Abisko, Sweden

Journeys through here in Abisko

Every curated route, theme and story in the Atlas that passes through Abisko. None of them was written to fill this page.

3 curated routes through Abisko, drawn end to end on the same projection as every other map here. Drawn from Natural Earth 1:110m admin 0 countries, public domain.

Arctic to the Baltic

Over the border into Sweden's rain shadow, for the clearest skies in Lapland and the top of the Kungsleden.

19 days

The Cold North

South-east into the driest winter sky in Lapland, and the chairlift into it.

18 days

Arctic to Mediterranean

Over the border into Sweden by the Iron Ore Line, through Lapland.

34 days

Rail Europe

The Iron Ore Line to the Norwegian coast, through Lapland and above the tree line.

Theme

The long walk nobody finishes

Europe has four trails over a thousand kilometres long. Almost everyone who starts one stops, and the ones who plan to stop have a better time than the ones who do not.

7 min

This page exists because Abisko has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Abisko.