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watch out for the cattle grid where the gravel section meets the highway! alternatively you can use the bike/ped underpass 300 m further south (meaning more gravel, also the gravel is now fairly chunky)

unusually middle-of-nowhere for southwestern Finland, southwestern end has the more typical spread-out farms with fields but the northeastern half really is nothing but forest, not much traffic, gently rolling hills, brand new asphalt throughout except for one section of a few km in the middle, basically no services en route

Smooth surface, barely any traffic, simply sublime cycling.

all new asphalt from 2024

new asphalt from 2024

not much traffic, pretty flat with some sections right next to the river, okay asphalt, part of Hämeen Härkätie (the Tavastia Ox Road), the original road from Turku to Hämeenlinna

not much traffic, pretty flat mostly next to the Paimionjoki river, okay asphalt, bike path in the western end, part of Hämeen Härkätie (the Tavastia Ox Road), the original road from Turku to Hämeenlinna

not much traffic, gently rolling hills, okay asphalt

not too much traffic, gently rolling to flat, okay asphalt, fairly long bike path in the western end, especially the view of the church and the river and the access road section a bit away from the road are nice

goes past the medieval church (cultural landscape of national significance), not much traffic, almost flat, asphalt with plenty of cracks but still smooth

not much traffic, pretty flat, okay asphalt

not too much traffic, almost flat, okay asphalt (southern ~half all new)

not much traffic, almost flat, okay asphalt, check out the turquoise lake around halfway through

not too much traffic, gently rolling hills, okay asphalt, runs alongside the Aura river but you can’t really see it from the road itself anywhere at all

not much traffic, almost flat, asphalt generally okay but with cracks and other damage, short bike path mid-segment at Pöytyä (wouldn’t bother)

not much traffic, twisty but almost flat, asphalt somewhat damaged in many places but still rides pretty well, part of the original road from Turku to Pori/Tampere/Ostrobothnia (continues as gravel north of here) and the River Aura scenic route

little traffic, flat but full of twists and turns (that’s medieval surveying for you), asphalt mostly okay with some sections with cracks and other damage

nice, quiet roads, hills in the north, flat in the south, mostly okay asphalt with ~300 m of roadbike-okay gravel just NW of the crossing with the main road (route 8; alternatively you can just follow that instead for a kilometre or so, very busy but at least the shoulder is fairly wide); bike path in the southern end of the segment (short but continues further basically all the way to Turku)

Pyhän Laurin kirkko (The Church of St. Laurentius) from 1430 is the third largest medieval church in Finland in terms of size and volume.