Ruka, Finland
The Ruka Ski Area, Finland's first ski resort, is located 800 km north of Helsinki. As an established destination resort, it can offer its guests a wide variety of year round activities. The winter scenario in the resort offers a mixture of cross country skiing, dog sledding, snowmobile safaris and downhill skiing. The trail network servicing all these different activities was a specific concern in the circulation planning for the base area as well as the mountain planning.
Expansion of the mountain's downhill facilities, but mostly of the bed base and guest facilities, was the focus for Ecosign's 2002 Master Plan for Ruka. A development capacity analysis for the lands at the base of the ski slopes was completed to find the optimum location of the base area development zones. Two high-density development areas were proposed, each with their own village concept, as well as a day skier base. The Lansi-Ruka village base was designed in more detail. The base area, including the day skier facilities, will have a total capacity for 16,800 guests, of which 10,500 will be skiers.
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