Långhultamyren, Naturreservat

Långhultamyren is a vast and well-preserved bog complex. The magnificent views from Långhultten and the springtime black grouse play make Långhultamyren a popular destination. When the ground is covered in snow, you can also take your cross-country skis with you and go on a tour through the forest and open bogs. The terrain is damp so sturdy shoes or boots are recommended.

On an early April morning, you have great opportunities to experience grouse playing from the hide on the bog. The hide is a small house with two sections, one where you can spend the night on simple wooden bunks and one where you can watch the black grouse play on the bog. The house can accommodate about 20 people and the sleeping area can accommodate about four people.

Trail and ski tracks

Within the reserve there is a nature trail marked with a blue circle on wooden posts. You can choose between a shorter (3 kilometers) and a longer (4 kilometers) option. In order not to disturb the grouse during the playing season, it is not allowed to walk the long loop from March 1 to May 31. Along the nature trail you will find small information signs telling you what you can discover at the site. This could be a carnivorous plant, historical views, master trains and diapers. As parts of the trail go over marshlands, it can sometimes get really wet. We therefore recommend wearing waterproof shoes or boots.

There are also three ski trails of 2.5, 5 and 10 kilometers in Långhultamyren. Maintenance is the responsibility of Simlångsdalens idrottsförening Link to another website, opens in new window.

Collect stamp

In some of our most attractive reserves, you can also collect a nice stamp when you visit the reserve. You stamp either directly in your guidebook or on your own paper/book. In Långhultamyren, the stamp can be found at the first footbridge of the loop if you walk it clockwise.

A melancholy song

From the mire and the bare heaths, you can also hear the whistling of the heath pipit. It has a melancholy and desolate voice, almost in tune with the very landscape it lives in. When the heather moors spread across Halland, both the heath pipit and the black grouse were common. Today, they have been pushed back to the marshes. Långhultamyren is considered one of the county's most important places for these birds.

Lilies and berries

In the summer, the marsh lily blooms in abundant yellow-green quantities. Meadow wool and white mosses also grow on the mire in the wetter parts, and bell heather, heather, china grass and bluebell in the drier parts. Along the streams you will find water clover, crow's claw and missile. In the early fall, there are plenty of blueberries and lingonberries to take home. When the ground is covered in snow, you can take your cross-country skis with you and set off on an invigorating walk through the forest and open bogs. From the reserve's highest point, Långhulten, you have an impressive view of the moorland.

A mire in transition

During the 18th and 19th centuries, large parts of Långhultamyren were grazed. To improve grazing, the area was regularly burned and the ground was thus kept open. When grazing ceased in the early 1900s, the land began to grow again. Large areas of solid ground were planted with pine and spruce, but an area in the north-western part of the reserve was left to develop freely. Here is now a sparse conifer-dominated natural forest, with only a few juniper trees reminiscent of the former grazing.

There are still small areas of heather moorland preserved at Långhulten, Killeberg and Björnö. These are kept open by grazing cattle.