Originally Posted by
Spudd
My husband and I will be biking across Sweden, from south to north. Current rough plan is Ystad - Happaranda. He wanted to go to Kiruna, but I vetoed it because it's too out of the way, makes the trip longer, and riskier IMO. I'm hoping we'll have enough time to take a day at the end and ride north of the Arctic circle. We still need to do our more detailed route planning. The bike route information for Sweden is hard to come by... it seems like there are 2 major routes - Sverigeleden and Cykelsparet - but they must be ordered online and they're quite expensive. Husband bought a map when he was there in November, but it's just a regular roadmap without bike route information. He couldn't find the bike route maps in the stores.
Yeah, the Sverigeleden bike maps are quite expensive. I have all three sets and they're more like touring maps with the Sverigeleden marked on them. The reason they're so expensive is because they aren't only maps, but have numbers relating to locations with a little blurb of info. It's all that extra info you're paying for.
I don't know if you've seen this -
http://www.svenska-cykelsallskapet.s.../sveledeng.pdf
Basic Sverigeleden info you've maybe seen before, but it does at least have listings of the towns it goes through and distances between key ones. The trail is very well marked in most cases. There's only been one case where I went wrong because a sign for a turn was missing. Granted, I've cycled less than 200 miles of it, I think. Essentially, every part of it within 40 miles of my home
. The roads and trails of the Sverigeleden are generally very good and not TOO bad traffic wise. Worst I've had to deal with is are freshly grated dirt roads. Nothing like bouncing over new raked stones the size of chicken eggs!