After the wars, from the 1920s, there were many large forestry sites in the Ylläs area. At the turn of the 50s/60s, Metsähallitus started a new logging area near the village of Luosu and transferred and erected an old bunkhouse, sauna and warehouse on this beautiful embankment. The red main building and the rustic sauna were the so-called transfer cottages that were moved from one logging site to another. When coming to Luosu, the buildings already moved to their third location, and they were also modified as needed to better fit the plot, for example by changing the positions of the doors.

In the big room – the so-called dull end – the opening of the former main door was blocked up in a rather rough style, which did not really please the requirements of the responsible master. He claimed that it only became “rönölä” and that’s how the place started to be called Rönölä. The old butted door is still admirable in its roughness. Some of the original furniture has also been preserved to this day.

In the forestry culture, a large room was called a dull end. Up to 30 lumberjacks lived in Rönölä during the working season. here was also a drying room for drying their work tools and horse equipment. The superior lived at the other end of the house and this smaller room was called a sharp end. The dull and sharp ends each had their own entrances. Between the men’s rooms, a matron or two lived in their small windowed room with a door to the kitchen and an exit from the kitchen via a verandah. There were no indoors between the different rooms. The kitchen was the kingdom of the matrons, from where they served food to the men’s rooms through the small hatches in the walls, so called the doors of life. Today, the old partitions have been demolished, but the original doors of life and heating stoves are still in place, fulfilling their important function.

If Rönölä’s wall logs could talk, they would have at least a thousand and one stories to tell posterity about the time and life of the lumberjacks and the adventures of those mighty forest workers. Order and peace among the men was regulated by the house law, excerpts of which can be read on the wall board.

There was a big change in forest work, when motorized machines replaced manpower. The forests surrounding Luosujärvi were cut down in a few years and the men left the place. Rönölä remained cold and dilapidated for more than a decade. It was only occasionally visited by camp school children and scout groups. In the 1970s, however, progress was made in connecting Luosu village to the rest of the world. During 1975, lines were built into the electricity network. A few years after that, the current road Luosuntie was completed.

It is to the credit of the Finnish war veterans that Rönölä’s story did not end as a forgotten, worn-out old lumberjack lodging site. The enthusiastic war veterans of Pohjois Savo district repaired and renovated the dilapidated buildings they rented from Metsähallitus and Rönölä served as their ski vacation lodging for a couple of decades.

Veterans from Kuopio and the surrounding area traveled by big bus to their destination in Luosu, thanks to the fact that in the mid-70s the village was finally connected by road. They had also built additional accommodation by thermally insulating part of the storage building for overnight use. A bus load of 50 people came along for the trip. The veterans’ ski trips were also attended by housewives, and they were busy in the kitchen preparing meals for dozens of hard-training skiers.

Metsähallitus gave up the property in the early 2000s and sold it to a private safari and program service company for the needs of its own programs. In those years, Rönölä welcomed and conquered thousands and thousands of visitors from all over the world with its genuine atmosphere. At that stage, Santa Claus was also busy at Christmas time in these corners.