South Mines Trail
The South Mines Trail is our newest cultural trail. This area, located south of the car park at the Cobalt Mines, had been overgrown for many years. After the landscape was cleared, long-forgotten cultural and industrial relics came to light - and lost scenic viewpoints became newly accessible.
Characteristic of the landscape in Sydgruvene are the rock piles. These are built up of residual stone that has been taken out of the Cobalt Mines where the cobalt ore is sorted out. It is these rock piles that have shaped the landscape and which we can follow today on the Sydgruvene Rundt cultural trail.
During the round-trip journey, you pass the remains of old settlements, a mine tunnel and deep opencast mines, using an old ore road network that connected Malmveien with the cart roads over to Simostranda.
The round trip is partly on gravel roads and partly on paths in rough terrain. The tour can be extended with a detour, approx. 1 km one way, to the viewpoint Hoggvarden. Don't miss out on this almost 360-degree view!
