Why this ride
A 248 km round trip from Järvsö - roughly 4 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Gästgivars, Pallars, Erik Anders and back through Pallars. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Kristofers and Erik Anders
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 248 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 34
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Kristofers
In Hälsingland, the farmers got rich on flax, and then they spent the money on wallpaper. From the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth, prosperous families in the forested valleys of this part of central Sweden built huge timber farmhouses, each with a festive room reserved for weddings, funerals and holidays, and decorated it with painted murals, stencilled borders and trompe-l'oeil panels in extravagant colours. They are still standing, red-painted outside, ornate inside, and seven of them were listed by UNESCO in 2012 as the decorated farmhouses of Hälsingland.
Read the complete Kristofers write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kristofers is where the day begins. Next is Gästgivars.
2. Gästgivars
Gästgivars is a farm in the village of Vallsta, in Hälsingland, in central Sweden, and inside its wooden buildings are some of the finest painted rooms in the country. It is one of the seven decorated farmhouses of Hälsingland inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012, recognized for the extraordinary wealth of folk art that prosperous farmers commissioned in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The name means the innkeeper's farm, and it once served as an inn for travellers along the road through the Ljusnan valley.
Read the complete Gästgivars write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Gästgivars comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pallars.
3. Pallars
Hälsingland, a province in central Sweden, is a country of long forested ridges and deep river valleys, and its farms are far from ordinary. Pallars, near the village of Alfta, is one of seven Hälsingland farmhouses inscribed by UNESCO in 2012 as the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, and it stands in open farmland about six kilometres from the village, with Edsbyn twelve kilometres away and Bollnäs, the main town, about nineteen.
Read the complete Pallars write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Pallars. Next is Erik Anders.
4. Erik Anders
The farms of Hälsingland are one of the odder success stories of Swedish history. In the nineteenth century, farmers in this part of the country grew rich on flax and linen, and they spent their wealth not on grand manor houses but on enormous wooden farmhouses with elaborate painted interiors. Rooms were reserved for celebrations, and decorated with biblical scenes, flowers and ornamental borders by travelling artists. Seven of these farms are on the UNESCO list, among them the Erik-Anders farm, near Söderhamn, whose neat red buildings stand in a clearing among fields and forest.
Read the complete Erik Anders write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Erik Anders, about halfway. Next is back through Pallars.
5. back through Pallars
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pallars write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Pallars sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gästgivars.
6. back through Gästgivars
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gästgivars write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Gästgivars comes up about 218 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kristofers.
7. Kristofers
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kristofers write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kristofers closes the day.
Leg by leg
Kristofers to Gästgivars
Kristofers → Gästgivars is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gästgivars to Pallars
Gästgivars → Pallars is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pallars to Erik Anders
Pallars → Erik Anders is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Erik Anders to back through Pallars
Erik Anders → back through Pallars is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pallars to back through Gästgivars
back through Pallars → back through Gästgivars is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gästgivars to Kristofers
back through Gästgivars → Kristofers is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
More motorcycle rides nearby
- Erik Anders and Bommars · 231 km
- Pallars and Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland · 120 km