Flotarleden

Hiking

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County: Dalarnas län
252.88 km away from you

Trail details

Length 13.5 km

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Description

The hiking trail runs between the forest lake Ekfänn and the Västerdal River and is 13.5 km long. It received a major boost that was completed in 2022.

The trail comes out just upstream from Fänforsen in Västerdalälven. Along the trail at the dams there is information about logging and what life was like when it was rafted along the trail. The mines and sawmills' extensive need for timber and energy created these systems of rafting routes.

The forest was a living place, full of people working in the forest, farming or walking to sell goods or services.

This walk is a reminder of a particular era in industrial development and of the uncompromising toil of both industry and pastoral farming. The trail is built on the paths that once ran along the floatway. You can paddle a canoe in the water along the trail.

The trail takes you from Ekfännsberget with its beautiful pastoral landscape to Fänforsen in Björbo. The trail takes you over a forest road, path and footbridge in the forest and over a bog.

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Activities And Facilities

You have access to the Hjort-Olars café in Dala-Floda. There you will also find grocery shopping in the form of Ica. Next to Ica is the Flokullornas restaurant. At the inn a few hundred meters from Ica on the shore of Lake Flosjön is the restaurant Byns skafferi.

In the spring, summer and fall, there is a Thai cart a couple of plots behind the church seen from Ica.

The terrain is varied with paths, tracks and gravel roads.

Parking is available at the start of the hike or if you choose to start from Dala-Floda there is parking at the church and at Ica.

You can take the bus, drive, hike or cycle to the start. If you choose a car, you drive through the village of Mossel and along Lake Närsen. Then it is signposted to the starting point. If you take the bus, get off at Ica in Dala-Floda.

You can also walk or cycle from Ica in Dala-Floda. You then start on Kvarnaleden and the cultural gem Kvarna with its unique mill environment.

From there, you follow the fäbod trail along which you buffered (brought animals to Fäboden)

Back from Fänforsen you can advantageously choose the church path (12 km) which used to be walked from Björbo to Dala-Floda.

If you choose to cycle, there is a cycle path on the east bank of the Västerdal River between Björbo and Dala-Floda.