Now this is an official beach and marked on the Finnish map as such. But I have to say it is far out and probably not used by anyone. Google doesn't know about it, for instance. Except when we started undressing on the pier, three people walking showed up, and boats parked in front of the beach!
This beach is in Lohjansaari on the Paavola strait. The coordinates are N 60.225734 E 23.911124. Once you enter Lohjansaari, you have to exit the bigger roads on a tiny (almost no crossing places) cottage road. And at the end the road gets mushy. But in the end there's a grass parking lot and a gate. You walk a couple of hundred meters own the road, and you arrive at the beach.
There's a crude changing cabinet and earlier on the road something that looked like a dry toilet. But I wouldn't use either one, and that's why we changed clothes on the pier and by the table that's on the shore.
There's a rowing boat that you could rent.
But the beach itself is very nice, secluded from winds, sandy bottom, and the pier is in excellent condition. There's a bit of grass growing from the water so the swimming area is not that large until you get further out. But there's quite a bit of boat traffic on the strait so be careful swimming too far.
And we were on Lohjasaari to begin with to see the Paavola Oak Tree. This is general thought to be the finest Finnish tree. There's a parking lot (at N 60.22762 E 23.88329) and trail leading to the trees which itself is at N 60.226397 E 23.890825. More information available in Wikipedia and Antti Huttunen's excellent article in Retkipaikka.
Photos from the beach:
And the tree:
This article has also been published at Planetswimmer.com here. Read the full series of sauna and swimming stories from planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool, urban exploration articles at theurbanexplorer.net, or all blog articles from Blogspot. Photos and text (c) 2026 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. Photos in this article were taken when the beach was empty.
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