Along Vänerleden you will find several cafés, cozy farm shops, and dining places with White Guide status that offer a delightful dining experience. Vänerleden offers cycling on separated bike paths, low-traffic paved roads, as well as gravel roads that wind through archipelago landscapes, forest landscapes, and fertile farmland. Some of the sections are already used today as bike paths, while others are completely new as bike paths, and the trail will be 640 kilometers long.
Cultural Experiences along Vänerleden
Sandgrund Lars Lerin, Värmland’s museum, Alster Manor, Kristinehamn Art Museum, The Picasso Sculpture, Södra Råda Old Church, Särestad Rural Museum, Dalaborg, Vänersborg Museum, old town districts in Mariestad, Lidköping, Kristinehamn, and Åmål. The cultural environment Not Quite and Fengersfors Mill. Borgvik’s smelter ruins and industrial area.
Nature Experiences along Vänerleden
The plateau mountains Kinnekulle, Halle- and Hunneberg. The terminal moraine Hindens rev extends 5 km out into Vänern, and Hjortens udde. Several nature reserves such as Kummelön, Surö beech forest, biosphere area Kinnekulle and Vänern Archipelago, Segerstad archipelago. On some sections, Vänerleden follows existing bike paths. You can therefore follow signs for the Biosphere trail between Mariestad-Kinnekulle-Lidköping, and between Åmål-Säffle there is existing signage, and you can follow the Union trail signage between Borgvik-Karlstad.
Did you know that you can bring your bike on the bus this summer?
Travel sustainably this summer! With line 505 (Kristinehamn-Gullspång), you can take your bike to Vänerleden.
