Small walks in nature

Photo: Elliott Hope Studio

Take the children out into nature on these little walks in nature. The selected routes lead to pleasant hours in nature with room for both fun and learning.

Nature for all ages

Here you will find an overview of selected short trips in nature for the whole family. 

You can find many more routes of different lengths on Vejle Municiplaity's website.

The playground in Give Museum Forest
Museum Give

Give Museum Forest

Combine a visit to Museum Give with a visit to Give Museum Forest. Here you will find a fun forest playground with balancing tracks, a bonfire hut and a dog forest, and of course lots of exciting trees, flowers and animals. If you follow the route around the forest, it is 4 kilometers long.

By clicking on the link, you will find the route, parking options, toilet conditions, etc.

Hastrup Plantation

The white hiking route in Hastrup Plantation is 1.2 kilometers long. The route takes you past the forest playground, where there is also a campfire. To the north there is a beautiful view of Lake Hastrup, where you can experience the lake's rich birdlife.

By clicking on the link, you will find the route, parking options, toilet conditions, etc.

Children on swings at the forest playground in Sønderskoven in Vejle
Mads Hansen

Sønderskoven Forest in Vejle

The blue hiking route in Sønderskoven is 3 kilometers long. Here you will find both a forest playground and a dog forest. The forest playground offers, among other things, play and climbing frames, and there is also a toilet and fire pit. It is easy to get to the forest playground with a pram.

By clicking on the link, you will find the route, parking options, toilet conditions, etc.

House in Vingsted Iron Age on a summer day
Eliza Danesi

The Queen's Bog

This 4.5-kilometer round trip takes you past the Iron Age village of Vingsted and close to the bog, where a 2,500-year-old bog body was found in 1835, long believed to be the Viking queen Queen Gunhild. You can see the bog at the Vejle Cultural Museum.

The route goes along both forest paths and paved roads. It can be difficult to get there with a stroller in some places.

By clicking on the link, you will find the route, parking options, toilet conditions, etc.

Deer in the Deer Park in Nørreskoven Forest on an autumn day
Mads Hansen

Nørreskoven Forest in Vejle

On a trip around Nørreskoven Forest you will find both the deer park, Gorilla Park, a fire cabin, 'the Snail House' and a dog forest. 

There are several routes around the forest between 3-10 kilometers long. The various routes follow forest paths around the forest.

A visit to the deer park is guaranteed to bring big smiles when you can experience fallow deer and sika deer up close. If you want to spend more time in the forest, you can stop by the fire cabin, where you can cook over a fire. It is also possible to book the Snail House (Sneglehuset), which is a forest cabin with all necessary facilities and space for 25 people.

It is possible to park at the deer park by the road called Helligkildevej.