
Skåneleden
Sign in to saveThe Skåneleden trail is a long-distance walking trail that stretches all over the countryside of Skåne, in southern Sweden. The trail spans over and is divided into seven sub-trails, with a total of 147 sections. The trail can easily be recognized by the orange trail marks along the footpath. The trail runs from the west to east and from north to south and passes through a highly diversified landscape such as rocky coastlines, undulating ridges, deep forests and white sandy beaches. Parts of the trail are accessible by wheelchair.
Key facts
- Hiking trail.name
- Skåneleden
- Hiking trail.photo
- Vindskydd at Grundsjön Bromölla Municipality.jpg
- Hiking trail.caption
- Shelter along the trail, lake Grundsjön
- Hiking trail.established
- 1978
- Hiking trail.length_km
- 1700
- Hiking trail.location
- Skåne, Sweden
- Hiking trail.use
- Hiking
- Hiking trail.difficulty
- Varied
- Hiking trail.maintainer
- Municipalities of Skåne County
- Hiking trail.sights
- Dalby Söderskog, Hovdala Castle, Kullaberg, Sofiero Palace, Söderåsen, Stenshuvud, Vattenriket
- Hiking trail.waymark
- Orange square
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Sub-trails
- SL1 Kust till kust (Coast to coast)
- SL2 Nord till syd (North to south)
- SL3 Ås till ås (Ridge to ridge)
- SL4 Österlen
- SL5 Öresund
- SL6 Vattenriket (Water Kingdom)
- SL7 Sydkust (South coast)
- Gallery
- External links
- References
The Skåneleden trail is a long-distance walking trail that stretches all over the countryside of Skåne, in southern Sweden. The trail spans over and is divided into seven sub-trails, with a total of 147 sections. The trail can easily be recognized by the orange trail marks along the footpath. The trail runs from the west to east and from north to south and passes through a highly diversified landscape such as rocky coastlines, undulating ridges, deep forests and white sandy beaches. Parts of the trail are accessible by wheelchair.
The trail features around 90 permanent shelters at designated campsites. The trail is also part of the long North Sea Trail, which passes through Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It connects to the neighbouring trails of to the east, sharing some sections with it and to the north, meeting at Koarp in Hallandsåsen. left|thumb|281x281px|Modern Skåneleden signposts As of 2023, visitor counters along the trail recorded between 5 and 300 hikers per day on most sections, and up to 5,000 daily visitors in popular locations such as Stenshuvud and Ales Stenar. The official Skåneleden website received over 500,000 people in 2024, and 1,830 maps of the Skåneleden trail were sold in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skåneleden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.