Pines and cranberries in a sea of white moss
This national park protects southern Sweden’s largest mire landscape in its natural state, with wetlands, pine forests, coniferous swamp forests and lakes where nature is left undisturbed.
1982
Jönköping
Pines and cranberries in a sea of white moss
This national park protects southern Sweden’s largest mire landscape in its natural state, with wetlands, pine forests, coniferous swamp forests and lakes where nature is left undisturbed.
1982
Jönköping
About Store Mosse National Park
Most of Store Mosse National Park consists of raised bog, but the area also contains forest, mainly pine bog forest and swamp forest, as well as fens. In some parts of the area there is also coarse spruce forest.
Stormyren is the most original type of nature found in southern Sweden. The peat layer in the raised bog has been growing for at least 8,000 years and consists mainly of plant material from sphagnum moss. Forest‑covered sand dunes, known as rocknar, form a system of islands and ridges in the open mire.
There are also areas of cultural landscape embedded in the mire complex, such as Svänö in the northern part of the park and Lövö in the southern part.
Peat pits bear witness to the peat extraction that took place during the first half of the 1900s. Some large areas have since been restored to raised bog.
Store Mosse National Park is the largest mostly untouched raised bog area in Sweden south of Lapland.