What to do in Dalsland - what to see and experience? Let's start with beautiful and colourful, with waterways, crazy nature and disgustingly picturesque. Here you also have Sweden's only aqueduct in Håverud where railway, road and boat canal meet together.

The canal museum should only be experienced in the centre of Håverud, as well as the glassworks and the gnome museum. Furthermore, Dals Långed is crazy beautiful and imagine being able to study in the craft school Stenebyskolan ... wow! Don't forget Gammelgården Open Air Museum, located on Majberget in Bengtsfors.

Things to see and do in Dalsland

Dalsland is a small province in Götaland in western Sweden. It is located west of Lake Vänern and borders to the north with Värmland, in the north-west to Norway, in the west to Bohuslän and in the south to Västergötland.

Göra i Dalsland

Köpmannebro and Upperud - the start of the Dalsland Canal

Dalsland is surprising, and it's almost naughtily idyllic. The lock at Köpmannebro is the first in the Dalsland Canal. The canal leads from Lake Vänern to Lake Svanefjorden and all the way to Östervallsskog in Värmland. Arvid Posse and his wife, Princess Christine Egypta Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, lived here in Upperud in the manor house. Let's go! 

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The aqueduct in Håverud

The boats go on a bridge while the train goes above on its bridge and at the top is the car bridge!!! You should just enjoy Håverud and preferably start your canal boat trip or rent a canoe and just enjoy being in life. Have an ice cream and hear the lock gates close or open, and follow along on the metal bridge with its 33,000 rivets that have never been replaced since 1868. Let's go!

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Dals langed

This is soooo cosy to drive along the beautiful canal and Dals Långed. Here is Mustadfors lock station, also called Katrineholmshöljen which is the ninth lock in the Dalsland canal. Långbron lock has a lock chamber and leads from the lake Långbrohöljen to Laxsjön. Långed's locks consist of a lock system of four lock chambers, with a level difference of 13.1 metres, and there is also a small, pleasant ice cream café. Come along!

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Bengtsfors in Dalsland

This was our first time in Dalsland and it was beautiful! Here you can see how people in Dalsland lived and worked in the past at Gammelgården, which is western Sweden's largest open-air museum. Gammelgården on Majberget is also home to Halmens hus, the only straw museum in the Nordic region. Höljerudsforsarna and the Höljerudsforsarna nature reserve are close to the 18th lock, which is located just north of Billingsfors and is very popular.

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Dalsland's coat of arms in the 17th century - Suecia verket

Things to see and do in Dalsland - facts

  • Part of the country: Götaland
  • County: Västra Götaland County and Värmland County
  • Pin: Karlstad Diocese
  • Titular: Counties
  • City of residence: Linköping
  • Biggest lake: Lake Vänern, Large and Small Le
  • Largest island: Torsö in Lake Vänern
  • Highest point: Baljåsen - 302 metres above sea level.
  • Surface: 3 715 km 2
  • Population: 50 401 (2019)
  • Duchess: Princess Estelle
  • Landscape singing: Did you see a country
  • Landscape flower: forget-me-not
  • Landscape animals: Carcass
  • Landscape fish: Horned Swallow
  • Landscape insect: Aspen butterfly
  • Landscape moss: Large reef moss
  • Landscape stone: Quartzite
  • Landscape constellation: Maiden
  • Landscape star: Spica
  • Landscape mushrooms: Butter soup
  • Landscape apples: Orange
  • Element: silicon
  • Landscape weapons: Silver background with a red bull walking with horns, hooves and the charm in gold. The original is from Gustav Vasa's funeral in 1560 which looks almost the same but with a hanging tail.
  • 5 good nature reserves: Sörknatten, Kroppfjäll, Baljåsen, Bräcke meadows and Höljerudsforsarna nature reserve.
  • Cultural reserve: Åsnebyn in Mellerud Municipality in the Dalsland landscape with farm environment and agricultural landscape. A typical Dalsland farm, with a landscape characterised by the 19th and early 20th century. In Åsnebyn you can experience what old-fashioned Dalsland agriculture looked like. The farm is first mentioned in a document from 1380.
  • Largest centres: Åmål, Mellerud, Bengtsfors, Ed and Färjelanda
  • Largest watercourse: Dalsland canal
  • Landscape law: Pike steaks with herb cream sauce, carrot soup with salmon skewers or apple cake from Åmål. More about Swedish food here.
  • Main sights: The aqueduct in Håverud, Dalsland Activities (experience centre in the forest and countryside), Not Quite in Fengersfors with art and culture, Baldernäs Manor, Dalsland Morse Ranch, Cruise on the Dalsland Canal and pilgrimage trail, etc.
  • Famous people: Mathias and Thobias Fredriksson in cross-country skiing,
  • Unnecessary knowledge: There are eleven folk costumes from Dalsland, seven women's costumes and four men's costumes, Åmål is known from Lukas Moodysson's film. Fucking Åmål (1998),

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