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Valle Camping is located in an area called “Vallebygden”. An area that streches along the north part of the table mountain “Billingen” \"A <\/p>\n

The hills that form the landscape are mainly made up of gravel, sand and sediment from glacial rivers. This material accumulated in a glacial pit and then remained after the glacier melted. Another famous comb landscape is Sk\u00e5ne’s Br\u00f6sarp hills. <\/p>\n

NATURE RESERVE<\/h2>\n

The Valle area, thanks to its cultural landscape and distinctive nature with rich wildlife and plant life, is home to around eight nature reserves. Whether there are six or eight reserves depends somewhat on how one defines the borders of the Valle region, but regardless, there is a remarkable number of nature reserves within a relatively small area. The nature reserves Bockaskede\u00e5sen-Toran, Eahagen-\u00d6glunda meadows, Lake Hornborga, H\u00f6jentorp-Drottningkullen, Torp, and \u00d6kull-Borreg\u00e5rden are all located within Skara Municipality, while Lycke-Lilla H\u00f6jen and the Gullakrok Lakes are located within Sk\u00f6vde Municipality. There are excellent hiking trails through the nature reserves.<\/p>\n

The hiking trails go through pastures, cultivated ditches and stone farms, groves with coniferous forests, calcareous marshes with orchids, flower meadows and lakes.<\/p>\n

ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND FISHING<\/h2>\n

There are also ancient monuments in the area, such as rock chests, stone settlements and burial cairns. You can also fish in the many lakes if you get a fishing permit. <\/p>\n

In early spring, thanks to the calcareous soil, there are plenty of bluebells to be found along the trails. These beautiful flowers are however protected but make excellent pictures! <\/p>\n

CHERRY BLOSSOM<\/h2>\n

Another speciality of the area is when tens of thousands of cherry trees are in blossom along the Billings slope in spring. The most intense flowering lasts only a week or so, so it’s important to pick the right time to experience it. <\/p>\n

Hiking in Valle: HIKING TRAILS<\/h2>\n

The area included in hiking in Valle is approximately 1,000 hectares in size and is said to have not less than 365 lakes (although this likely includes ponds as well), and thus up to 8 nature reserves.<\/p>\n

The hiking trails in Valle have easy to medium difficulty and you can walk about 3 kilometres in an hour. Some routes may require boots or ankle boots depending on the season and weather. <\/p>\n

One of the trails starts right at Valle Camping and you just have to put on your boots and get out of your cabin<\/a>, tent, caravan, motorhome<\/a> or hostel<\/a> to start experiencing nature.<\/p>\n

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\u00d6KULL-BORREG\u00c5RDEN<\/h2>\n

The nature reserve right next to the Valle campsite is called \u00d6kull-Borreg\u00e5rden and is the southernmost of the Vallebygden nature reserves. The nature reserve is about 72 hectares of which 61 are land and 11 are water. <\/p>\n

The nature reserve contains so-called leaf groves, ridges with coniferous forests, marshes, small lakes and swamp forests with birch and alder. Plants you can find here include bride’s bread, maidenhair, ground thistle, red camomile, rosehips, hawthorn and red cornflower. There is also a marsh with several species of orchids. <\/p>\n

The ridges largely follow the direction of movement of the ice. The most prominent of the ridges is “Getaryggen”, located east of \u00d6kullasj\u00f6n and extending about 5 km to the northeast. From here it is only a few kilometres to Varnhem and Varnhem Abbey Church with the ruins of the abbey and Kata Farm. <\/p>\n

Dead ice pits that have become lakes<\/h2>\n

The terrain consists of a mixture of hills, small ridges, dead-ice pits (dead-ice pits) and hollows. The ridges and hills are made up of sandy gravel formed by the area’s bedrock, which consists of sandstone, alum shale, urbergine and, to some extent, limestone gravel. Many of the dead ice pits and hollows have gradually turned into lakes or marshes. <\/p>\n

The lakes are connected to each other by a drainage system, which leads water from Gr\u00f6nsj\u00f6n via Tjursbergsj\u00f6n to Nycklasj\u00f6n and \u00d6kullasj\u00f6n, and then on into Husg\u00e4rdessj\u00f6n (where Valle Camping is located). The limestone-rich soil has resulted in all lakes having a high pH value. <\/p>\n

The large lakes in the reserve are \u00d6kullasj\u00f6n (16 ha) and Husg\u00e4rdessj\u00f6n (33 ha), both of which are less than 12 metres deep. The catchment areas of the lakes are very different in size (3 km\u00b2 and 31 km\u00b2 respectively). This implies a turnaround time of just under a year for \u00d6kulla Lake and 1-2 months for Husg\u00e4rdessj\u00f6n. <\/p>\n

Husg\u00e4rdessj\u00f6n receives water from the lake system north of the highway (Sk\u00e4rval\u00e5ngen and others), whose larger streams have their sources in the coniferous forest areas up on Billingen.<\/p>\n

Settlement since before the Neolithic Age<\/h2>\n

The oldest known evidence of human presence in the area is a passage ditch, east of the nature reserve, dated to around 3400 BC. There are also two other Stone Age settlements in the vicinity of the nature reserve that are believed to be from the same time period. It is therefore very likely that there were settlements here before the Neolithic period. <\/p>\n

In the Middle Ages, \u00d6kull was a landed estate intended for the king’s maintenance and whose land belonged to the king, a so-called fiefdom. \u00d6kull was both a royal farm and the central unit of \u00d6kull’s (Kinda) bo (bo=the medieval name for the royal administrative districts). <\/p>\n

In the 16th century, the manor was divided and gave rise to a village with the same name. In the 19th century, the village was merged into a manor, \u00d6kull Manor. The lands belonging to Borreg\u00e5rden (the monastery) probably belonged to Varnhem monastery before they became privately owned. <\/p>\n

Hiking trail through \u00d6kull-Borreg\u00e5rden<\/h2>\n

The hiking trail through \u00d6kull-Borreg\u00e5rden is about 4 km long and you can reach it directly from the campsite. The trail is comfortable and partly tracked. There are several nice rest areas with benches along the trail. <\/p>\n

It is also easy to reach with an extra walk several of the other hiking trails to hike in Valle from Valle camping, see the map below.<\/p>\n

KARTA<\/h2>\n

Hiking in Valle Kartan <\/a><\/p>\n

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On Skara municipality’s website<\/a> you will find more information about Vander i Valle.<\/p>\n

Respect the Right of Public Access<\/h2>\n

It cannot be repeated too many times, respect the right of public access! With the right of public access come responsibilities and obligations. For example, it is not allowed to break twigs, to make a fire in case of danger of forest fire or to walk on another person’s property. It is forbidden by law to walk in a field in a growing crop, to drive a motor vehicle off-road or to take birds’ nests or eggs. <\/p>\n

Other rules also apply to nature reserves. For example, you are not<\/strong> allowed to pick flowers and you can only burn on built fireplaces. Signs show the special rules that apply in different reserves. <\/p>\n

The following rules apply to \u00d6kull-Borreg\u00e5rden:<\/p>\n

It is NOT <\/strong> permitted to:<\/p>\n