Stora sjöfallet tyst område

Although Stora Sjöfallet is a national park with a ban on most types of motorized vehicles, it takes a bit of searching to find places where the sound of car roads running along the national park's boundaries does not reach. We chose a place called Soldalen on the Nieras mountain, which you can reach after a varied hike through several different vegetation zones. Here you have good opportunities to unwind to the sound of rippling jokkar and mountain ripples, at least until the next helicopter with tourists to be transported out into the mountains.

You can see far into Sarek National Park and if you turn to the west, Norway is visible on the far horizon.

Stora Sjöfallet as a quiet area

Investigation of the area's sound qualities:

As part of a LONA project, we visited Soldalen in Stora Sjöfallet National Park on June 30.

It was +17 degrees, no wind and sunny.

16.00 observations start, walk from the road

18.00 humming sound from the switchgear at the hydropower plant and flashing lights

18.41 helicopter down in the valley

19.24 one more annoying helicopter

20.55 observations end down by the road