Kategori: Hiking/cycle trails

Cycle routes: Prehistoric Road

Oldtidsveien – The Ancient Road

Along the main road between Fredrikstad and Skjeberg in the Municipality of Sarpsborg you will find the highest concentration of ancient monuments from the stone bronze, and iron ages: burial mounds stone rings and fortified hamlets. Here you will also find monumental rock carving sites that tell of our forbearers everyday life with human figures, animals, ships and wagons, weapons and tools, together with symbols in lines, circles, sun-crosses and hewn out dish shapes. The road runs through an historical landscape rich in natural beauty, with scenic farms fields and meadows, woodlands and glimpses of glittering sea.

Contact Fredrikstad Tourist Office for more details on the route.

Cycle routes: Kråkerøy

Kråkerøy – Here you will find the best cycle tracks in the municipality. Start in Smertulia the open park area about 500 m south of Kråkerøy Bridge. take Solliveien past Kråkerøy School and the Athletics Stadium. 
Turn left along cycle lane to Kråkerøy Church and ride south to Lunde. The three old buildings here were once schools the eldest date from 1858. (Side road at Lunde to Ødegårdsstua – a typical Kråkerøy house from 1800`s).

Continue southwards along the cycle lane, cross the main road at the signpost to Tangen, (open air swimming)
Return  the same way, but at Enhus take the main road back past Rød School and Ekheim, an impressive property from the timber baron`s era once owned by the Kjærs family. (Today, privat property).
From Ekheim take the gravel road towards Rødsmyra bac to Solliveien.