Welcome to Solendet !

This nature reserve was established in 1974. The total area of the reserve is 3064 daa (ca.766acres). About a half of this is covered by rich fens (calcareous fens), the remainder is mainly wooded grassland and heaths.

For many centuries past, and up to the 1950`s both the fens and grasslands of Solendet
were scythed to yield a supply of winter fodder for the livestock on the farms of the Brekken district.
Through centuries the flora has been acclimatize to the mown of the grasslands, and the mineral-rich water has been basis for an especially rich flora with wealth of species .

After 1950 the farmers stopped to cut the hay, and the hayland began to overgrown.

Afterwards Solendet became protected, appreciable extents of the Solendet reserve are once again being mown, but now using a two-wheeled tractor, with the aim of maintaining the former open landscape.
Two of the old bothies, three hay-barns and some of the stack poles have been restored.

Two nature trails have been laid out, traversing the most interesting parts of the reserve; the locher one is 3 km and the shorter route is 1.5 km in length.

Solendet lie about 5 km north of Brekken.
On the road 705 there is a road sign, and at the parking place is a map that show you the two nature trails.
Please remember that all plants on the Solendet reserve are protected by law.
If you which, here you can come with me on a walking tour in Solendet.

Links about solendet

To Brekken ..... ..... To Skottvollen