Wilderness Canoeing Sweden: Challenging Canoe Tours in Rogen Nature Reserve with Wild Camping

Dates & Prices

Duration: 8-14 days

Dates/Period: Tours start/end on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays between 15.06-15.09.10

Price: from £186/tour per two persons

Accommodation: Wild camping

Required: You must have extensive outdoor experience for this tour and a good level of fitness/strength. Swimming ability for all participants. Minimum age 16.

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Femundsmarka

Femundsmarka National Park lies on the Norwegian side, bordering Rogen in Sweden to the east and Lake Femunden to the west. The park was created in 1971 with an area of 381 square km, increased in 2003 to 573 square km.

More than 10% of the Femundsmarka park is water, with many of the watercourses running from the east into Femunden. The waters are rich in fish, the most important species being trout, Arctic char, grayling, pike, burbot and perch. It is also a very important nesting area for wetland birds.

The highest point in Femundsmarka is Stor Svuka at 1415m. Femundsmarka is Norway's most southerly area of the indigenous Sami people and has been used for reindeer husbandry since the 1600s.

A challenging wilderness canoeing adventure for experienced outdoor enthusiasts

Canoeing holidays in Sweden: Rogen

Rogen Wilderness Canoe Expedition is a challenging self-guided wilderness canoe tour in the remote mountain region of Rogen Nature Reserve in north-west Sweden, beginning on the Swedish side of the border and crossing over to the Femundsmarka National Park in Norway to end at a choice of two finish points on the Norwegian side.

For those with previous experience of paddle tours, extensive experience of the outdoors and a good level of fitness and strength, Rogen Wilderness Canoe Expedition offers extended canoe touring through a stunning landscape of lakes, islands, peninsulars and bays. The area is also well-known for its grayling and trout fishing - a marvellous way to supplement your camping provisions!

Starting with a lift of around 700m to the launching point, your canoe expedition continues down to Stortandsjön ("Large Tooth Lake"). Many choose to allow a couple of days here to explore the area, perhaps leaving the canoes for a while to hike to the lakes of Bredasjön and Våndssjön.

You make your way west and into Norway, planning your own route and distance covered each day, camping wild along the way. There are also wind shelters at certain points in the park, at which you are welcome to overnight if unoccupied. These spots also have fireplaces, where you are permitted to make a fire.

We recommend that you allow plenty of time to cross from the western shore of Lake Rogen down to Femunden - this is a very challenging stretch of the tour. Between Nedre Roastan and the Röa river, the going is steep with long carries over rocky terrain but is interspersed with glorious paddling on sections of calm water.

For the last section of your canoe tour, you can choose one of two possible routes - north along Lake Feragen to be collected on the northern shore, or west through a beautiful network of small lakes to end at Röros.

There are two portages of approx. 700m and 500m required for this tour in addition to a large number of other land transports over steep and uneven terrain, and at times you will almost be climbing with the canoe. There are also many sections of rapids at which you must take the canoes and equipment out of the water with land transports of up to 2km required.

Rogen Wilderness Canoe Expedition is a tough but very rewarding paddle tour in a stunning and remote area - an ideal choice for the experienced outdoor enthusiast and a tour to give a lifetime of memories!

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