Attractions, hiking & more!
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If you feel like experiencing something more, on top of what Stocken Camping can offer, we are a good starting point for various excursions.
For more tips and information, ask our staff or visit our little red Info-pointcabin by the reception.
Käringön, Gullholmen and Hermanö are beautiful carfree islands that are well worth a visit. The easiest way to get to the ferry location in Tuvesvik, 5 km from the campsite, is by car or bike. Bikes are available for rent at our golf kiosk.
Why not take an islandtrip over to Evert Taube’s Malö, Handelsmans Flink on Flatön and Ängön? (Evert Taube was and still is, a most respected swedish composer/troubadour). Driving up the Bohus coast along these charming island summerroads, only to be interrupted by smaller car ferries, is definitely to be preferred than hurrying along the main roads.
Golfplayers may want to visit Orust Golf Club, in Morlanda. It is a seaside course set in amazing surroundings with a tremendous seaview. After golf it is possible to enjoy a delicious lunch or coffee at their restaurant.
A day trip to Gothenburg is a given for anyone who enjoys the westcoast citylife and its many features, combined perhaps with a visit to Liseberg, the amazing amusement park that has been around since 1923.
Charming, old fishing villages up and down the westcoast are popular destinations! For example here on Orust: Hälleviksstrand with its beautiful red wooden church, or Mollösund where you walk among old quaint houses on narrow streets and you buy fresh fish and seafood from the fishmongers in the small harbour.
In Klädesholmen, on Tjörn, you can visit the Herring museum, and learn more about the history of herringfishing and the life of the fishermen and their families.
Sillmuseet – Klädesholmens Museum – Herring museum
A day spent on Tjörn, to for instance visit the outdoor Pilane Sculpture Park – don’t forget to bring your picnicbasket, and the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärholmen, is a day well spent.
At Havets Hus, the saltwater aquarium in Lysekil, you get to learn a lot about life and the environment in the western sea.
Nordens Ark in Hunnebostrand is another popular attraction – a zoological garden focused on among other things conservation of endangered species.
If you feel like testing your sea legs, you could book an archipelago- or fishing tour, or perhaps a seal safari!
You could also rent a SUP, or a kayak for the day and leisurely explore the coves and islets, swim from the rocks, have a picnic and just enjoy summer by the sea at its best?
Hiking on Orust
From easy walking trails near the campsite to more demanding trails,
Orust offers hiking for everyone.
When you want to stretch your legs around the campsite, there is a choice between the Blue Trail (4 km forest path/gravel road), the Orange Trail (8 km slightly more mixed terrain with both meadow, forest and coastal nature) or the White Trail (approx. 2 km), which goes via the Dogbeach to the rocky beach. Maps of the walks are available in the Tourist Information hut, or you can borrow them from reception.
Huseby hiking trail – about 10 km from Stocken campsite. The trail is 3.5 km long and runs along steep forest paths in parts, but also offers amazing views of the Bohuslän archipelago from the top of Huseby ancient hillfort. Ruins of stone of old farmsteads appear along the way and not least Orust’s – and perhaps Bohuslän’s – largest beech forest by an ancient seashell ravine. For a map of the trail and how to get there: Husebyleden Hiking trail on Orust
