Kiruna Husky Sled Tour: Drive & Ride Combo with 5 Dogs

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Duration4h

GroupUp to 16

PickupAt your hotel

You Get to Hold the Reins on a Real Husky Team in Swedish Lapland

You and a partner take turns driving a five-dog husky team across 18 kilometers of Lapland terrain, with the guide teaching you how to handle the sled and the dogs. The tour lasts about two hours on the trail, includes coffee and cake at the kennel afterward, and lets you help feed and unharness the dogs before returning to Kiruna. Pickup from town is included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Husky sled driving and kennel visit

Meet the dogs and get instructions
Drive sled with 5-6 dogs
Swap driver and passenger roles
Complete approx 18 km sled route
Help feed and unharness dogs
Put dogs back in yards
Enjoy coffee and cake by fire
Ask guides questions
Return to Kiruna or own car

The Experience

Five dogs. Two people. One sled. That's the setup, and halfway through the run you trade places so both of you get to drive. The tour leaves from Kiruna and covers about 18 kilometers of mixed terrain — forest, open ground, the kind of landscape that changes as you move through it. Before you head out, the guide gives you a short instruction on how to handle the team, and you help harness one of the dogs yourself. Then you're moving, and it's just you, your partner, the sled runners cutting into the snow, and the sound of the dogs working.

The whole thing takes about two hours depending on conditions. You're out on the trail for most of that, not sitting in a lodge or watching from a distance. When you come back to the kennel, there's coffee and cake waiting, and you help unharness the dogs and put them back in their yards — the guide encourages full participation, so you're not just a spectator at the end either. It's the kind of tour where you leave having actually done something, not just seen something.

Pickup and drop-off from designated meeting points in Kiruna are included, so you don't need to arrange your own transport. The tour runs in all weather, which means you need to dress for whatever conditions are happening that day — but that's also why the dogs are out there in the first place. It operates year-round, though obviously the snow and light change dramatically between seasons.

What’s included

Pickup and drop-off from designated meeting points in Kiruna, a short driving instruction from the guide, harness and drive a team of five huskies across an 18-kilometer trail, coffee and cake at the kennel, and the chance to help feed, unharness and return the dogs to their yards. All taxes, fees and activities are included.

Good to know

Moderate physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availableInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Husky Tours Lapland

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to actually drive the dogs yourself rather than just ride along — the two-person swap means both of you get hands-on time with the team, and the kennel work at the end keeps you involved the whole way through.