Helgö, Naturreservat

Year of protection: 1996, extension 2008

Area: 372 ha of which 182 ha land

Character: Beech forest, Mixed forest, Beach environments

Municipality: Växjö

Owner: The state/Naturvårdsverket

Manager: County Administrative Board in Kronoberg

Helgö is accessible from Öjaby or Växjö airport.

You are welcome to visit the nature reserve, but please note that it is not allowed to:

1. damage solid natural objects or surface formations, for example by digging in the ground, drilling, painting, or chiseling on rocks and boulders
2. replace branches, fell or otherwise damage living or dead trees and shrubs
3. picking, digging up or damaging rice, herbs, mushrooms, mosses or lichens other than berries and edible mushrooms for domestic use
4. disturbing or harming wildlife, for example, by acting foolishly in a nesting or play area
5. driving or parking a motorized vehicle or trailer on land outside existing roads and parking spaces
6. camping for more than one night other than at the rest area shown on the attached map
7. make fires other than in prepared and signposted fireplaces
8. put up a sign, board, poster or similar
9. use the area for competition, practice or camp activities without the permission of the manager.

Measures for scientific research that have been approved in advance by the County Administrative Board are excluded from these regulations.

Other legislation on what you can do in the forest and land also applies in the nature reserve.