Sweden's national parks

Unbroken wilderness

This national park protects a wilderness landscape shaped by deep cleft valleys, large tracts of natural forest, lakes and open mires.

Established

1996

County

Västra Götaland

About Tresticklan National Park

With an area of 30 square kilometres, the national park forms the largest roadless and uninhabited forest tract in southern Sweden. Here you can experience untouched forests, beautiful lakes and distinctive terrain.

The Tresticklan area is, for Götaland, an unusually large forest area without settlements or roads. From the air, the area resembles a washboard. The landscape is characterised by narrow and high ridges stretching in a north–south direction. Between them lie mires and long, narrow lakes.

The sparse and barren pine forest with rock surfaces covered in lichens and mosses, together with the large number of lakes, creates a peaceful environment where you can hike for several days.

The gneiss in Stora Le – the Marstrand Formation – is one of the oldest rock types in western Sweden and was probably formed more than 1,650 million years ago.