Gålö havsbad och camping - med vandring i fin natur

Writer: Helena Bergström

We are now at Gålö havsbad and camping, in Skälåker in Haninge. This is a very nice campsite with huge green areas, nice bathing area, many electrical sites for motorhomes or caravans, lots of small cabins you can rent and above all really beautiful nature around.

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Gålö sea baths and camping

If you want to get out into nature without travelling too far from Stockholm, we can really recommend Gålö. Gålö seaside resort is located about 35 kilometres south of Stockholm, in the municipality of Haninge. There is a nice campsite here and opportunities to walk in the forest, fish, swim and ski, depending on the season, of course. According to the information brochure, you can also hire bicycles, boats or horses.

At Gålö Havsbad and camping you stand nicely on grass, and from here you are close to the beach, nature, service centre and reception. There is electricity in most places that we can see, and also water. It seems that there may also be a restaurant here if you come in high season, but nothing like that is open now. Read more at the campsite's website.

The reception closed at 19.00 yesterday, and when we realised we would be late, we called the campsite. No problems! This could be solved by the staff putting the key in the mailbox ... Now we are well on the campsite and can access both electricity and service house and everything else we need. The only thing that does not work so well here is the Internet. Our mobile broadband is really slow out here unfortunately.

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Nice beach

We are really lucky with the weather and the sun is shining down on us. We have made our way down to the beach, which looks really nice. When it's warm in summer, it's probably popular to swim here.

Beautiful nature on Gålö – ”Lilla Gålöslingan”

We walked the ”Lilla Gålöslingan” trail two days in a row. This is a 4.5-kilometre walking trail, which sounds like a fairly easy walk. We wouldn't say it was overly challenging, but it was definitely a walk in the countryside.

You had to climb up cliff edges, jump over logs, crouch under tree branches and balance among roots and rocks. So it was a pretty good exercise tour anyway! All the time we had to walk through beautiful nature and very often along the water, with great views.

We made several nice and some less nice finds in the forest. Among the nice finds we can count chanterelles, Karl Johan mushrooms and blueberries. Love to make such finds! The less pleasant finds include two vipers and three ticks. I don't like snakes, but they lay very still and seemed uninterested in us, so it was really just to pass by.

We also saw a hare in the forest. But we didn't meet any people. It is of course different in high season, but right now it felt like we had nature to ourselves. This was a very nice walk through beautiful nature, which we can definitely recommend if you come here!