Welcome to Nervang Wildeness hostel!

In the heart of the northern parts of the Finnish Forest and just next to the Finnskogleden path, lies Gravberget and Nervang Wilderness hostel. This is the ideal place, wether you want to experience great nature with friends or if you want to enjoy the solitude and silence of the wild forest along the norwegian/swedish border known as the Finnish Forest!

The Wilderness hostel is open all year!

Nervang Wilderness hostel consists of two wooden lavos for sleeping and also a longhouse. There is space for 4-6 persons in the smallest lavo set around the big open fireplace in the middle of the lavo. The biggest lavo has space for about 12-14 people. The longhouse has a hall with a long table that can take around 20 people. A kitchen in the longhouse makes sure the visitors can cook the food they bring. The kitchen is equipped with a gas oven with 4 fires and an oven. The kitchen also contains the normal utensils like pots, pans, plates, knives and forks. There is neither running water or electricity in the Wilderness hostel. The visitors will either need to bring water or gather it in the farmhouse on the vicinity.

The Wilderness hostel has a double outside toilet about 20 metres further into the forest from the topmost lavo. There is an easy to find path going there. Here you will also find a washbasin with a water reservoir on the roof of the toilet for some easy personal hygiene.

When you leave the Wilderness hostel you leave it in the way you found it. The visitors wash up, clean the floors, gather the garbage left and such things. The day you leave the hostel you will need to vacate it by 13:00.

Activities: There are many different activities and things to do in the area around Gravberget! We have canoes for rent and we can arrange both shorter and longer guided tours of the area around Gravberget. There is also the possibility for an atmospheric history evening set around a big fire in the lavos! Just up the road there is possibilities of horse rides year round and also trips with sledge and cart in the winter. Click here for more infotmation about our activities! The Wilderness hostel is also a very good choice for staying a night or two for trekkers along the Finnskogleden while passing through Gravberget! The walking possibilities in the enormous Finnish Forest are great and offers walks in forest where you seldom meet another man and can enjoy nature by yourself or in company of friends!

Staying at the Wilderness hostel: We are open as a hostel and when you come as a single traveller or in a small group you pay per person and share with others that might stay with us at the same time. It's also possible to rent the whole hostel for groups.

Renting for parties: It's possible to rent the entire hostel for parties or groups of up to about 20-25 people. It's open to rent the hostel for parties year round. Contact us for more information about possibilities and activities for your party.

Food depot: The closest shop from Gravberget is about 30 kms away, so at the Wilderness Hostel we have a food depot for walkers along the Finnish Forest and for other people staying with us. The food depot is located in the kitchen in the longhouse. You should contact us before you arrive to hear what is in the depot. Most of the food will be canned foods, coffe, tea, soda and easy to store foodstuff. Do not leave the tins and containers as rubbish in nature!

Winter: The wintermonths are extremely cold in Gravberget, and so are the lavos. Those who wish to stay with us at the hostel need to bring equipment suitable for harsh winters. This includes thick clothes, firewood and sleeping bags that can take tempereatures down to minimum -20 degrees Celcius or preferably more. It is not possible to heat the lavos as well as a normal cottage and the visitors should expect cold winter days and nights in wild and beutiful winter nature!

Activities at the Wilderness hostel and in Gravberget

Prices:

• Accomodation, per person: 100,- per night
• Renting the entire hostel : 1000,- per night

• Canoe rental per day : 150,- per canoe
• Canoe rental per week : 750,- per canoe
• Canoe transport to Halsjøen: 100,- per trip
• Transport of canoes to other destinations: price varies

• Pasture for horses : 50,- per day

• Map of the Finnish Forest: 140,- per map (north, mid, south)
• Prices of activities: on request

all prices are inclded VAT

NB! We do not accept creditcards. Cash only.

The Nervang Wilderness Hostel is closed when we are not at the farm. It is thereore neccesary to contact us before you arrive, so that we can open it up for you, if we will not be at home during your stay.

For more info and placing an order, send us an email on kontakt@nervang.com

Routes to Gravberget can be found HERE

For more info about Finnskogsleden and about the Finnish Forest in general, see the homepages of Finnskogen Tourist Organisation

See more pictures from in and around Gravberget here!