Holiday apartment in Krokom – nature, culture and winter activities

Krokom combines nature reserves and waterscapes with traces of culture and winter activities. Between mountains, ancient forests, marshes and lakes, trails lead to viewpoints as well as places where elk trapping, wartime history and local collecting history can be seen. This creates a destination with many different facets, without the individual sites losing their own distinct character.

Nature

The Hotagen Nature Reserve encompasses mountain landscapes, primeval forest and a diverse array of wildlife. Within the same reserve, a hike of just over eight kilometres leads to Almdalen. Ansättån Canyon is a place to experience rapids, potholes and scour holes. The route to Ansättån Canyon alternates between a country road, a forest track and forest terrain.

Offerdalsberg Nature Reserve features a mountain slope with primeval spruce forest and trees up to 300 years old. A trail there leads via a partly strenuous ascent to a viewpoint overlooking the landscape and treetops. There is a birdwatching tower at Mussjön, from which ducks and waders can be observed. Visits to Mussjön for birdwatching are recommended from the end of April to the end of June.

Hasslingsån drops 110 metres from Lake Hasslingen to Hasslingsåfallet. There, a nature trail leads through old forest to an observation tower. At Rengsfallet, the strongly schistose amphibolite transitions into the more easily weathered sandstone around Lake Valsjön.

Tysjöarna Nature Reserve is a Natura 2000 protected area in the municipalities of Krokom and Östersund. A nearly 1,300-metre-long wooden ramp leads from the car park to an observation tower; it is mostly level and has passing places with benches. In Storskogen Nature Reserve, you can hike through a varied landscape with old forest, streams and marshes. Many Red List species depend there on living and dead spruce and deciduous trees.

In Storholmsjö, the Skjälderbodarna buildings may date from the mid-18th century; some buildings are still preserved there today. Also in Storholmsjö, the limestone pond Grönvattnet can shimmer green in the sunlight because of its light-coloured limestone bottom and clear spring water.

Culture

Glösa Älgriket is a one-kilometre-long open-air museum with rock carvings, a settlement of the elk people and elk-trapping pits. The elk-trapping system at Glösa is five kilometres long and comprises 91 pits. Among the rock carvings at Gärde are three depictions of elk; one is life-sized and is described as Sweden’s largest single figurative rock carving.

The Mus-Olles Museum was opened in 1906 by Per-Olof Nilsson, who collected 150,000 objects over a period of more than 75 years. The museum includes a collection of 25,000 packages, including packaging for matches, confectionery, grain, soaps, perfumes, tobacco, snus, spices and coffee.

Skansen Klintaberg in Valsjöbyn in Hotagsbygden is one of the few intact local fortifications from the Second World War. A tour of Skansen Klintaberg explains how the war affected people in Hotagsbygden in Jämtland.

Wången offers a free one-hour digital historical tour in Swedish and English. The tour includes historical newspaper clippings and interviews with several Wången employees. Its circular route is gravelled and can be used on foot, by bicycle or with an electric wheelchair.

Winter

Åkersjön has a ski slope suitable for people of different ages and skill levels. The Krokom Snowmobile Alliance is a collaboration between 13 snowmobile clubs. The municipality of Krokom has around 150 Swedish miles of snowmobile trails.

More local pages: Nälden, Åkersjön, Kaxås, Offerdal, Dvärsätt, Krokom, Laxviken, Föllinge, Ås

To the higher-level travel overview: Jämtland.