Photo: Länsstyrelsen Stockholm
Photo: Länsstyrelsen Stockholm
Photo: Länsstyrelsen Stockholm
Photo: Johan Färlin

Rågskärsslingan, circular trail

Hiking

County: Stockholms län
6783.95 km away from you

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Trail details

Length 1.1 km

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Description

Rågskärsslingan is a circular trail that takes you around the Island, through a varied and scenic landscape.

If you look closely, you’ll notice how the surroundings have been shaped by traditional haymaking, grazing, and forestry over centuries.

Near the old croft, an information sign tells the story of the island’s natural environment and the people who once lived and worked here. This is an excellent starting point for your walk.

In the southwest, a short detour leads out to the headland, where you’ll find a pleasant rest area with beautiful views. In the water below, you can spot bridge foundations—the remains of Pott’s Bridges, built in the early 1900s.

Sheep and cattle graze freely on the island outside the croft’s fence. You are welcome to pet the animals if they choose to approach you.

Dress according to the weather, wear sturdy footwear, and remember to bring food and water.

Activities And Facilities

Established: 2025

Area: 25,300 ha of which 97 percent is sea

Character: Sea, shallow and deep soft-bottom habitats, shallow and deep hard-bottom habitats, islands and skerries, fissure valley terrain, sparse rocky pine forest, maritime deciduous forest

Municipality: Värmdö

Landowner: The state

Managing authority: Stockholm County Administrative Board

Protection status: national park

Other protection status: Natura 2000 site Bullerö–Bytta (SE0110088)

Purpose of the national park: To preserve a representative and diverse marine and archipelago landscape in the Baltic Sea in a largely unaltered condition.

You can get here by private boat, boat taxi or with the Nämdölinjen ferry.

Plan your
trip using SL’s journey planner and Nämdölinjen/Stavsnäs boat taxi services.

To protect the natural environment of the national park, special rules apply regarding what you may and may not do.

In addition to the national park regulations, fishing regulations and maritime traffic rules also apply.

NATIONAL PARK REGULATIONS IN BRIEF

• You may only make a fire in designated places or in a grill on legs. Camping stoves are also permitted.

• You are not permitted in areas marked as off-limits (bird protection areas) during specified periods.

• You must always keep your dog on lead. This applies to other pets as well.

• Dogs and other pets are forbidden between 1 April and 31 July on Tärnskär.

• You may camp up to two days in the same place in almost the whole national park. On Bullerö, there is a campsite where you can camp in a tent for up to seven days. In some areas of the national park, you may not camp, hang a hammock orsimilar.

• You may drop anchor or dock a vessel up to two consecutive days in the same place.

• You may not drive a motorized vessel faster than 5 knots within 100 m of land.

• In some particularly sensitive areas, you may not drop anchor, drive a motorized vessel or operate any kind of vessel (boat, kayak, SUP board etc.).

• In some areas, fishing is forbidden year-round.

• You may not start or land airborne vehicles, drones or similar.

• You may not break off twigs or otherwise harm living or dead trees or shrubs.

• You may not dig up plants, pick or collect mosses or lichens or remove algae, musselso or wood-living fungi growing on any surface.

• You may not damage rock, stone or soil by carving, drilling, painting, etc. Nor may you remove rocks from the area or stack them.

• You may not disturb other visitors or animals, for example by playing excessively loud music or leaving a boat idling for a long time.

The full regulations for Nämdöskärgården National Park are available on the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s website.

Fishing regulations

Complete fishing regulations are available on the website Svenska fiskeregler (Swedish Fishing Regulations).

Maritime traffic regulations

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