Lapplandsleden is a new 190 kilometer long hiking trail in the north of Sweden. There hasn’t been much information about it online yet since the opening of the trail so I decided it was about time to write a post about this amazing trail that shows why Lappland is such an amazing place to hike. Note this post is about the Lapplandsleden summer hiking trail and not about the winter skiing trail. For information about this trail, please refer to Naturkartan. Coverphoto: Andreas Karlsson Lapplandsleden is a 190 kilometer long thruhike from Hemavan in the north to Borgafjäll in the south of the province of Västerbotten län. The trail was…

Five years ago, when I finished the hike Ammarnäs – Hemavan on Kungsleden, I said: “one day I want to live here”. Unfortunately, houses in Hemavan are unaffordable as it is a winter sports village where the rich elite of Sweden has a second home. Or a third. But … I’m lucky that my partner (not a rich elite haha) lives in Hemavan and that I now spend about half of my time there. So over the past summers, I have been on several adventures in the amazing Vindelfjällen Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Europe. In this article I share 6 beautiful hikes in Hemavan with you! The…

I once came across the Jämtlandstriangeln on Pinterest and I saved it ‘for someday.’ In the summer of 2021, my hiking buddy and I were at the Höga Kusten and we actually planned to go on a hike there. Spontaneously, we however decided that we would rather end our hiking holiday in Sweden by a hike in the high mountains on the border with Norway instead. And so we drove from the trailhead at the Höga Kusten, straight through Sweden back to the mountains and hiked the Jämtlandstriangeln: perhaps the most beautiful short multi day hike in Sweden! With a total length of 46 kilometers, the Jämtlandstriangeln is a relatively…