Kullaberg's marked trails climb through beech forest, cross grazed heath and follow cliff tops high above the sea, and Kullaleden carries on around the peninsula past fishing villages and shingle shores. Add the village loops and the paths built for wheelchairs and strollers, and there are walks from 800 m to about 70 km.
Signpost to Mölle and Håkull on Kullaberg, on a yellow-banded post with an orange Skåneleden plate
Photo: Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden · CC BY-SA 2.0A red waymark on a pine in Kullaberg nature reserve near Mölle, in autumn 2012
Photo: Guillaume Baviere · CC BY 2.0Walkers at the map board by a Kullaberg nature reserve trailhead
Photo: Karl Baron · CC BY 2.0How the trails work
Länsstyrelsen, the county administrative board, manages Kullaberg nature reserve, including the accessible loops at Björkeröd, and smaller reserves such as Nabben and Skäret. Kullaleden is part of Skåneleden, Region Skåne's trail network, and is kept up locally by the municipalities of Höganäs and Helsingborg. Höganäs municipality also runs most of the village loops, KullaRulla and the municipal reserves Lerbergsskogen and Ärtan och Bönan, while Brunnby parish looks after Kyrkstigen.
Most trails are color-coded. Kullaleden has Skåneleden's orange marks: square plates or painted squares on posts and trunks, orange bands around trunks in nature reserves and arrows at turns. An orange plate with a cross means you have gone wrong. Kullaberg's own trails usually have painted dots or bands on trees, posts and stones; where two trails share a path you see both colors, and faded red can look orange. The purple, white and black loops at Björkeröd are named after their lines on the reserve's map. Skåneleden and Naturkartan also grade difficulty by color, which has nothing to do with the waymarks.
At junctions on Kullaberg, signposts give place and path names, usually with distances in kilometers. Since 2023, a black plate reading RÄDDNINGSPUNKT / RESCUE POINT, with a number, has been fixed to every signpost in the reserve and at other key spots. In an emergency, call 112 and give the nearest number, or the last one you passed. Side paths down to coves and caves are mostly unmarked, and the path to Nimis has only unofficial N marks.
Choosing a trail
- Red trail9.6 km and the gentler crossing of Kullaberg, from the lighthouse along the southern slopes to Arild
- Blue trailabout 8.6 km and the toughest: narrow and stony along the north cliffs and over the highest tops, from the lighthouse to Himmelstorp
- Yellow cross pathsshort links, mostly between the Red and Blue trails, for making a loop
- Kullaledenabout 70 km in six stages: easy from Mölle to Domsten, challenging across Kullaberg and up the Landborgen escarpment into Helsingborg
- Gentler walksthe village loops, Kyrkstigen, the loops at Nabben and Skäret, and the accessible paths at Björkeröd and on KullaRulla
Maps, apps and GPX
Länsstyrelsen's folder “Kullaberg”, in Swedish, English and German, has a map of the reserve's trails. Länsstyrelsen and Höganäs municipality also publish their trail descriptions and maps on Naturkartan, an app and website. Skåneleden has no app of its own, but its stages are in apps such as Outdooractive, and the map on Skåneleden's website shows water, toilets, shelters and current diversions.
Every trail drawn on the map has a GPX file on its page, for your phone or GPS watch. The tracks come from OpenStreetMap; where a track and the waymarks disagree, follow the waymarks.
Rules that apply everywhere
Most trails cross nature reserves, whose rules limit the right of public access (allemansrätten).
- Dogson a leash all year on Kullaberg and in most other reserves, and everywhere in the countryside 1 March–20 August; Höganäs municipality's bathing beaches are closed to dogs 15 May–15 September, except to pass through on a leash
- Firecheck Räddningstjänsten Skåne Nordväst's fire-risk forecast first; on Kullaberg, grills and even camping stoves are allowed only at the fixed grill sites at Fyrparkeringen, Josefinelust, Björkeröd and Himmelstorp, and nowhere during a strict fire ban (skärpt eldningsförbud); the smaller reserves allow fires only at marked places, if at all, and never disposable grills; in public places in Höganäs municipality, grill only at its grill places
- Overnighton Kullaberg, tents only on the tent site at Fyrparkeringen; you may sleep in the shelters at Josefinelust and Himmelstorp, but not in a tent, under a tarp or in a hammock; no camping in the smaller reserves or, outside campsites, in Höganäs municipality's public places, nature areas and beaches
- Bikes and horsesno cycling on the paths of western Kullaberg (Västra Kullaberg); in the eastern part, bikes only on the marked MTB route and horses only on the bridle paths; Skåneleden asks you not to cycle or ride on its trails
- Nesting birdstwo zones on Kullaberg's north coast are closed 1 March–15 July, among them the paths down to Visitgrottan and Söftingsgrottan and the descent through Djupadal, though the Blue trail itself stays open; Jonstorp–Vegeåns mynning and the point at Strandbaden have bird closures of their own
- DronesLänsstyrelsen does not allow them on Kullaberg, and the smaller reserves ban them below 120 m
- Natureleave plants where they grow, close gates behind you and keep your distance from grazing animals
Länsstyrelsen has proposed new rules for Kullaberg, among them a bird closure until 31 July. No decision had been made by October 2026.
