Description
In the area there are seashore meadows, pastures, arables and a stream ravine. The forested parts contain primary rock pine forest and virgin spruce forest. In the central part of the reserve rises a 50 metres high and very steep mountain ridge, with the flatlands in the west and the Stavbofjärden bay in the south. Below the mountain the Skillebyån stream meanders as if it was deeply carved into the fine-grained sediment. Along the sides of the stream grows a leafy tree curtain. By the seashores there are grazed meadows and further from the water the shoreline meadows merge into drier open pastures where the hoary plantain grows.
Accessibility
There is bus service to the area and the bus stop is by the old E4 road. Information boards have been placed near the bus stop at the parking area by the boat club. There is a private road through the nature reserve and it ends at Eneby boat club. Passages have been made through the fencing so that the pastures and the bath place on the cape are easily accessible.
The purpose of the reserve:
To preserve a valuable nature- and walking area. Another purpose is to secure cultivation in pastures and on shoreline meadows and to make the most easily disturbed biotopes more accessible for recreation.
Decree: Södertälje Municipality, February 4, 1997.
Acreage: 62 hectare.
Conservation manager: Södertälje Environmental Department.
Restrictions for the public:
Besides regulations and prohibitions in laws and constitutions it is not allowed to:
- Drive motorised vehicle.
- Park a caravan.
- Camp in a tent or moor a boat for more than one night.
- Ride elsewhere than on marked riding paths.
- Deliberately disturb the wildlife, for example by climbing trees.
- Bring unleashed dog or other pet.
- Make fire in other places than those that are provided for this purpose.
- Pick or dig up plants.
- Use sound equipment in a disturbing way.
- Use climbing equipment.
- Take twigs or branches from the ground or from living or dead trees.
Picture above: Cows relaxing on a hill above the seashore meadows in the nature reserve. Photography Bjarne Tutturen.
