Baggå, Naturreservat

Baggå is right next to the Klockarbo nature reserve and extends along Hedströmmen. Hedströmmen is home to the endangered river pearl mussel. The area offers fine nature with rushing water and tall spruce forest on a steep slope. Here you can explore the nature on your own, as there are no landscaped paths to follow.

Outdoor life

From the parking lot at the Ormdalen nature reserve, you can walk along the Ormdal trail to the Baggå nature reserve. Once in Baggå, there are no landscaped paths, so you have to find your own way along the rippling water. Bruksleden runs along the river just outside the reserve and in the southwestern part it makes a small turn in. There is a picnic area at Hedströmmen where you can sit down and have a coffee while listening to the rushing water. In the area you can see traces of the beaver's progress in the form of gnawed and felled trees. There are also traces of house foundations that belonged to an old croft.

Nature

There is plenty of life in both the water and the adjacent land. Hedströmmen is one of the county's four watercourses where the endangered and protected species pearl mussel lives. The river pearl mussel requires clean and flowing water to survive. It depends on the fish trout to reproduce, as the larvae of the river pearl mussel live as parasites on the gills of the trout before they develop into mussels.

The forest consists mainly of spruce with elements of birch, gray alder and older pines. There are dead trees in the area, to the delight of various insects and birds that find both food and nesting sites in the dead trees.