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Sweden and Finland by campervan: lakes, coast, right to roam
Sweden and Finland have the most relaxed camping rules in Europe and roads with nothing on them. Here is two weeks from Stockholm around the Gulf of Bothnia, with the ferries that close the loop.
Plan this trip1 Stockholm
Photo by Steven Lek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.5 million in the metropolitan area. Wikipedia
Start here; the campsite at Bredäng is on the metro line.
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2 Uppsala
Photo by Axebackman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Wikipedia
Day two: the cathedral city and the university, then north along the coast on the E4.
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3 High Coast
Photo by Rialfver, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The High Coast is a part of the coast of Sweden on the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Ångermanland province of northeast Sweden, centered in the area of the municipalities of Kramfors, Härnösand and Örnsköldsvik. Wikipedia
Days three and four: Sweden's only dramatic coastline, a World Heritage site with campsites in the fishing villages.
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4 Luleå
Photo by Andreas Harnemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Luleå is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Wikipedia
Day five: the top of the Gulf, with the church town at Gammelstad.
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5 Rovaniemi
Photo by Jari Kolehmainen, Flickr user lindstormORG, Idobi, Andriychenko, Biergerry, Arkt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Rovaniemi is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Lapland. It is located near the Arctic Circle in the northern interior of the country. Wikipedia
Day six: over the Finnish border to the Arctic Circle.
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6 Oulu
Photo by Estormiz (incl. all the photographs montage is made of), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Oulu is a major port city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia. It is located on the north-western coast of the country, at the mouth of the River Oulu. Wikipedia
Day seven: back down the Finnish coast to Oulu, with the market square and the islands.
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7 The Finnish lakeland
Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Finnish Lakeland or the Finnish lake district is a large landscape region in central eastern Finland. The hilly, forest-covered landscape of Lakeland Finland's lake plateau is dominated by drumlins and by long sinuous eskers. Wikipedia
Days eight to eleven: Kuopio, Savonlinna and its castle, thousands of lakes, and a sauna at every campsite.
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8 Helsinki
Photo by Michal Pise, Michal.Pise, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Helsinki, until about 1930 known in English by its Swedish name of Helsingfors, is the capital and most populous city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. Wikipedia
Days twelve and thirteen: the capital, then the ferry to Tallinn or back to Stockholm.
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Riding or driving it
Around 2,500 km in two weeks. Roadlegs shows the daylight for each day, which matters here: in June the sun barely sets, and in September it is dark by eight.
Open the plan in Roadlegs How the planner handles this vehicle.
About the facts and photos
The descriptions in italics are the opening sentences of the Wikipedia article for each place, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, fetched on 6 October 2026. Photos are from Wikimedia Commons under the licence named beside each one. "Written about in N languages" counts the Wikipedia editions that have an article, from Wikidata; it is a measure of how well known a place is, not a rating. Everything else is the author's own opinion. Roads close with the seasons: check before you go.
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