Roads in Finland - Other Roads

Other Roads

Many private roads may be used as public ones, and may have different speed limits and different regulations from public roads. These are usually dead ends in the countryside. Private roads are maintained by the community using them, and maybe not be public rights of way (and denied communal subsidies). There is about 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi) of these servicing the inhabitants of rural areas. Cottage roads comprise about as much and forest roads about 120,000 kilometres (75,000 mi). Some of these are not public rights of way, which is usually indicated by a sign. Forest roads are not regularly maintained, nor addressed for emergency services. Some ice roads, which form seasonally, depending on temperature, are maintained by the state, the longest one being the 7 km (4 mi) Koli Ice Road, which cuts 50 km (31 mi) off the distance between Lieksa and Koli. Private ice roads are also sometimes built by the inhabitants of lakeland and archipelago.