Karlstad-Lillängshamn-(Båtbuss)-Borvik-Karlstad

Karlstad-Lillängshamn-(Båtbuss)-Borvik-Karlstad (65 km)

A spe­ci­al expe­ri­ence that is avai­lab­le for a few weeks during the sum­mer. Then you have the option of taking the boat bus from Lillängs­ham­nen in Ham­marö to Borg­vik. From the­re you follow a sec­tion of the Uni­ons­le­den back to Karl­stad. Requires liters more from the cyclist and the bike but offers a lot of cycling expe­ri­ence. Don’t for­get to look at the histo­ric cul­tural envi­ron­ment in Borg­vik. Or take a dip on the way.

Gra­vel cycling between Borg­vik and Karl­stad along the Uni­ons­le­den is a fan­tastic expe­ri­ence for cycling ent­husi­asts. Uni­ons­le­den is a well-marked cyc­le path that runs through beau­ti­ful forest are­as and along lakes and streams. The jour­ney between Borg­vik and Karl­stad is approx­i­ma­tely 70 km and takes approx­i­ma­tely 4 hours to cycle.

During the trip you will pass through sce­nic are­as with many chan­ces to see wild­li­fe such as moo­se, deer and birds. You will also pass histo­ri­cal pla­ces such as Borg­vik Cast­le and Åkers­berg Church.

Gra­vel cycling is per­fect for tho­se who want to com­bi­ne exer­ci­se with enjoying natu­re and adven­tu­re. But it is impor­tant to be pre­pa­red that the road can be a bit chal­lenging at times with rocky and une­ven sec­tions. It is the­re­fo­re impor­tant to have a bicyc­le with good tires and to have enough food and water with you.

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Klarälven Älvåker 1600

Karlstad — Apertin — Dömle (68 km)

A slight­ly long­er trip through open country­si­de on country roads with litt­le traf­fic. Out­stan­ding views through an inte­re­s­ting cul­tural envi­ron­ment and just enough distan­ce between the stops. Or why not split the tour and drop in at Apte­rin or Döm­le Herrgård.

A bike ride along the Kla­räl­ven on a road bike or electric bike is a fan­tastic expe­ri­ence. The stretch between Karl­stad, Aper­tin, Döm­le and back to Karl­stad offers beau­ti­ful views of the river and sur­rounding lands­cape. The jour­ney begins in Karl­stad, whe­re you dri­ve along the cyc­le path along the river. After a few kilo­me­ters you come to Aper­tin, a char­ming vil­lage with a vari­e­ty of restau­rants and shops. Here you can take a bre­ak and enjoy food and drink befo­re con­ti­nu­ing your jour­ney towards Dömle.

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Hammarö byvägen

Hammarö runt (26 km)

An easy bike ride along the Kla­rävl­ven, per­fect for a day of picnic­king, bird watching, swim­ming, good food and histo­ric sur­roundings. Takes a round from Karl­stad cen­ter over the old Jakobs­berg bridge, along Ham­marö’s bymyljö­vä­gen, down to Lillängs­ham­nen, to Mör­rud­den, past Skärd­gård­mu­se­um and cul­tural envi­ron­ments around Ham­marö church.

At Grytud­den you will find “Saint Olof’s pot”. It is a so-cal­led giant pot from the end of the ice age.

The pot is part of a cate­go­ry of sac­ri­fi­ci­al sour­ces, which bear the name of the saint Olof. The pil­grims came in boats across Lake Vänern and offe­red coins in the sac­ri­fi­ci­al well out of gra­ti­tu­de for having com­ple­ted the sea jour­ney. After­wards, they went to Ham­marö church, near which they could spend the night, and then con­ti­nue the pil­gri­mage with Nida­ros (Trond­heim) as their destination.

Ham­marö church is one of Värm­lan­d’s beau­ti­ful clap­board chur­ches. That the pla­ce has been impor­tant for a very long time is clear from the buri­al ground and the jud­ge’s ring, which is loca­ted approx­i­ma­tely 800 meters nort­hwest of the church.

North of Ham­marö church is Ham­mar’s pro­mon­to­ry. Here is Ham­marö’s lar­gest and Värm­lan­d’s second lar­gest buri­al ground from the Iron Age. North of the­re is a refe­re­e’s ring, rat­her bad­ly dama­ged after sand mining. The nine sto­nes, which were ori­gi­nal­ly 12, no long­er form a regu­lar ring, but the ori­gi­nal appea­ran­ce of the site can be gues­sed. Wit­hin the jud­ge’s ring the­re was a cot­tage in the ear­ly 1800s.

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Biking-Värmland-Unionsleden

Unionsleden (350 km)

The Uni­ons­le­den is 350 km long and stret­ches from Nors­ka Moss in the west to Karl­stad in the east. When you cyc­le the Uni­ons­le­den, you will be struck by the beau­ti­ful, vari­ed lands­cape. One moment you’­re cycling through vil­la­ges, the next along one of our lakes. You will cyc­le on win­ding dirt roads through forests and open lands­ca­pes with gra­zing animals.

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Rottneros (66 km)

Eine entspre­chend anspruch­svol­le Fahrt ent­lang des Fry­ken. Sowohl auf Asphalt als auch auf Schot­ter. Kom­bi­ni­e­ren Sie die­sen Aus­flug mit einer Zug­fa­hrt von Karl­stad, um den Rott­neros-Park zu erle­ben, und neh­men Sie dann den Fahr­rad­weg zurück nach Karl­stad, vor­bei an Kils Kir­che und Frykenbad.

Rott­neros Park ist ein Park in Rott­neros in der Geme­in­de Sun­ne. Der Skulp­tu­ren­park ist einer der größ­ten Nor­deu­ro­pas und nach der Vision ang­e­legt, dass Skulp­tur und Umge­bung zusam­menwir­ken sol­len. Der Park ist heu­te im Besitz von Stif­tel­sen Gre­ta und Svan­te Påhl­sons Anden­ken und wird von der kom­mu­na­len Gesell­schaft Rott­neros Park Träd­gård AB betrieben.

Das Rad­fa­h­ren auf unbe­fes­tig­ten Straßen ist eine ande­re Erfa­h­rung als das Rad­fa­h­ren auf Asphalt, da es ein land­schaft­li­che­res und entspan­nen­de­res Gefühl ver­mit­telt. Die Rei­se beginnt im Rott­neros Park, wo Sie dem Rad­weg ent­lang des Flus­ses Kla­räl­ven und durch Wald­ge­bi­e­te folgen kön­nen. Wäh­rend der Fahrt dur­ch­que­ren Sie kle­i­ne Dör­fer und kön­nen wun­der­schö­ne Aus­blic­ke auf die umli­e­gen­de Land­schaft genießen.

 

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Klarälvsbanan start

Klarälvsbanan (90 km)

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Ham­marö – Karl­stad 10 kilometer
Karl­stad – Fors­ha­ga 20 kilometer
Fors­ha­ga – Deje 10 kilometer
Deje – Ran­sä­ter 20 kilo­me­ter
Ran­sä­ter – Munk­fors 10 kilometer
Munk­fors – Hag­fors 30 kilometer
Hag­fors – Eks­hä­rad 20 kilometer
Eks­hä­rad – Stöl­let 30 kilometer
Stöl­let – Syss­le­bäck 40 kilometer

The Kla­rälvs­ba­nan runs along a 90 km paved and car-free embank­ment. Here you tra­vel from an open agricul­tural lands­cape in the south to the dark and fri­end­ly forest in the north.

The Kla­rälvs­ba­nan winds straight through the natu­re of Värm­land, from Karl­stad in the south to Hag­fors in the north. On the way you pass in turn Fors­ha­ga, Deje, Ran­sä­ter, Munk­fors, Hag­fors and Udde­holm. Kla­rälvs­ba­nan is a disu­sed embank­ment, com­ple­tely asphal­ted and gua­ran­teed car-free. On the Kla­rälvs­ba­nan you tra­vel from an open agricul­tural lands­cape in the south to the dark and fri­end­ly forest in the north.

In Udde­holm, the paved Kla­rälvs­ba­nan ends and the Kla­rälvs­le­den takes over. From Hag­fors and up to Syss­le­bäck you can follow the Kla­rälvs­le­den through the Värm­land landscape.

At the Kla­rälvs­ba­nan’s sout­hern entran­ce, the­re is a sign­pos­ted cyc­le path that stret­ches from Kropp­kärrs­sjön to Mör­ud­den on Ham­marö. The distan­ce is 10 km.

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Klarälvsleden

Klarälvsleden (111 km)

Kla­rälvs­le­den, 120 km wil­der­ness. Cycling on old country roads, along the Kla­räl­ven allows you to enjoy the cul­tu­re and beau­ti­ful natu­re of nort­hern Värm­land in a won­der­ful way.
The Kla­rälvs­le­den, from Syss­le­bäck to Hag­fors, is a 120 km long cyc­le path that runs on old country roads, through the wil­der­ness, in the nort­hern Kla­rälv val­ley. The trail is natu­ral and winds its way past farms and mea­dows, through lar­ge forests and vil­la­ges, side by side with the mighty Kla­räl­ven. The sur­fa­ce is gra­vel and asphalt, the Kla­rälvs­le­den is sui­tab­le for cycling and hiking.

In Udde­holm, the Kla­rälvs­le­den ends and the paved Kla­rälvs­ba­nan takes over.

The Kla­rälvs­ba­nan winds straight through the natu­re of Värm­land, from Hag­fors in the north to Karl­stad in the south. On the way you pass Udde­holm, Munk­fors, Ran­sä­ter, Deje, Fors­ha­ga and Karl­stad in turn.
Kla­rälvs­ba­nan is a disu­sed embank­ment, com­ple­tely asphal­ted and gua­ran­teed car-free. On the Kla­rälvs­ba­nan you tra­vel from the dark and fri­end­ly forest in the north to an open agricul­tural lands­cape in the south.

At the Kla­rälvs­ba­nan’s sout­hern entran­ce, the­re is a sign­pos­ted cyc­le path that stret­ches from Kropp­kärrs­sjön to Mör­ud­den on Ham­marö. The distan­ce is 10 km.

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Klarälvsdeltat (17 km)

This is a bike ride with a lot of water con­tact. The tour takes you past the wet­lands at Marie­ber­g’s beach mea­dows, crosses seve­ral of the river arms and takes you out to one of Väner­stran­den’s untouched rock outcrops.

You also cyc­le on plea­sant dirt roads through the small-sca­le far­ming lands­cape of Ding­elsun­det. Here and the­re the­re are gre­at oppor­tu­ni­ti­es to rest next to a beach and may­be try your luck at fishing.

The Jakobs­berg Bridge, com­ple­ted in 1929, is the midd­le and oldest of the three road bridges that con­nect the Värm­land archi­pe­la­go muni­ci­pa­li­ty of Ham­marö with the muni­ci­pa­li­ty of Karl­stad and the rest of the Swe­dish road network. The bridge is alter­na­tely one-way and loca­ted near Karl­sta­d’s old air­port, Som­mar­ro golf club, Marie­bergs­sko­gen and Cen­tral Hos­pi­tal in Karl­stad. On the Ham­marö side, the bridge con­nects to the older Karl­stads­vä­gen south towards Vidöå­sen and Skog­hall, and a short distan­ce north to Läns­väg 236 (Ham­marö­le­den).

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Alster herrgård

Alster runt på cykel (25 km)

Gustaf Frö­ding­’s memo­ri­al farm in a sce­nic set­ting with a view of Lake Vänern, 8 km east of Karlstad.

Als­ter’s manor house, Gustaf Frö­ding­’s memo­ri­al house, is an 18th-cen­tu­ry manor house in a beau­ti­ful natu­ral set­ting with a view of Vänern and is best known as the birt­h­pla­ce of the poet Gustaf Frö­ding. The well-known and popu­lar poet was born here in 1860. The­re is a café and restau­rant here, and the wings have shops, a gal­le­ry and exhi­bi­tions. On the upper flo­or of the main buil­ding, the­re is an exhi­bi­tion about Gustaf Frö­ding, which can be expe­ri­enced if you join one of the pub­lic viewings that are offe­red daily. In the beau­ti­ful out­do­or envi­ron­ment around the manor and the manor park, the­re are natu­re trails and hiking trails of vary­ing lengths.

Als­ter’s manor café is pro­fi­led by Swe­dish home coo­king and home-baked cof­fee bre­ad and offers both cof­fee and lunch daily during the sum­mer season.

The wes­tern wing is a house of han­dicrafts, whe­re on the lower level the­re is a high-qua­li­ty han­dicraft shop with care­ful­ly selec­ted crafts­men. On the upper level is the asso­ci­a­tion Läns­hem­slöj­den in Värm­land, which shows exhi­bi­tions and runs courses.

In the East wing you will find a manor shop with main­ly Frö­ding lite­ra­tu­re but also sou­ve­nirs, food and han­dicrafts. In the wing the­re is also an art gal­le­ry that pre­sents vari­ous exhibitions.

During the sum­mer, vari­ous pro­grams are arrang­ed such as music, dan­ce, theat­re, lectu­res and poetry rea­dings. Most appre­ci­a­ted are the autumn and Christ­mas mar­kets with Värm­land pro­ducts in crafts and food.

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Kroppkärrsbadet

Kroppskärsjön-Välsviken (14 km)

This bike ride pas­ses parks, board­walks and local hiking are­as. The goal of the tour is beach are­as that are acces­sib­le to pedestri­ans and cyclists. Here and the­re the­re are gre­at oppor­tu­ni­ti­es to stop and rest and may­be try your luck at fishing.
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