The Nationalpark

Fulufjället is the most southerly mountain national park in Sweden.

Because no reindeers graze here the mountain moor is covered with lichens. Fulufjället rises like a plateu in the landscape, steep sides and flat on top. In the winter it looks like a giant, frosted cake! Other mountains in Sweden are made of primary rock like granite. Fulufjället is made of sandstone. The sand was deposited and packed in a shallow sea by the equator 900 million years ago. Maybe you will find stones with marks like waves on your hike – a memory from when Fulufjället was the bottom of a sea. Not much grows in sand. Plants who don’t need much nutrition thrive on mount Fulufjället, like mosses and lichens.

Zones
I Wilderness             Allowed to put up a tent, make a fire and hike
                                    Not allowed to fish, hunt or drive terrain vehicles

II Low activity              Allowed to put up a tent, make a fire and hike, fish, hunt and drive
                                     snow mobiles on therefore marked trails.

III High activity             Allowed to put up a tent, make a fire and hike, fish, hunt and drive
                                      snow mobiles on therefore marked trails.

IV Establishment         Allowed to hike and make a fire on announced places
                                        Not allowed to put up a tent, sleep in cabins, fish, hunt or drive 
                                        terrain vehicles

Facts
Founded in 2002
Opened: 17 September 2002
Size: 385km2
Highest peak: Brattfjället 1042m
To see: Njupeskär, Gäljån, the world’s oldest tree, Siberian Jay, Gyr Falcon
Unique: sandstone, thick carpets of lichens, not grazed by reindeers, a plateau
Seasons: Snow from October-April, melting/spring flood in May, no snow June-September