Pieljekaise is a Swedish

national park A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...

. It lies about south of

Jäkkvik Jäckvik (pronounced ) or Jäkkvik is a mountain hamlet in Arjeplog municipality on Swedish national road 95 (''Silver Road''). It is located near Pieljekaise National Park and about 20 km south of the Arctic Circle The Arctic Circ ...

Arjeplog Municipality Arjeplog Municipality (, ; ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Arjeplog. The area, which now is Arjeplog Municipality, used to be a single parish (Swedish: ''socken''), which was made into a munic ...

, Lappland. The park consists largely of

birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 3 ...

woods. The park is traversed by the

Kungsleden Kungsleden (King's Trail) is a hiking trail in northern Sweden, approximately long, between Abisko in the north and Hemavan in the south. The full distance breaks down into 419.3 km of trekking, 18.2 km of lake crossings and a 29.5 km stretch o ...

hiking trail and the trail continues into the nearby the Vindelfjällens Nature Reserve, one of the largest protected areas in Europe.

References

External links

Sweden's National Parks: Pieljekaise National Park
from the

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (), formerly the National Swedish Environment Protection Board () is a Government agencies in Sweden, government agency in Sweden responsible for proposing and implementing environmental policies. It was ...

National parks of Sweden Protected areas established in 1909 1909 establishments in Sweden Geography of Norrbotten County Tourist attractions in Norrbotten County Lapland (Sweden) Arjeplog Municipality 20th-century establishments in Norrbotten County {{Norrbotten-geo-stub