Plan your trip and visit one of the country's beautiful picnic spots! Enjoy the outdoors!

Around the country there are over 350 picnic areas that are managed and operated on behalf of the Swedish Transport Administration.

Standard equipment is a bit different at the various rest areas, but common to them is that you can use them whether you have a disability or not. There are also toilets, information, seating with tables and trash cans.

Transport Administration resting places are not for long-term set motorhomes and caravans (and therefore they usually can not be used as pitches) but for road users who stay a while and relax.

Plan your trip and visit one of the country's beautiful picnic areas and exploit the potential for a break on the journey. Here you can see the Transport Department picnic areas are, what standard they are and what services are offered.

Rest areas are different, but common is that everyone should be adapted both for people with and without disabilities. Usually there are information boards, tables and benches for road users to be able to eat your own food for the journey and the opportunity to throw garbage from the trip. There is usually also the toilets. In part it is also possible to empty the latrines solve. Sometimes there is a restaurant and gas station more near the rest area, but they do not always count as belonging to the rest area, but are purely private facilities. Rest areas should also be managed on a regular basis. At the rest stop building there is a sign, which the contractor must note the last cleaning time and sign who carried out the cleaning.

A dense network of safe rest areas with good capacity, the right functionality and in good condition gives essential for professional drivers to be able to perform efficient transport within the statutory driving and rest times. For a professional driver, the road and its side facilities such as rest areas obviously important part of the work environment, even if the employer has no control over it. Therefore, higher demands on the rest areas on the basis yrkeschaufförers needs (eg sanitary) than for recreational road user needs.

Good rest stops invite to the necessary stops for rest and recreation. Tiredness at the wheel is a common accident factor almost comparable to accidents related to alcohol. So if something does not agree with the way it should be, if you experience any problems at the rest area, please report to [email protected] and / or directly to the Finnish Transport Agency's customer service (Tel: 0771-921921).

Questions and answers about rest areas:

1. Who is responsible for the information boards at rest areas?

- The Finnish Transport Agency is responsible for the information boards. They should be available year round, even for people with disabilities. In some rest areas, the municipality has given permission to set up maps and information about places to visit nearby.

2. How often should the toilets are cleaned?

- Inspection, cleaning and care of the rest area and toilets should be performed twice a day, once between the hours of 6 and 10 and again between the hours of 15 and 20 days during the period from 1 June to 31 August and once per day at other times of the year .On the rest area building there is a sign, which the contractor must note the last cleaning time and sign who has cleaned.

3. Why can not drain a solid human waste at the resting places?

- The rest area map, you can see the resting places are emptying latrines. The plants that are only intended for solving latrines. On larger campsites and some petrol stations it is possible to empty fixed latrines.

4. Is it possible to empty the gray water and solve latrines in all the service areas?

- No, gray water can not drain at all. It must not be mixed with sewage dump.

5. How long is the stand with their caravan or motor home at a rest stop?

- Our resting places are primarily intended for occasional break and rest, not overnight. At the rest areas and signposted parking spaces, it is basically permitted to stand more than 24 hours.