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Wooden Bridge Over River – Café With Lake View loop from Toftåsa myr

Wooden Bridge Over River – Café With Lake View loop from Toftåsa myr

Moderate

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Wooden Bridge Over River – Café With Lake View loop from Toftåsa myr

03:55

79.2km

360m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 13, 2026

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6.16 km

Café With Lake View

Highlight • Cafe

Nice place for a coffee break

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21.4 km

Wind Shelter and Fire Pit at Åsnen National Park

Highlight • Mountain Hut

This is a first class wind shelter with benches in the inside of the wooden shelter, outside and even at the shore of the lake. It is pretty new as well. There is also a fire pit at the beach. You just have to be okay with some visitors in the morning, since it is a quite popular destination with a parking lot close by.

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21.7 km

Pike and Lakeshore Life – Åsnen National Park

Highlight • Lake

Interesting information board about the different life forms at the lake.

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42.0 km

Bjurkärr

Nature Reserve

42.4 km

Bjurkärr Nature Reserve, Åsnen National Park

Highlight • Forest

The first step towards a nature reserve was taken in 1951 when the general director of the Swedish Forestry Agency Bo von Stockenström visited Bjurkärr together with Mrs. Mary Stephens (daughter of Joseph Stephens in Huseby), who then announced her intention in a small speech to the management of Bjurkärrsnäset Board entrust was reserved as a reserve for all time. Through a donation in 1955, the forestry administration became the owner and after about a year the district administration determined the formation of the reserve and its purpose.

So, in 1955, Mary Stephens at the Torne farm donated the Bjurkärr peninsula to the Swedish Forestry Agency on the condition that it be protected as a natural monument. This was done by decision of the district administration council in 1960. When the Nature Conservation Act came into force in 1964, the area was automatically converted into nature reserves due to its size. Since the protection resolution from 1960 was very brief and did not contain any regulations for the public, the district administrative council decided on a new basis for decision-making, new regulations and created a management plan in 1989. This decision included regulations prohibiting access to birdlife in the southern part of the peninsula. The nature reserve was expanded in 2001, doubling the land area of primarily deciduous forest. In 2019, parts of Bjurkärr and the surrounding water areas formed Åsnen National Park.

Bjurkärr is a nature reserve in Kronoberg county in Småland on the border between the two municipalities of Växjö and Alvesta and the municipalities of Kalvik and Skatelöv on the Hössö peninsula, about 3.5 km south of Växjö. The Hössö peninsula adjoins the municipality of Urshult in the south. Bjurkärr, along with the adjacent and medieval commons of Sundet, is one of two connections to Åsnen National Park, alongside Sunnanbron (the northern Sirkö bridge between Hössöhalvlön and Sirkön), which was inaugurated by Crown Princess Victoria on May 25, 2018.

The reserve is located on its own peninsula in Lake Åsnen with deciduous forest including beech, oak, hazel and birch. The peninsula is home to the famous Karolin prawns, which are believed to have come from Polish acorns brought there by a Swedish Caroline in the early 18th century.

Source: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjurk%C3%A4rr

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