Do Outdoor in Mölndal, lakes and trekking
Do outdoor in Mölndal. The municipality has a lot to offer, a combination of great nature, many sports and recreational areas. The small city centre is full of shops and cafés.
Nature is close and therefore it is to go swimming in the lakes of Mölndal At the lakes you can take a lovely walk to the Castle Gunnebo . Enjoy a day at the castles garden and visit the café. There is also a restaurant/ pizzeria with an outdoor terrace. To get there, just take a local buss to Stensjöns badplatser.
Sports are close by
At Krokslättsvallen you can play football. The soccer pitch is municipal and therefor open to the public.
Playing fotboll at Krokslättsvallen
Nature Reserves and protected nature areas in Mölndal
In the nature reserve Safjället, right by the fotboll pitches you can hike, discover an old agriculture and historical landscape with great hiking. If you want to find out more about the history of the area and other historical hiking landscapes.
The municipality of Mölndal has three nature monuments. In the areas of the Gunnebo castle you will find a nature protected oak, in Helenvik, close to the lake Råda ( Rådasjön) there is a protected copper beech and in Peppared nature reserve you can find a hazel grove which since 1925 has been was classified as a Nature Monument. It has a large hazel grove with arborescent hazel trees.
School yards and sport areas open to the public
Many of the school yards have a sport court for outdoor sports. If you bring a ball you can practise a sport or two. At for example Toltorpsskolan there is a playground, basket court and outdoor table tennis
Playing basketball at the Toltorp school
In Bifrost, right behind the supermarket Hemköp you find a soccer pitch, a playground with nice climbing as well as playgrounds for smaller children.
In the centre of Mölndal you will find shops, a big library and a small recreational park.