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City of Umeå
The city of Umeå, Northern Sweden

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Umeå Turistbyrå

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info@visitumea.se

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Umeå Turistbyrå

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.

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Come to the big outdoors

Depending on which time of year you come to Sweden think ‘outdoor activities’. In wintertime, Sweden is a haven for winter sports such as skiing, skating and ice climbing. While in spring and summertime you can enjoy trekking, mountaineering, white-water rafting, canoeing, sailing and many other adrenaline-filled pursuits.

Central and northern Sweden are dotted with winter and year-round resorts where you can enjoy skiing, dog-sledding, snow scooters, white water rafting and hiking, to mention just a few. From trekking in the serene wilderness that is Sarek National Park to pitching camp with the Sami, the indigenous people of Swedish Lapland, Sweden offers unique outdoors activities, landscapes and experiences.

Bro Hof Slott Golf Club, just outside Stockholm

Play golf in Sweden

Sweden has made a name for itself as a golfing nation with the success of golfing legend Annika Sörenstam and leading PGA Tour players Carl Petterson and Henrik Stenson. This is an achievement made more remarkable given Sweden’s long winters, but unsurprising given the quality of Sweden’s golf courses.

Lookout from Skierffe, Rapadalen in Swedish Lapland

Lapland, Sweden

In the Lapland region in the far north of Sweden, you can find the most vast, dramatic and spectacular untamed wilderness areas that Europe has to offer.


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