Söderhamns archipelago - available to everyone

The strategy for making the unique archipelago available for everyone was founded many years ago and through consistency and hard workthe city has built an impressive infrastructure offering transportation, accommodation and activities even for the disabled.

Spending the night in a cabin or youth hostel in the Söderhamn archipelago could be an adventure. All'n'all there are more than 100 beds available but there is no running water and no water closet. Instead, every visitor has to bring own drinking water and use facilities like composting toilets. Every visitor has access to a sauna and a rowing boat, not to mention the beautiful environment full of rare birds and plants. The strategy for making all this available to everyone concerns also the price. One night in a six bed cabin is about 50 EUR per cabin, a little more than 8 EUR per person.

Those who do not own a boat of their own can use the tour boat that passes the islands with the cabins, or book a ride with the taxi boats operating in the archipelago. Söderhamn is now connecting the city to the archipelago. Where the city meets the water handicap friendly fishing docks with low rails makes fishing even from a wheel chair a fun and safeexperience.Thereisa nation wide well known trailer camping site right by the water sharing the service facilities with the visitors of the guest harbour. The plans for a combined information center with exhibits showing the flora and fauna of the ocean as well as a sea food restaurant has not yet left the drawing table but might be a reality in the near future.

The city has recently acquired a large and unique camping site, Stenö camping, with its own beautiful beach, docking places for boats and much more. Stenö has the potential to offer entrepreneurs a base for their on and off water activities. These future plans will be developed in close cooperation with the local entrepreneurs. The archipelago of Söderhamn is already today well worth a visit. Rent a canoe, go fishing with professional fishermen, take the tour boat to a distant beach or spend the night in one of the cabins next to the lighthouse on Storjungfrun, the largest island.