Surroundings

Nature lovers will fully enjoy

The environment of Sjö och träd is attractive to anyone who enjoys being outdoors. The cottage is located in a quiet location, surrounded by nature. With just a few steps you are next to a stream, between the trees. Here you are directly on a marked hiking trail where you can walk a route of 3.5, 7.5 or 15 kilometers. There is a good chance that you will not meet anyone during the walk. The sounds you hear are the twitter of birds, the babbling brook and the sound of wind in the trees.

From the terrace of the cottage you can look through the trees at Lake Acksjön. The length of this lake is about 2 kilometers and it is 750 meters wide. Not a huge lake for Swedish standards, but a wonderful place to relax. With a book on the waterfront or enjoying yourself from the water.

Filipstad

Filipstad is a small town with some shops and museums. For those who are looking for a more extensive range for shopping than Molkom has to offer, there are several supermarkets in Filipstad: ICA Kvantum, Lidl, Pekås and Coop Extra. A post office is located at Victoriagatan in Filipstad. The Dollarstore offers almost everything: drugstore items, towels and bedding, pet supplies, clothing, cleaning supplies, tools, toys, stationery and candy. In Filipstad you will also find a pet store, clothing store, flower shop, hairdresser, beauty salon and optician. There are also several pizzerias.

Museums

The world's most famous crispbread comes from Filipstad! The Wasa factory is located in the city. Wasa has since been taken over by Barilla, but crispbread is still made here. At the Wasa factory you will find a museum and a shop. After visiting this museum you will know all the facts behind every Wasa crumb.

Filipstad is also well-known because of Nils Ferlin. This poet, who was also an actor, moved from Karlstad to Filipstad at the age of ten. Hence, this is where the Ferlin Museum is located. In the museum you follow the life of the poet, from growing up in Filipstad with revues and acting, during the bohemian years in Stockholm and Klara where he developed into one of our most popular poets, until his last years in Roslagen.

Nature

Filipstad is located on the elongated lake Daglösen. Take a stroll along the water and discover what Filipstad has to offer. On the west side of Filipstad you can practice various sports at Kalhyttan in both summer and winter.

Persberg is located just outside the city, at a 7-kilometre drive. Here is the Högbergsfältet nature reserve, which is well worth a visit! The nature reserve is located on the gigantic Yngen Lake. In Högbergsfältet, visitors are guided to special places with signposts. For example, look up Tilas Stoll. This is a horizontal mine, where you enter through a tunnel and see with your own eyes what a mine looks like inside. There are many beautiful hiking trails through the forest and along the lake.

Karlstad

Karlstad is a big city with everything you could wish for. For a day of shopping you can indulge yourself here. In the center of Karlstad, well-known chains as well as typical Scandinavian shops fill the streets. There are plenty of nice restaurants in the city to enjoy a nice meal during the day or in the evening.

Karlstad also has several shopping malls, where you will find many large shops together with plenty of parking space. Bergvik Köpcenter is an example of this. It’s located on the west side of the city. Here you will find clothing stores, electronics stores, supermarkets and IKEA. Another shopping mall is Välsviken, which is located on the east side of Karlstad.

Museums

There is plenty of choice in Karlstad for museum lovers! For example:

• In the Värmlands Museum you can admire changing art collections.
• The Brigad Museum is an experience museum where you can feel, listen, read and see how the Cold War influenced Sweden on a time travel from 1945-1991. The Brigad Museum is part of Sweden's state Military Historic Heritage (SMHA) network. Within the network, there are about 25 military history museums that can be visited.
• Curious about what prisons used to look like? Then visit the Fängelsemuseum in Karlstad. Prison operations stopped in 1968, but in the basement of the property there is an interesting museum, where you can see isolation cells from different time periods. The prison has now been converted into a hotel.
• Karlstads rådhus is the town hall dating from 1869 located on Stora Torget. The monumental building is now used by the provincial courts.

Nature

Karlstad is located on the north side of the huge Lake Vänern. There are many parks in the city itself, such as Stadsträdparken, Kvarnbergsparken, Wennbergsparken, and the larger parks Orrholmsparken and Mariebergsskogen. The municipality values great importance to good hiking trails in nature. There are many beautiful routes to walk. You can also explore the nature around Karlstad by bike. Karlstad is the starting point of a 90-kilometre paved cycle path through nature to Uddeholm, along the river Klarälven.