Visit the park
Here you’ll find directions, information about local services, and other useful details to help you prepare for your visit to Hamra National Park.
Visit the park
Here you’ll find directions, information about local services, and other useful details to help you prepare for your visit to Hamra National Park.
The national park has three entrances: the main entrance, Myrentrén and Svartåentrén. The easiest way to reach Hamra is by car.
Seasons in Hamra National Park
In winter the snow lies a metre deep and the landscape becomes softly sparkling. Few visitors come in winter. It is a beautiful time to experience the mire landscape, when you can easily cross the wetlands on skis or snowshoes. The road to the main entrance is ploughed all winter. Myrentrén and Svartåentrén are not maintained in winter, so wait to visit them until spring, summer or autumn.
The arrival of spring is celebrated by the birds and the sun long before the snow has melted away in May. Spring is a wonderful time for skiers, hikers and birdwatchers, when the woodpeckers drum and the forest is full of buzzing, chirping, newly awakened life and the migratory birds fill the mires and the black grouse display.
Summer is when the most visitors come to the national park. In June the ängsnycklar bloom in the small fen meadows along Svartån. Insect life is also at its peak, and in August the cloudberries on the mires ripen.
When autumn arrives, the birch trees light up the whole landscape in bright yellow explosions. The mosquito buzz has stopped and the air becomes crisp and fresh to breathe. The dark evenings are perfect for sitting around a fire and watching the starry sky and northern lights.
Accessibility
The entrance areas are adapted for accessibility for visitors using, for example, a wheelchair.
From the car park at the main entrance, a wide wooden boardwalk leads all the way to the entrance and then on for about 500 metres to the viewpoint at Svansjön.
Accessibility is best at the main entrance. There you will find a dry toilet, waste bins, picnic tables, a shelter, a fire pit and trails adapted for many visitors.
At the other entrances, there are accessible rest areas and dry toilets. There is no wide wooden boardwalk into the park here.