In the scenic Hammer Bakker you can find cosy, primitive campsites with large and spacious shelters. Here you have the opportunity to sleep outside in nature in all kinds of weather, test your skills with food on a fire, enjoy the tranquility that lies over the square and go exploring in the beautiful nature.
Hammer Bakker consists of many wooded hills and large heathland areas. Today is 400 ha. of Hammer Bakker protected, while 1400 ha are privately owned. The area is circular, almost shaped like an island.
The soil in Hammer Bakker is rocky and sandy, and therefore lakes, bogs and streams are rare in the area. Instead, the landscape is characterized by heaths or dense coniferous forests. Due to the meager land, Hammer Bakker has not invited for cultivation or settlement. Despite the lack of settlement, one can still find plenty of traces of ancient human activity.
Until 1688, Hammer Bakker was a meeting place for the county governors and the county bailiff, where they met weekly to decide, for example, lawsuits. Hammer Bakker was also the place where the executioner swung the ax over the convict or led the witch to the fire. There are therefore no less than 62 burial mounds around the hills. Tvillinghøje and Stenhøj have been designated national antiquities.
Animal and plant life
The area is a known breeding ground for a large number of forest birds, here among rare species such as dove hawks, wasps and night ravens. In addition, the large heathland is known for a rich fauna of day butterflies. Also deer, foxes, badgers and squirrels are very common in the hills.
Coniferous plantations dominate the forests in Hammer Bakker, but you can still find large stands of old multi-stemmed beech trees. The beech trees were dominant in the forest before the great predation of the forest increased in the 1800th century. Since then, large conifer plantations were carried out in the hills in the years 1882-1915.
Food in the forest floor
If you go hiking in the hills, you hardly need to bring packed lunches. There are lots of both cranberries and blueberries on the moors. Here, however, one may have to fight against the sheep that are exposed as part of a nature conservation to which the heath is subject. If you do not have the strength to take up the fight with the sheep, you can instead search into the forest areas, where there are plenty of edible mushrooms, including especially pipe hats. Bon appetite.
There are also 3 marked routes that lead around the southern and eastern parts of the hills.
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