Length: 7.3 km
Experience a beautiful route through Vammen with views of Skals Ås meadows and the Ice Age landscape. The route takes you through a meltwater valley up to a distinctive Bronze Age mound – a former beaver mound in a unique location.
Follow the camping road towards Vammen and keep left at the Y-junction.
In Vammen, turn left onto Hobrovej.
At the intersection by the grocery store, turn right onto Nørregade. The road leads past Forsamlingshuset on your left.
Vammen Church from around 1200 has a Romanesque apse, choir and nave. The tower and porch are late Gothic additions.
You now walk – still on Nørregade – through the oldest part of Vammen, Nederby, and outside the town you get a magnificent view of the vast meadows with Skals Å. Here you can also see the slopes, valleys and ravines of the Ice Age landscape, which this tour also passes.
Turn left on Vester Kærvej at the wastewater treatment plant. This gravel road is a communal road that leads to some smaller properties on the edge of the meadow. It is also the access road to the meadows where farmers used to fatten their cattle and where peat used to be dug. The campsite also had small meadows here. Now many of the meadows are unused, which allows for a rich bird and animal life.
A short distance along Vester Kærvej, where there is a pole with black and red markings, turn left up through a meltwater valley. Above the valley you can see a large Bronze Age mound. It is very high (56.3 meters above sea level) and was once a beaver mound.
At the T-junction, turn left onto Norupvej and follow it until it ends in Haugårdsvej. Turn left onto Haugårdsvej. You pass Langsø Friskole and the road ends in Nørregade, where you turn right. At the grocery store intersection, turn left onto Hobrovej. After approx. 200 meters, turn right onto Langsøvej and follow it to the campsite.
a) A village hall is a small town’s/village’s shared cultural center and meeting place used for lectures, meetings, events, private or public parties, etc. There are approximately 1,000 village halls in Denmark.
b) A beacon mound is a high point that was used from the Middle Ages until the 19th century to signal danger situations, for example from an attacking enemy. A woodpile, a beacon, was lit so that the danger signal could be seen from afar.