Stage start
Vassbotten
Trailhead
Bullarebygdens familjecamping, with cabins, is about 0.5 km south of the trail. The nearest bus stop, Holkekärr, is about 6 km south.
Bullarebygdens Familjecamping · Camping spot
Season 2026: 2026 dates not published
Vassbotten to Håvedalen
Bohusleden · Stage 24
Walking time as bohusleden.westswedentrails.se states it for this stage; measured on the mapped line: 5 h 29. Climb measured on the mapped line, on terrain heights. Bohusleden.westswedentrails.se
20.0 kmStage distance
385 mAscent, measured
7–8 hOfficial time
24Stage number
To Håvedalen: 19 km, 7 to 8 hours, graded hard. The Allemarken shelter, with a barbecue place, is about 1 km before the end.
Best season: All year. West Sweden Trails publishes no season: each time of year has its own character, it says, so plan for the weather and the hours of daylight. Some services are seasonal: the kiosk and toilet at Kåsjön open in summer only, and Friluftsfrämjandet lets the Modalen hut less in summer, when walkers use the shelter most. Before you go
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Flat (<5%) Gentle (5–10%)
Green: Vassbotten to Håvedalen. Grey: full trail. Elevation follows this mapped track.
Vassbotten to Håvedalen
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Where this stage starts and ends
Facts read from the guide's sources and OpenStreetMap on 13 October 2026. A page can change after we read it, so confirm with your accommodation before you rely on a date or a bed.
Stage end
Håvedalen
Trailhead
Buses stop at Håvedalen and Allemarksvägen. No stay at the stage end: the Allemarken shelter is about 1 km before it.
Walking time for this leg
- Vassbotten to Håvedalen: 7–8 h · graded hard. Measured on the mapped line: 5 h 29. bohusleden.westswedentrails.se, read 13 October 2026
Make it your trip
Open shelters, a few huts, beds by the towns
The trail's shelters (vindskydd) are open to all, first come; they cannot be booked. The hut on Vaktarekullen is always open and cannot be booked either. Friluftsfrämjandet lets Hällerstugan (booked online) and the Modalen hut (members, associations and schools, one night, booked ahead); Krokestugan is closed for overnight stays. Flötemarkens Vildmarkscamp takes guests by phone, for a fee; hotels, hostels, the lodge at Kynnefjäll and the campsites are booked with each of them. The right of public access lets you pitch a tent or two for a night away from houses and farmland, but nature reserves have their own rules: in two areas of the Svartedalen reserve tents are not allowed at all, and fires only at the places the county board marks.
Älvsåker to Strömstad
All 27 stages in 21 days, each night at a shelter, a hut or a bed.
Plan this journeyÄlvsåker to Jonsered
The southern stages round Göteborg in three days, with trains at Anneberg and Jonsered.
Plan this journeyKynnefjäll to Strömstad
The wild north in seven days, with the unmarked stretch on stage 21.
Plan this journeyWeather this week
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Weather by month
Typical weather on this stage, around 51–187 m. Select a month to see why it is rated as it is.
| Month | ||||||||||||
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| Weather | Poor | Poor | Mixed | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Mixed | Poor |
| Day / night | 1°/-3° | 1°/-4° | 4°/-2° | 9°/1° | 15°/6° | 18°/10° | 20°/12° | 19°/12° | 15°/9° | 10°/5° | 5°/1° | 2°/-2° |
| Rain, mm | 78 | 63 | 50 | 49 | 55 | 82 | 81 | 90 | 86 | 113 | 99 | 92 |
| Snow at high point | Possible | Possible | Possible | Frost | – | – | – | – | – | – | Frost | Possible |
| Daylight | 6 h 57 | 9 h 15 | 11 h 41 | 14 h 22 | 16 h 49 | 18 h 24 | 17 h 48 | 15 h 35 | 12 h 57 | 10 h 23 | 7 h 50 | 6 h 17 |
Source: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages. Averages for the area at each point’s elevation (4 km grid, corrected for height). Not a forecast or a report of current trail conditions. Snow at the high point is estimated with a simple snowpack model from these temperatures and precipitation, not observed; steep islands and high summits can hold more snow than it shows. Daylight is for the 15th of each month. Hut, transport and park seasons are separate: check them for your dates.
Before you go
Prepare for Bohusleden
Arrange your stays, food and travel first, then check conditions again near departure.
Stage 21: map and compass
Stage 21, Flötemarksön to Porsås, is not waymarked between the bridge at Holmen and road 164. You find your own way there with map and compass, on paths and small roads: road 164 is the boundary to the north, and walking south Stora Kornsjön is on your left. West Sweden Trails recommends the stage only for walkers who must pass this way; it gives 14 km and 5 to 6 hours. From Flötemarkens Vildmarkscamp to the Nornäs shelter, the next night, is about 22 km.
West Sweden Trails: stage 21The wild north
From Kynnefjäll north, the trail crosses Bohuslän's largest wilderness: few roads, long stretches without houses, and buses that are very sparse, above all at weekends and in school holidays. Plan your nights in the shelters and huts and carry food for several days.
West Sweden Trails: stage 19Trail notices
West Sweden Trails posts the trail's status in its map planner. On 13 October 2026 it listed a collapsed bridge between Lilla and Stora Ramsjön on stage 5 (use the new one), logging at Romelanda on stage 7, forestry work on stage 8, and the bridge at Kaserna closed for rebuilding with a temporary footbridge. Read the notices before you set off.
West Sweden Trails: BohusledenSvartedalen and the reserves
Stages 8 and 9 cross the Svartedalen nature reserve. In its areas 1 and 2 tents are not allowed at all, and fires only at the places the county board marks; use the shelters, such as those at Bottenstugan. Other reserves on the way have their own rules.
Länsstyrelsen Västra Götaland: SvartedalenHuts on stages 14 and 15
Friluftsfrämjandet runs the huts on stages 14 and 15. Krokestugan is closed for overnight stays while its repairs are reviewed; Hällerstugan can be booked online; the Modalen hut is for members, associations and schools, one night at a time. The shelters beside them stay open.
Friluftsfrämjandet Uddevalla: KrokestuganThe raft at Strömmarna
On stage 15 a raft on ropes crosses the Munkedalsälven in the Strömmarna reserve. When the water is low it cannot be used, Västkuststiftelsen has warned.
Västkuststiftelsen: the raft and the water levelGetting there
Connect your journey
Travel around Vassbotten to Håvedalen.
Google Maps journey searches, not confirmed services. A mountain endpoint may need a booked transfer or an additional walk.
To the start at Älvsåker
Commuter trains stop at Anneberg station, handy for the start; the Älvsåkersgården bus stop is close by, and there is a large gravel car park at the trailhead.
Västtrafik: journey plannerOn the way
Round Göteborg most stage ends have a stop: Gunnebo park (Stensjön), Welandersgatan with trams (Skatås), Åstebo (Kåsjön), the station at Jonsered and buses at Angereds kyrka. Further north buses are rare or absent: Grandalen and Anvik see very few, Hasteröd, Vassbovik, Bjursjön, Metsjö, Vaktarekullen and Flötemarksön have none. Munkedal has buses and trains, and Loviseholm, about 2 km from Porsås, is served from Ed.
Västtrafik: journey plannerHome from Strömstad
The trail ends in Strömstad, which has both trains and buses at its station.
West Sweden Trails: stage 27Take your trip with you
Offline maps
Prepare each stage while you still have a connection: in the forests and on Kynnefjäll the signal can be weak, and stage 21 needs a map of your own.
Keep your route and maps on your phone for places without a signal. For multi-day trips, prepare them in the installed TrailSplits app.
- Open this trail in the app. Install TrailSplits, then open this trail there. On iPhone, downloads in a browser may not be available in the installed app.
- Choose your route or stages. Choose Prepare offline above. Wait for the route and maps to finish downloading.
- Try it before leaving coverage. Switch offline, close and reopen the app, then use My Hikes to start navigation. Repeat for every part you will need.
Saving a bookmark is not a map download. Storage can be cleared by your device; keep a backup map for remote trips.
Route & sources
Route map & sources
West Sweden Trails (Västkuststiftelsen) publishes Bohusleden as 27 stages, about 350 km from Älvsåker, where it meets Hallandsleden, to Strömstad, with an official stage time for each, shown beside ours on every stage. The line here is the route on OpenStreetMap (the 27 stage relations of relation 280016, from the planet of 11 October 2026, without their side trips): 350.1 km, cut where the stage relations meet. Every stage is within about 1 km of the official length but one. Stage 21 is not mapped between the bridge at Holmen and Porsås, because it is not waymarked there: the map shows that part as a dashed straight line, 4.3 km, which is not a path. On the ground stage 21 is 14 km and 5 to 6 hours, walked by map and compass; plan by those figures, not ours. Our climb is measured on terrain heights, so short steep rises are smoothed out.
Official guidance and mapped-source comparison checked 13 October 2026. Map data is a route reference, not confirmation of today's path, weather or accommodation availability.
West Sweden Trails: BohusledenMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors · Source relation