Ähtäri

Ähtäri (Swedish: Etseri) is a town in Southern Ostrobothnia.

Understand

Ähtäri, like Ranua in Northern Finland, is a town off the largest thoroughfares that is famous for a large zoo.

Get in

By train

Local trains come in from Seinäjoki, there may be trains from Jyväskylä too. There's a railway station in central Ähtäri, and another one next to the zoo.

By car

Ähtäri is at the junction of highways 18 between Vaasa and Jyväskylä and 68 between Virrat and Jakobstad.

By bus

There are buses from Virrat, Seinäjoki and Alavus.

Get around

See

Ähtäri Zoo
  • 🌍 Ähtäri Zoo (Ähtärin eläinpuisto), Karhunkierros 150 (in the village Inha, 5 km east of the centre, near highway 18; two daily trains in each direction between Jyväskylä and Seinäjoki), ☏ +358 30-621-50, . 10:00–20:00. Wildlife, mostly species of the taiga, such as bears, wolves and wolverines, and at the rare end: snow leopards (the two pandas left for China in 2024). Restaurant (M–Sa), hotel, cabin (by the bears), camping (tent/RV/cabin). €36/21, €34/19 online, two days €46/29 (children: 3–14 years). 
  • 🌍 Pirkanpohja art gallery (Pirkanpohjan taidekeskus), Ähtärintie 36. Art gallery. (updated Aug 2023)

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