Södra Gunnarskogsleden

Södra Gunnarskogsleden is a circular trail of nearly 24 km through Gunnarskog's beautiful forest and cultural landscape. The trail takes you through varied terrain with quite some altitude shifts and introduces you to beautiful places like Svartviken at Lake Gunnern, the boulder Rövarstenen, the view point Harstacken, and idyllic tarns. The so called char coal burners' huts and the view tower of Ryggestadberget represent man made elements, which both provide nature impressions. The area offers rich flora and fauna, so the chances of exciting meetings are good.

If you prefer a shorter distance, it is possible to walk parts of the trail and take a short cut back along the car road, see map.

Södra Gunnarskogsleden is Värmland's first combined hiking and biking trail and starts at the Larstomta Hostel in Gunnarskog. The biking trail is marked in a clockwise direction (start to the north) and the hiking trail counter clockwise (to the south). The level of difficulty is rated average for both categories with the following definition:

HIKING
The difficulty of the trail is rated as average, or blue according to the Hiking Värmland standards, with the definition: "Good accessibility. All of, or parts of the trail follows natural paths. Altitude variations are not a problem to a person of normal fitness."

BIKING
The difficulty of the trail is rated as average, or red according to the Biking Värmland standards, with the definition: "The trail includes a great deal of technical stretches. There may be a lot of roots and rocks and the slopes are steeper than those of blue biking trails."