The Bohuslän Coast
West Coast · Coast

The Bohuslän Coast

Granite skerries, cold swims and seafood shacks, all the way to the border.

168 km
Distance
3
Days
920 m
Climbing
Easy
Grade
Paved & gravel
Surface
May–Oct
Best season
All routes

Sweden's west coast at its best — pink granite, cold swims, oyster shacks and quiet gravel between the fishing villages, all the way to the Norwegian border.

Elevation

0 km ▲ 56 m 168 km

The line

Day by day

Day 1

Gothenburg to Marstrand

Out of the city onto the archipelago road; ferry-hop to the fortress island.

58 km
Day 2

Skerries and oysters

Slow coastal gravel, a swim off the granite, oysters at a harbour shack.

62 km
Day 3

North to the border

Quiet lanes through fishing villages up toward Strömstad.

48 km

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