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Björnlandets Nationalpark
Björnlandet is one of Sweden's most prized areas of primeval forest—a landscape of ancient, fire-scarred pines, boggy spruce mires, block-strewn cliffs and still lakes in the inland taiga of southeast Lapland. Designated the country's 22nd national park in 1991 and doubled in size in 2017, it protects woodland whose dominant pines reach well over 400 years of age, while the scars of a great 1831 fire still read across the trees. It lies about 20 km southwest of the small locality of Fredrika, in Åsele Municipality (Västerbotten County), with its main entrance at Angsjön. What makes it special for a visitor is how easily you can take it in: a compact network of marked hiking trails (roughly 2.6 to 12 km) that can be combined as you please, free first-come cabins to sleep in, a genuinely accessible ramped walk from the car park, and a sweeping viewpoint from Björnberget out over the mires and pine hills.