Visit the National Park in the beautiful autumm weather 

The national park offers many exciting longer and shorter hikes in the Mols Bjerge. Here are four suggestions for routes where you can get out and see the beautiful colors of autumm

Explore the new nature area

The national park has expanded with a new beautiful nature area at Agri. Perfect for a walk in the beautiful colors of autumn.

 

Langbjerg

 

The area consists of previously cultivated agricultural land, forest and grazing area and, after extensive monitoring, has revealed to contain many rare species. Including the country's only known locality for a wasp species (in Danish called glat gæstehveps) as well as red-listed and rare wasps, ants and grasshoppers. 

The area's permanent residents, the hardy and robust horses and cattle, have already moved in, and public facilities such as lock gates, signage, marked paths and benches should make it easier for visitors to use the area.

Suggested starting place: Parking lot at Agri (Agri Bavnehøj Vej no. 9, 8420 Knebel).

On a combined forest and coastal tour in Ruggaard Sønderskov

It is a special experience in all seasons to visit Rugaard Sønderskov, which lies on the verge of the Kattegat.

 

Rugaard Sønderskov

 

The trees grow on an almost impermeable subsoil of plastic clay and when it is particularly humid here in the autumn, you can experience how the big trees sometimes slide out and fall towards the sea.
The forest is private and owned by Rugaard Estate, but the public is welcome to visit as long as you stay on the many established forest roads and the coast itself.

Suggested starting place: Parking lot at Heksedammen at Rugaard Estate (Rugaardsvej 14, 8400 Ebeltoft)

Old love in Tolløkke Forest

Just outside Ebeltoft is the small and cozy Tolløkke Forest. Take a walk around the forest's two and a half kilometres hiking trail and enjoy the old oak and beech trees in their autumn colours. Here National Park Mols Bjerge works to return the old production forest to a more wild and natural forest, to the delight of birds, bats, insects and the many special plants that grow here.

 

Tolløkke Forest

 

And if you are curious about old love stories, the beech trunks are in many places scratched and carved with hearts, names and dates, testifying that the forest was once the favorite refuge of Ebeltoft citizens who had just fallen in love.

Suggested starting place: Parking lot, Skovalleen, 8400 Ebeltoft

Bird watching at The Gravlev Track 

The approximately eight kilometre long path is built on the old railway line Ebeltoft-Trustrup. The landscape is varied, and the tour goes through willow swamps rich in chickadees and warblers near Ebeltoft, Dråby's quiet beech halls, over the open country and past lakes, meadows and fields, where you can experience and enjoy larks, coots, ducks and geese.

 

The Gravlev Track

 

About 500 meters before the end of the hike in Gravlev, there is a marked path to Stubbe Sø. If you want to add bird watching to your day, you can take a quick trip past the lake to the bird. 

Suggested starting points on the route: Parking lot at Netto (a supermarket) in Ebeltoft and Parking lot at Møllebækvej near Gravlev