Sydudden runt

Protected since: 2025

Area: 25,300 ha of which 97 percent is sea

Character: Sea, shallow and deep soft-bottom habitats, shallow and deep hard-bottom habitats, islands and skerries, fissure valley terrain, sparse rocky pine forest, maritime deciduous forest

Municipality: Värmdö

Landowner: The state

Managing authority: Stockholm County Administrative Board

Protection status: national park

Other: Natura 2000 site Bullerö–Bytta (SE0110088)

Purpose of the national park: To preserve a representative and diverse marine and archipelago landscape in the Baltic Sea in a largely unaltered condition.

The trail starts at the entrance area at Rävängen. From there, follow the white trail markings.

Getting to Bullerö: During the high season, Bullerö is easily reached by SL bus from Slussen to Stavsnäs Winter Harbour (Stavsnäs vinterhamn). From there, connecting boat services are available with Bullerölinjen or Stavsnäs Boat Taxi.

At other times of the year, Bullerö can be reached by private boat or boat taxi.

Plan your journey using SL’s travel planner and the Bullerölinjen / Stavsnäs Boat Taxi services.

More visitor information is available at
sverigesnationalparker.se/namdoskargarden

To protect the natural environment of the national park, special rules apply regarding what you may and may not do.

In addition to the national park regulations, fishing regulations and maritime traffic rules also apply.

NATIONAL PARK REGULATIONS IN BRIEF

• You may only make a fire in designated places or in a grill on legs. Camping stoves are also permitted.

• You are not permitted in areas marked as off-limits (bird protection areas) during specified periods.

• You must always keep your dog on lead. This applies to other pets as well.

• Dogs and other pets are forbidden between 1 April and 31 July on Tärnskär.

• You may camp up to two days in the same place in almost the whole national park. On Bullerö, there is a campsite where you can camp in a tent for up to seven days. In some areas of the national park, you may not camp, hang a ham­mock orsimilar.

• You may drop anchor or dock a vessel up to two consecutive days in the same place.

• You may not drive a motorized vessel faster than 5 knots within 100 m of land.

• In some particularly sensitive areas, you may not drop anchor, drive a motorized vessel or operate any kind of vessel (boat, kayak, SUP board etc.).

• In some areas, fishing is forbidden year-round.

• You may not start or land airborne vehicles, drones or similar.

• You maynot break off twigs or otherwise harm living or dead trees or shrubs.

• You may not dig up plants, pick or collect mosses or lichens or remove algae, musselso or wood-living fungi growing on any surface.

• You may not damage rock, stone or soil by carving, drilling, painting, etc. Nor may you remove rocks from the area or stack them.

• You may not disturb other visitors or animals, for example by playing excessively loud music or leaving a boat idling for a long time.

The full regulations for Nämdöskärgården National Park are available on the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s website.

Fishing regulations

Comlete fishing regulations aare availableon the website Svenska fiskeregler (Swedish Fishing Regulations).

Maritime traffic regulations

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