Mölleslingan, the Mölle loop, packs the whole village into 4.6 km: the harbor, a stretch of shore, old redoubts and the wooded slopes of Kullaberg just above the rooftops. Höganäs municipality maintains the loop and has waymarked it. Most of it is easy going on lanes and the shore path, but a few short stretches are rough. Allow about 1.5 hours; it makes a good first walk on the evening you arrive.
An October stroll up a lane in Mölle, with Kullaberg behind
Photo: Guillaume Baviere · CC BY 2.0Climbing a rocky path at Mölle's northern edge, near Solviken
Photo: Karl Baron · CC BY 2.0The route
The loop starts and ends at the old station house by Mölle bus station, where there is also an outdoor gym. From there it heads south-west down to the shore, then follows the water north through the harbor. From the harbor to Solviken, the bathing place at the northern edge of the village, it shares the shore path with Kullaleden.
At Solviken the loop turns inland and climbs to the forest edge, then runs east above the village. At Aldal, an entrance to Kullaberg nature reserve, it follows the Red trail for a short stretch. It then comes down the slope and joins Kullaleden's shortcut to Himmelstorp for the last part, past Mölle kapell, the 1930s chapel at the village entrance, and back to the station. The free car park by the chapel lies right by the loop, so you can just as well start there.
Along the way
Mölle grew into a popular seaside resort around 1900; its harbor was built in 1878–81. North of the harbor, look for a water-level mark carved in 1750 into Mågehallen, a rock on the shore, and for the remains of early-1700s redoubts: first Cissa skans, then the best preserved, Karl XII's redoubt, built in 1715–16. Solviken once had a jetty for shipping out stone from the quarry below Barakullen, the hill above the bay. In early spring the slope above Mölle kapell turns blue with hepaticas.
Good to know
- Rough stretchesfour short sections, just under 1 km in all, are hard going: one where the loop drops to the shore at its southern end, two along the forest edge and one on the slope above the chapel. Höganäs municipality's map of the loop marks them. Wear shoes with a good grip; these sections are no place for strollers or wheelchairs.
- Junctionsseveral trails meet the loop. Where it shares the path with Kullaleden you'll also see orange markers, and at Aldal the Red trail's red ones, so check the signs at each fork.
- Dogskeep them on a leash in Kullaberg nature reserve, which the loop touches above the village, and off the municipality's listed bathing beaches 15 May–15 September.
- Seasonyou can walk the loop all year.
