28,000 students can’t be wrong. The university town of Umeå is the hub for outdoor activities in northern Sweden.
Welcome to the university town of Umeå, the hub for outdoor activities in northern Sweden.
Umeå is a university town with many good eateries, clubs and bars. The cultural calendar includes the Umeå jazz, film and chamber music festivals and events at Norrlands Opera. Umeå shines for its range of outdoor activities. Year-round you can go trekking on Iceland ponies, and in wintertime you can go dog-sledding through the pristine forests and plains, or go cross-country skiing; there are ski tracks that criss-cross the town. The rest of the year you can go on seal and beaver spotting trips, or enjoy canoeing, kayaking, mountaineering, fishing and hiking trips. And much more.
There are regular daily flights from Stockholm to Umeå and the flight takes just one hour.