the main activity, linked below. If the walk in the forest is all you want, a half-day snowshoe tour from the table on this page is the shorter and simpler choice.
Pick one day, or the first and last day of your stay in Rovaniemi. We look up the booking calendar of every snowshoe tour on this site and list the ones with places left.
Clothing: Overall, boots
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Clothing: Bring warm layers
Clothing: Clothes, boots on request
These are the half-day snowshoe tours from Rovaniemi with the most reviews: a walk, a fire, back in town in about three to four and a half hours. Keep them in mind as the baseline when you look at the longer combinations further down.
| Photo | Tour | Pickup | Total time | Clothing | Food | Price p.p. | Reviews | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest snowshoe walk with campfire BBQ NordicUnique Travels | Hotels within 10 km | 3 h | Overall, boots | Sausages, blueberry juice | €105 | ★ 4.4 (805) | Book now |
| Wilderness snowshoe trip in a group of 8 Wild about Lapland | Not in the centre | 3 h | Clothing, boots | Campfire snack | €89 | ★ 4.6 (119) | Book now |
| Snowshoe walk with lunch in a teepee ToTheNorth | Your hotel | 3 h | Bring warm layers | Lunch in a teepee | €75 | ★ 4.9 (65) | Book now |
| Small-group forest walk with BBQ and photos Into North | Within 10 km | 4.5 h | Clothes, boots on request | Sausages, berry juice | €98 | ★ 5.0 (46) | Book now |
Each snowshoe price is per adult and is read from GetYourGuide or Viator when the page opens, so a listing with a hotel surcharge or a second option can cost more on the booking page.
Each card starts with pickup and clothing. Open it for the full list of what is included and who the operator turns away.
Overall and boots are lent, and the walk ends with sausages and hot blueberry juice at a fire. Needs at least two guests to run, four on Sundays.
A guided snowshoe walk in the forest near Rovaniemi, possibly across a lake, followed by a campfire barbecue. The operator describes it as suitable for small children and people who do little sport. No distance or walking time is given.
Pickup, clothing, food and age limits as the operator lists them on the booking page.
Winter clothing and boots included, fire-making shown by the guide. No pickup in the city centre: from there you walk to the meeting point.
A relaxed snowshoe walk into the forest with an introduction to walking on snowshoes and some basic survival and fire-making skills. The guide lights a fire and serves a snack. The operator recommends bringing a camera.
Pickup, clothing, food and age limits as the operator lists them on the booking page.
A forest about 30 km outside Rovaniemi and a lunch cooked over the fire in a teepee. Dress in your own warm layers.
After pickup, the van drives about 30 km out of Rovaniemi to a forest for the snowshoe walk. Afterwards the group gathers around a fire in a teepee for lunch, then drives back and is dropped at each accommodation.
Pickup, clothing, food and age limits as the operator lists them on the booking page.
At most 8 guests, sausages and warm berry juice by the fire, and a few photos from the guide afterwards. Ask for clothes and boots when you book.
The guide drives to a forest area not far from Rovaniemi for a snowshoe walk, with a look at animal tracks along the way. Afterwards the group sits by the fire for sausages and hot juice while the guide talks about Finnish nature and local culture. The operator rates it easy.
Pickup, clothing, food and age limits as the operator lists them on the booking page.
On these half-day tours the snowshoes take you out onto a frozen lake, where the group drills holes and fishes through the ice; one of them drives about 20 km north of Rovaniemi and walks 2 km across the lake. Ice conditions depend on the temperature, so the guide checks the ice first. Visit Rovaniemi gives December to March as the months when the waters are generally frozen. The tours, their pickup rules and what they serve at the fire are compared on rovaniemi-icefishing.com.
Riisitunturi lies about 150 km east of Rovaniemi, roughly two hours by road, and is known for spruces bent under heavy loads of snow and ice. The trips there take a full day and walk a few kilometres in the park, sometimes on snowshoes. Pickup, walking distance and group size are compared on riisitunturi.com.
Korouoma is a canyon south-east of Rovaniemi where waterfalls freeze into icefalls in winter. The walk goes down into the canyon and back up, and the tours from Rovaniemi take a full day. They are compared on korouomawaterfalls.com.
Evening snowshoe walks with a chance of aurora belong to this site and are on the northern lights snowshoe page. If you would rather chase clear sky by minibus, the tours are on rovaniemi-northernlights.com.
A combination saves a second pickup, but each part is shorter than on a tour of its own. Some reviewers of the half-day snowshoe tours already find the time on snowshoes short; on a combined day it shares the hours with fishing, a drive or a canyon. If snowshoeing is the reason for your trip, book it on its own.
Yes. Several half-day tours walk on snowshoes to a frozen lake and fish through the ice. They are compared on rovaniemi-icefishing.com.
Some do. The trips walk a few kilometres in the national park, about two hours by road from Rovaniemi. Details are on riisitunturi.com.
Because each of them is compared in more detail on the site for its main activity. This site keeps to tours where snowshoeing is the point of the trip.
