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Laxtjärnen
Laxtjärnen is a tiny lake — just seven hectares of still water resting at 500 metres above sea level — deep in the Reivo Nature Reserve of Swedish Lapland. Its name translates as "the Salmon Tarn," a nod to the noble fish that once ran the streams feeding into the Piteälven river system. Today the lake is a quiet waypoint in one of Sweden's largest old-growth forest areas, reached by hikers following marked trails through ancient spruce, open mires, and low fells rising above the treeline. The Reivo reserve, roughly twenty kilometres north of the town of Arvidsjaur, is a designated Natura 2000 site and a haven for biodiversity. Around Laxtjärnen the landscape is a mosaic of dense boreal forest, peat bogs, and scattered mountain lakes. There are no facilities at the tarn itself — the experience is that of the wider reserve: long quiet hikes, salmonid fishing in the stocked waters, and the ever-present possibility of encountering lynx, wolverine, or the three-toed woodpecker.