Central part of Sweden

Fulufallen: a hidden gem that very few people know about. On a stretch of 400 metres, no less than 8 rapids and waterfalls await you with a total fall height of 80 m. A friend tipped us about this hike, and I am so happy that she did! Thank you Carina! :-)

We have an app on our phone that records our walks, which is quite fun (the App is called Komoot). The map on the left side is our recorded walk.

If you want to do the exact same hike as we did, you can find the link here: https://www.komoot.com/tour/225488016

Starting point: Drive past Mörkret west of Särna (approx. 30 km). Stop at the car park in Tjärnvallen, right hand side of the road. You will see a sign "Forserna 1,7 km"

GPS starting point: N61.63467, E12.630598 (click to open coordinates on google maps)

Type: loop trails

Length: 3,7 km.

Total height difference: 50 m

Trail signs: Arrow signs on trees, very well marked

Difficulties: The first part of the hike is really easy. No height differences during the trail making this to a very easy hike. Only the stretch beside the river has some rocky parts, but not that difficult either.

You enter the same road from national highway 70 as many people do when you go to Fulufjället National Park, its entrance at Njupeskär. But when you get to the village of Mörkret, you continue straight ahead towards Gördalen.

After Mörkret you come to the village of Tjärnvallen, and it is time to slow down, directly after the village on the right side, a small parking lot with signs about Fulufallen appears. There begins the path towards Fulufallen.

The path is well spanned over bogs and streams. After about 1.5 kilometers you can start to hear the falls and rapids. After 2 kilometres, you come down towards Korsnäs wind shelter at Fulubågan.

The path is really well marked with red arrows on the trees, especially during the first half of the hike.
Although..... some, as you can see in the photo above, might be a little bit misleading in which direction to go 😉

Fulufallen, where the landscape is characterized by the powerful flows of water and the movements of the ice through the landscape during the ice age.

The ice age has transported large blocks here, and deposited them in a moraine that once filled this entire depression. Then when the waterfall was in full force the water washed away the smaller material, and what was left was this huge block.

Åke on the hiking trail

During the walk along the path, beautiful marshes and small ponds are passed.

Don't miss that the Fulufallen itself, i.e. the most dramatic falls in the Fulubågan, are just behind the wind shelter.

The path then follows the rapids upstream and offers a variety of beautiful views with rapids and forest. There is a certain human impact on the Fulubågan in several places, as it was historically a waterway (flottled).

After a while, the path turns away from the river to head back towards the parking lot.

Fulufallen or Forsarna, as the fall is called locally, is a stretch of 400 meters where there are 8 beautiful rapids and waterfalls. The Fulu falls have a total fall height of 80 meters. Fulufallen is located in Fulubågan, which is one of the tributaries of Fuluälven. Parking is available at Tjärnvallen and up to the falls there is a 1.7 km long hiking trail. At the beginning of the 20th century, the waterway, like so many others, was used for floating timber.