Lida Friluftsgård, located in Botkyrka municipality in Stockholm, offers a fantastic outdoor area with lots of different activities for children and adults. You can come here to hike in the Lida nature reserve or to try the Acropark high-altitude course, for example.
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Lida Outdoor Centre and Nature Reserve
Lida Friluftsgård is a popular and well-liked place, and it's not hard to see why. The farm has 35 kilometres of hiking trails, jogging trails and ski trails. At Lida there is also a swimming area by Lake Getaren, a ski slope, a high-altitude course and outdoor golf.
Through Friluftsfrämjandet, there are fairytale-themed nature trails for children and a newly launched "Naturparkourpark" for children who want to climb, jump, crawl and discover nature in a new way. Many different competitions, events and camps are also organised here.
Lida Friluftsgård and nature reserve is located just south of Tullinge, in Botkyrka municipality in Stockholm County. We went here one day about a week ago, together with our neighbours Johan and Erica, to walk the Adventure Trail around Lake Getaren. It was a fantastic day!
Lida Inn
When you park in Lida, you can immediately see the inn, which is located on a small hill. There is a restaurant that serves lunch and coffee, and you can also organise a conference or party here. There is also a hostel in the area and the Naturport picnic hut, with microwave ovens and a small exhibition about animals and nature in the Lida nature reserve.
Lida sports church
Right next to the inn you will find Lida sports church. This is a cute little church, located with a fantastic view of Lake Getaren. The church was built in 1957 with the help of donations and voluntary work, and belongs to Friluftsfolkets Gudstjänstkommitté.
Acropark high ropes course
There are many different activities at Lida Friluftsgård, but the one we saw most of was the Acropark high-altitude course, which seemed to be very popular. Here we saw many families and children who wanted to try exciting climbing adventures.
Hiking trails in Lida Nature Reserve
We chose to walk the Adventure Trail around Lake Getaren, but there are also many other trails and hiking paths around Lida Friluftsgård. The Sörmlandsleden (which is about 1000 kilometres long in total) passes through here. There are also three trails that have orange labelling:
- Lida - Brantbrink 5.2 km
- Lida - Storvreten 4.8 km
- Lida - Harbro 6.6 km
There is also Friluftsfrämjandet's "Sinnenas Stig" and "Skogsmulles Hjulspår", where you can get around with a pram and wheelchair. For younger children there are four short (300-700 metres) adventure-themed trails:
- Forest mulch trail
- Fjällfinastigen
- Laxestigen
- Nova ladder
Adventure trail in Lida nature reserve
We walked the Adventure Trail, which our neighbours had walked once before, but in the other direction (you want some variety!). It turned out to be a really nice hike. The adventure trail is about 9.5 kilometres long and goes around Lake Getaren. The terrain is wild and hilly, which is also why the trail is called "Äventyrsstigen".
You climb over logs and stones, sometimes down into deep ravines and then up to high altitudes with fantastic views of the lake.
It is an extremely green and beautiful hike and the forest sometimes feels like a real magic forest, with fallen trunks and dense moss. In one place you can write in a guest book, which is kind of cute!
We found a nice place to eat our packed lunch, overlooking the lake. The spring sun was burning hot and it was really, really nice. We also had the chance to have a long chat with our nice neighbours.
At the end of the tour, we first passed a cute little farm with sheep, and then marshland with a small bird watching house. Then we were back again at Lida Friluftsgård. This was a super nice tour, which we can highly recommend!
Have you been to Lida Friluftsgård or Lida Nature Reserve? How was your experience?
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Facts about Lida outdoor centre and nature reserve
- Address: Lidavägen 1, 146 33 Tullinge
- Size: The nature reserve covers approximately 825 hectares. Lida Friluftsgård is located outside the reserve, but serves as a good starting point.
- Formation: The nature reserve was established in 2010.
- Municipality: Botkyrka municipality
- Sea: Tears
- More info: You can find more information on Lidas website.
Nature in Lida Nature Reserve
- Nature: Mixed woodland and old-growth forest.
- Plants: Some uncommon species such as lung lichen, violet-grey thorn lichen and candelabra fungus, and grey tick.
Services at Lida outdoor centre
- Inns: Lida Inn serves lunch and coffee and can be booked for parties, weddings and conferences.
- Overnight stay: You can stay in a hostel or rent a cabin or wilderness lodge. You can also stay in a tent or shelter.
- Church: Church services are held on special occasions.
- Barbecue areas: There are 11 organised barbecue areas around the site.
- Rest house and toilets: There are toilets and a picnic hut (Naturport) where you can heat your food.
Accessibility at Lida Outdoor Centre
- Parking: On the footpath towards the beach there are two car parks marked for people with reduced mobility. There are also two car parks in the courtyard.
- Enter: There is a ramp to the Lida Inn and to the changing rooms.
- Toilets: Naturporten has an accessible toilet.
- Leader: There is an 800 metre long wheeled track, which is intended for prams, wheelchairs or people with walking difficulties. The tyre track is marked in blue.
- Activities: The open-air golf course is accessible, and it is possible to water ski at the Lida water ski club with disabilities. There is also a 200 metre wide accessible walkway to the bird hide in the wetland.
Activities in Lida Nature Reserve
- Hiking: There are several different hiking trails. Friluftsfrämjandet also has fairytale trails for younger children.
- Motion: There are many fitness trails, as well as instructor-led group training in nature (Multibanan).
- Mountain bike: Two fixed trails are available for trail cycling.
- Skiing: There are ski tracks of varying lengths. There is also a gentle ski slope suitable for beginners and a ski school.
- Skating: In the right conditions, skating rinks are ploughed on Lake Getaren.
- Lida nature parkour park: Free park for parkour.
- Acropark high-altitude course: High altitude course with challenges for different ages.
- Outdoor golf: The outdoor golf course is a 12-hole course.
- Fishing: Fishing is free in Lake Getaren, but not with nets, longlines or where people are swimming.
- Bath: At Lake Getaren there is a popular swimming spot.
- Water activities: In summer, Electrosurf rents out electric surfboards. The Lida Water Ski Club organises camps and try-out activities.
- Model boat club: Stockholm Modell Boat Club (SMBC) operates at Lida friluftsgård.
- Bastuflotte: A wood-fired sauna raft is available for hire.
- Dog bath: Dogs are welcome to swim below the ski slope and at the water ski club, but not when the model boat club is training and competing.
- Fitness centres and outdoor gyms: Lida Gym is an indoor gym. There is also an outdoor gym.
- Competitions, events and camps: Various events are organised, such as Lida Loop, Toughest and Lida Outdoor Festival. You can also organise things like camps, hen parties or stag parties here.
Finding Lida Outdoor Centre and Nature Reserve
- Car: Turn off road 226 at Botkyrka Hantverksby onto Pålamansvägen. From here it is signposted towards Lida Friluftsgård. If you use GPS, enter: N 59 9´ 48.24″ E 17 52´ 54.84″.
- Municipal: Take the commuter train to Tullinge station. From here take bus 721 to Lida Friluftsgård.
Snows says:
Now is the perfect time to enjoy the beautiful nature in our neighbourhood. We must be grateful that we can at least move outdoors! Tourism at home will be the new thing for a while to come.
18 April 2020 - 16:23
Helena says:
Yes, that's it! We are so grateful that we can move outdoors. We take the opportunity to discover nature in the county and there is a lot of nice 🙂 .
18 April 2020 - 17:09
Ditte says:
Surely it is now extra nice to stay outside and take these long walks. We have visited Lida a lot before, but now it is not possible because we do not go by public transport and do not have a car. But we have other nature nearby so it's quite ok anyway. And we are outdoors a lot. Average of about 1 mil/day.
I understand that you had a lovely day out here.
18 April 2020 - 16:37
Helena says:
Good job walking so far every day!!! And there are nice areas even closer of course!
18 April 2020 - 17:10
Emma, sun like sun? says:
That's it! Now you've been in my neighbourhood! I wonder how many times I have cycled to Lida for swimming, tip walks, exercise trails ... Many activities all year round with the scouts and the school. Remember the summer -82 when I and my friends hand in hand jumped from the bridge and I came all the way down to the bottom and there cut my foot, the scar remains. Probably some glass bottle someone threw into the water.
Glad you liked it, it's really nice there. They have done a lot since I was a kid!
18 April 2020 - 16:40
Helena says:
But what fun that you have so many memories from here! Or yes, the injury in the foot was not so fun of course ... Lida is really great and a lot of activities are organised there!
18 April 2020 - 17:11
I Monica says:
Lida is world famous for its festivals for 20 years.Here came David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and a thousand other famous musicians, were very nice festivals without the dregs that were common, no, here all ages could camp and others could easily get back and forth.Today it is said that it could have continued with a little more help but the artists' wages went away so they chose to end.Have the same experiences as Emma, probably been here 1000 times, an understatement, nowadays sometimes, has a nice Christmas table. In the 50's, snow trips were arranged here from Stockholm, many celebrities here over the years.Erskine has been responsible for Lidahuset.And I think every school child south of the city has been forced to walk from the age of 7 in these ravines with more or less competent teachers, the rescue that always a couple of parents took a holiday day and took care of the little ones, myself for example.We trained our children but not all parents could or wanted to so our children took care of their friends as in a parental role.Sometimes a child (ADHD) ran away and the teacher disappeared for the day.
18 April 2020 - 17:40
Helena says:
How interesting to hear about all the concerts and the like in the past. I had no idea about that!
19 April 2020 - 7:34
Biggeros says:
Such beautiful nature and hiking trails. It would be something for me who loves nature. Fun that it is also Emma's home area that you reflect. Right now I want to be released into freedom but I am happy that you take me for free via your pictures <3
18 April 2020 - 17:44
Helena says:
Very nice! Being out in nature should only be good, I think, as long as you keep your distance. Can't really understand this that you are not allowed to go out at all?
19 April 2020 - 7:35
BP says:
Never heard of Lida Friluftsgård. But it is soooo nice there. Oh what leg muscles you will get after all the hikes you have done during the corona crisis. No evil that has no good with it, you could say.
18 April 2020 - 20:05
Helena says:
Yes, we work a little on the leg muscles 😉 Most of the coronavirus is shit, but all evil also brings something good with it!
19 April 2020 - 7:35
Liniz Travel says:
How cosy you have it hugs
19 April 2020 - 11:14
Lena - good for the soul says:
I have of course heard about the area, but have never been there. It looks really nice!
Hug Lena
22 April 2020 - 6:19
Annie - Big Little Adventures says:
I should go there sometime 🙂
Seems very nice 🙂
26 April 2020 - 11:02