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ABOUT ADVENTURE SWEDEN - JÄMTLAND HÄRJEDALEN

Culture and Nature hand-in-hand

The nature and mountains of the region are co-creators of this region´s culture. Tourism dates back as far as to the stone age with the first visitors being hunters visiting the region from the west. These visitors were followed by pilgrims travelling to the grave of S:t Olov in the Nidaros Dome of Trondheim, Norway. Later trade farmers made their way through the landscape on frozen lakes to markets, flower gents completing their herbaria, hunting lords building chalets in the mountains for fishing and hunting, air guests breathing fresh air and drinking from wells to cure their suburbian stress symptoms on to today´s recreational guests coming for the joy of joining the local culture pursuing outdoor life as well as the tasty artisan foods.

A part of Saepmie

Jämtland Härjedalen is a part of Saepmie. There are 11 Sami villages (economic organisational form) in the region herding around 45 000 reindeer roaming in the mountains. There are a few sami companies directly involved in the tourism industry.

In Winter

Skiing is the primary reason for visiting the region in winter, both alpine and cross country skiing in combination with winter activities like visiting sites and events, winter sports, ice fishing, skating and gastronomy.

In Summer

Hiking in the mountains are high on everyone´s wish list along with visiting sites and attending events. As well as fishing, biking, paddling, foraging, riding and gastronomy. Quite a few of our summer guests are doing a roundtrip, for example along the Wilderness route Strömsund-Gäddede-Vilhelmina-Strömsund or around lake Storsjön.

Gastronomy

The region hosts more than 150 artisan food producers specialized in meat-products, jam, cheese, chocolate, and bread. There are around 30 Cafés and Restaurants in the White Guide representing Sweden´s best choices. Östersund is appointed “City of Gastronomy” since 2010 by UNESCO, thanks to the number of artisan food producers and the quality of cafés and restaurants in the region.

Events

The region is often home to great events like the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre (1954, 2007 and 2019), The Biathlon World Championships in Östersund (2008 and 2019). Storsjöyran is the largest city music festival of Sweden and there are several extreme sport events, trail running competitions, game fairs as well as cultural events.

Largest Attractions

Storsjöbadet adventure pools in- and outdoors and Jamtli, a living history museum representing the whole region in Östersund are the two attracting the most visitors. The rest of the top attractions are: Holiday Club adventure pools indoors in Åre. Multichallenge activity center in Östersund, Döda fallet (the dead falls) of Ragunda and the Geo-park Indalsälven, Wikners carpentry center in Persåsen, Tännforsen waterfall in Åre, Frösö church, Moose Garden in Östersund, Surfbukten (Surfers´bay) in Östersund and the many homestead museums of local communities showing every day life of the old days.