Destination Kittelfjäll consists of villages along the road Sagavägen, which stretches from the high coast of Örnsköldsvik in Sweden to the Helgeland coast in Norway, a distance of 67 miles. A road that offers both an interesting culture and powerful and varied natural experiences along the way from coast to coast.
Here you are surrounded by mighty mountains and from the small genuine mountain villages you can discover our local nature and culture, do beginner-friendly hikes, try mountain fishing, or discover our scenic roads that are perfect for those of you who want to go on slightly longer rounds with your gravel or road bike.
Which accommodation suits you? Here you can choose between comfortable hotel rooms, simpler family rooms, or cottages with self-catering.
Craving something to eat or drink? Stop by for a coffee break, lunch or grab something tasty to drink, or why not book a table and enjoy a delicious dinner at one of our restaurants or cafes.
Discover our local nature and culture with beginner-friendly hikes, mountain fishing, scenic roads perfect for gravel or road biking, canoeing or just enjoy our beautiful mountain valley and its magical views.
Sagavägen runs from Örnsköldsvik by the Baltic Sea to Åsele, Vilhelmina, Kittelfjäll and then on towards Norway. The journey takes you from the World Heritage High Coast in Sweden to the World Heritage Vega on the coast in Norway. When you travel along the Sagavägen, you get to take part in sea environments, forest landscapes and mountain environments that create contrasts with varied nature experiences and with visits to small genuine villages along the way that invite you to take part in the local nature and culture.
Here there are numerous fairy-tale trails, places to visit and rest areas to stop at that tell about the local nature and culture.
If you want to learn more about our local nature and culture, we suggest a few stops in our valley. Stop by the church in Dikanäs, which is one of Vilhelmina parish's oldest preserved churches, our local village museum or take a short hike to one of our Sami villages or the Vojmåstigen, which tells you more about local plants and their areas of use.
Plants have long been used in cooking and as medicinal plants in Kittelfjäll there is a hiking trail with information boards that tell about the valley's local plants and their areas of use. The hike also takes you to Marsfjällen nature reserve, where on the south side there are reddish-brown serpentine moraines where bare mountain sedge grows among twisted pines.
In the valley there are preserved Sami residences, one of them is Silisen's Sami residence, which was long used as a spring and autumn residence when the Sami herded the reindeer between the different grazing lands, where they stopped and rested, let the reindeer graze and then continued their journey to summer or winter areas.
At Bygdegården in Henriksfjäll is our local village museum, where you can learn more about the settler culture and the people who lived here in the past & now, with stories about the villages and about what it was like to grow up and live in the mountain countryside during the 20th century. Bygdegården is open during the summer in the museum and also has a summer cafe and flea market.
When this was still undeveloped land, people traveled on water and winter roads, and one of the more important in the county passed Dikanäs on the way to Norway. Today it follows Sagavägen where it passes the village of Dikanäs. Settlers and the permanent Sami in Vojmådalen received permission in 1829 to erect their own chapel. Today, Dikanäs church is one of Vilhelmina parish's oldest preserved churches. There are a total of 7 churches in Vilhelmina municipality alone.
Sagavägen gets its name from the local stories and legends that are told in the villages and takes you on an exciting journey where you get to take part in the local tales from the area that have been told for generations. To highlight these fairy tales, there are trails & rest areas along the way where the visitor can take part in tales & legends about vittra, stable people, giants and other creatures and maybe you can see them if you look really closely.
Starting at the sågforsen, you walk along Vojmån and get to take part in local tales and stories from the area and together look for small fairy-tale creatures and animals that are painted in the forest.
In Kvarnbäcken, which is right next to the village of Rönnäs, you will find "Näcken" being played in the stream. There is also an exciting trail with stories and paintings.
Up on Kyrkberget, right next to the Samevistet in Vilhelmina, stand the trolls Tallus & Tallina and welcome you to follow the fantasy-evoking fairy tale path.
This path takes you into the forest and you will find painted figures from the local tales. Among other things, here is Stalo, who was a mean giant who tried to deceive the Sami and often fell for his own grasp.
The giants from the northern mountains met the giants from the eastern sea in a battle of life and death between Åsele and Krötselberget and the giants fought until the mountain giants were defeated. The mountain king stood there alone and in his despair he uprooted a large pine tree which he threw at his enemies. The mountain king did not notice that his daughter whom he loved so much stood in the way, and she was hit and died.
His tears filled the entire valley from Lapland's highest mountain right down to the sea.
The Mountain King climbed onto Borkan's highest peak and struck with his hammer so that the sparks flew and half of Borkan's highest peak fell and struck a hideously deep pit in the ground. The giant lifted it up and placed it opposite so that it would become a king's daughter's resting bed.
When he lifted the block, there was such a deep pit where the stone had fallen that when it was filled with the Mountain King's tears, it became a great long lake. Then the Mountain King said that your name should be Borkajaur and that is still the name of the lake today.
The mountain king's daughter was laid there on a bed and all the flowers of the mountains became her blanket. Torches were lit which burned the ground far and wide and there was a roar in space, for it was the burial of the Mountain King's daughter.
Even today you can see the Bergakungen's daughter lying stretched out on Kittelfjället's highest peak, and at the foot of the hill that plunges down towards the lake and towards the country road, the cracked rust-red outcrops look like after a fire. The ashes were sown around the hills and in the valley that will glow red until the day of judgment, next to the Mountain King.
This is an excerpt from the story of the Giants and the Bergakungen's daughter's Sarkophagus, which can be found in the book Sagor från Vilhelmina, written after Lisa Johansson. You can read thewhole story along the Sagostigen in Kittelfjäll.
Author: After Lisa Johansson, Sagar från Vilhelmina
Along the road there are several places to visit that invite everyone to take part in local nature and culture. Here we have collected short information and links to tourist information along the way.
This is where the Sagavägen begins and ends, where the forest landscape meets the Baltic Sea. Here you can visit the Källarbacken Saga trail or the Brynge cultural area, which tells about Swedish industrial history. There are also museums and art exhibitions to take part in.
Åsele is located in the forest country, between the coast and the mountains, here there are nice hiking trails and proximity to several nature reserves, including Björnlandets national park and Stockholmgata, which is located on the border between Åsele and Övik municipality.
Vilhelmina consists of both forest and mountains, and here you can take part in the Sami culture at the Sami residence on the church mountain or visit the church town that reminds of life many hundreds of years ago. Here you can buy local handicrafts or visit the Homeland Museum and live in a genuine environment.
When you reach the Norwegian part of the Sagavägen, you travel through the large mountain areas that border Sweden, here the Vapstälven flows wide on its way down to the Atlantic. Here you can visit Sjögatan in Mosjöen, hike to nearby peaks such as Torghatten by Brönnösund or connect to the Hurtigrutten in Sandnessjöen.
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