Longer hikes

The hike starts at the bus stop at Harvestad Gård. Turn right onto the gravel road. Follow it for one kilometer and you will reach the car park for the Ullaberg and Mossen bird lake area. Continue another 700 meters and you will arrive at the rest area and entrance for the area. In front of you is the bird lake. Follow the orange-marked trail to the left into the pasture. Follow it for a few kilometers. At one point, the trails divide and there are orange arrows both straight ahead and to the left. Choose the straight-ahead path. Cross the long boardwalk that goes over the water. When you reach the gravel road, turn left onto it. Follow it a few hundred meters until you reach a barbecue area. Turn right and continue following the orange markings. Now you have water on your left side. Walk a few hundred meters until you reach an information sign that says “röda slingan.” Now follow the red marking through Ullstämma Forest Reserve. That trail is a few kilometers long. Finally, you will come to a new information sign. Here, many paths meet, so it’s easy to make a mistake. But keep left here, and now start following the orange markings. After about 1 km you will reach the rest area and entrance at Ekängsdalen. Continue following the orange marking. It should now be followed for the rest of the hike. After a few kilometers, you’ll reach Vidingsjö exercise center. Pass it and continue toward Tinnerö. You enter the Tinnerö nature reserve, and the trail winds a little south and then turns north. At “Karlaplan/Djurgården” in the northern part of the reserve, you pass a large car park and bus stop. Continue the trail westward. You pass a tunnel and now enter Vallaskogen nature reserve. Continue following the orange markings, and finally, you’ll arrive at the city quarters in the open-air museum Gamla Linköping.

Feel free to use naturkartan.se to see where facilities such as barbecue and rest areas are located. Also, activate it so you can see your position on the map, making it easy to navigate.

Take the bus to the stop Harvestad position A or position B in southern Linköping. The hike starts here. The hike ends in Gamla Linköping and from here buses depart from the stop Gamla Linköping position A or position B.

This description starts from Vidingsjö Motionscentrum and heads towards Ullaberg to finish with Tinnerö and then back to Vidingsjö Motionscentrum. Start at Vidingsjö Motionscentrum and follow the green markings (LOK-milen). Follow it all the way to the vicinity of Ullaberg where you turn off LOK-milen at a gravel road and instead follow the gravel road up to the entrance to the Ullaberg wetland area. At the barbecue area, start following the orange markings that lead you on a path near the water at Ullaberg. Follow that path for about 1 kilometer until you come to a junction where Östgötaleden splits. Follow the marking that turns left. You will come out to a gravel road between Svennersborg and Kärr. After about 200 meters, turn left and follow the orange markings up into the forest and follow the edge of the Mossen wetland area. After a kilometer, you will reach an information sign about the Ullstämmaskogen Nature Reserve loop which is marked in red. Now follow that trail through the reserve. After about 2 kilometers, the reserve ends, and you come to a new information board. Here, you start following the green markings (LOK-milen) again and follow it all the way back to Vidingsjö Motionscentrum. On the way, you pass over Ekängssjön and a bit through the Vidingsjöskogens Nature Reserve. Once back at Vidingsjö Motionscentrum, follow signs towards Tinnerö. Pass the site Fröberget with the spectacular insect hotel. Follow the gravel road until you come to an information board named “Södra rundan.” Turn left through a passage and over a creek. Now follow the red-marked Tinnerö Trail. Follow it past “Stora Tallen” and round Rosenkällasjön. At the parking and information site “Dämmet,” turn left and continue following the red-marked Tinnerö Trail. Pass the parking/information board at Tinnerö Gravfält/Tinnerö northern. After a while, you will return to the information board named “Södra rundan.” Here, stop following the red markings and go on the gravel road towards Fröberget. After Fröberget, continue back to Vidingsjö Motionscentrum. The tour ends.

Feel free to use naturkartan.se to see where amenities such as barbecue areas and rest places are located. Also, enable it so you can see your position on the map, making it easy to navigate.

There are several suitable starting points on this tour as it is a loop. Start at Vidingsjö exercise center, which you can reach by both car and bus. Otherwise, Ullaberg, Ekängsdalen, and various parking lots in Tinnerö also work for those coming by car.

Difficulty: Enkel

Time required: ca 12 h

Marking: Orange, samt symbolen (RR)

Subsections:
Bjärka-Säby – Sätravallen: 11 km
Sätravallen – Vårdnäs Stifsgård: 7,2 km
Vårdnäs Stifsgård – Stafsäter Gårdsglass: 9,5 km
Stafsäter Gårdsglass – Hovetorps slussar: 8,5 km
Hovetorps slussar – Bjärka-Säby: 5,5 km

Public Transport
It’s easy to reach the eastern side of the hiking trail by public transport. If you start from Linköping’s travel center, take line 566 towards Brokind. The line has several bus stops in connection with Lake Rängen – but if you want to reach the hiking loop directly, we recommend that you get off at the bus stop Hovetorp, Bjärka-Säby, or Enebacken.

To travel by public transport in Linköping, you need to download the Östgötatrafiken app where you also purchase your bus ticket. Prices are zone-based where a single adult ticket costs 50 SEK. If you get off at Hovetorp, the bus journey takes about 30 minutes.

Hiking
Rängen runt is also part of Östgötaleden, which means you can reach the route by hiking through forest and plain.

Car
There are also some parking spaces where you can park around the whole Lake Stora Rängen during your hike. Parking is available at Hamra, KFUMS Campground, Bjärka-Säby, Västerskog Nature Reserve, Storsjön, Vårdnäs Pilgrimage Center, and the Engelskan Nature Reserve.