Hello guys, looking for advice on the bike tour in southern Sweden. Im living in Berlin and would take a ferry to Trelleborg and now can’t decide if it better to take then a train to Halmstad maybe to be closer to the lakes and forest or start directly from Trelleberg.. Planning it in June this year, maybe 4-5 days ~ 300 km. Any recommendations? Or maybe general advices what I have to know about travelling in Sweden with a bike?
All the answers would be appreciated!
by Sabbathg
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If you like trails and ride a offroad capable bike take a closer look at the scaneleden hiking trail network.
It covers south sweden completly and has very nice camping spots wirh open huts and sometimes fire wood. You can start in trelleborg and make a 300k loop back.
The Swedish trail, starts In Trelleborg.
[https://swedenbybike.com/en/bicycle-routes/sverigeleden/](https://swedenbybike.com/en/bicycle-routes/sverigeleden/)
And if you have the time to do some planning yourself, you can use this one:
[https://esrisverige.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e42ce6a4916442a894a929f85e36675e](https://esrisverige.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e42ce6a4916442a894a929f85e36675e)
(If its not showing up on Trelleborg, do a search for it. Its a map for basically all the existing gravel roads in Sweden)
Along with this shelter map:
[https://vindskyddskartan.se/en/](https://vindskyddskartan.se/en/)
[https://www.youtube.com/@susannathornton](https://www.youtube.com/@susannathornton) has ridden around the south of sweden, check her out for some routes and tips.
I toured Sweden last year from Malmö to Göteborg, in July mostly along the cost but I went inland for a couple of days (from Halmstad going east to Hyltebruk).
I would say it depends what you are after, the cost was nice but felt somewhat similar to Denmark/Northern Germany, that is why I decided to go inland for a couple of days.
If you are after a bit more nature I would definitely, take a train to Hamstad from Trelleborg and go east.
The nature is amazing, with lots of lakes and amazing camping spots, I did some fishing there, and gathered loads of chanterelle mushrooms, can definitely recommend. The roads are pretty good with very few cars driving around, the supermarket situations is pretty good too.
The weather was also good I went in mid July and was mostly around the mid 20 during the day with loads of sun, but I got rained on pretty good once or twice.
If you have any questions feel free to ask, I can also sent you the locations of some amazing wildcamping spots, depending on your route.