The size of the naturereserve is 71 ha. It has a center of 10 ha that consists of a mixed beech and spruce forest, but the spruce dominates the reserve. The purpose of the nature reserve is to let a mixed spruce and beech forest with long continuity on highproductive land, develop freely, so that the natural dynamics can be followed and the great values of the nature can be preserved.


The 19:th of June 1995 the County Administrative Board decided that the area should be classed as a nature reserve. The reserve is today owned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

The forest in the reserve is relativley old and untouched, and the spruce that came from the north, and the beech that came from the south, have met and now compete about the high productive and rocky land. Both beech and spruce reproduces relativley easy underneath the existing forest.

The mix of beech and spruce have great ecological values. A pollen analysis shows us that the area has a continuity since more than 2700 years. The beech came here  about 950 years ago in connection with a small fire. The spruce came  about 200 years ago.

The Siggaboda area is interesting also from a zoological view, because there is a fauna with many different species of insects that are unique for the county and rare in the country. These species have a connection to old beech forests with long continuity. About 20 of these species are threatened or vonerable. Some of these species are Callidium Coriaceum, Scardia Boletella and Ceruchus Chysomelinus.  

The botanic values are very large with many different kinds of unusual mosses, lichens and fungus. 
The area has 153 different kinds of mosses, and 7 of them are threatened. Among the fungus that have been found are 8 of them threatened and about 40 of them are rare. The finding of the fungus Mucronella Bresadole is the second one in Sweden.

The orange path is about 2,5 km long. It also passes "Snapphanestenen", and here you can see the oldest spruce forest in the reserve, with a thick layer of moss on the ground and on the rocks. Here you can study natures own struggle between beech and spruce. Here are many dying and dead trees and some very large. If you would like to visit only this part of the reserve, there is a blue path that is about 400 meters long.

Be careful with this unique nature.

If the layer of mosses and lichens are damaged it can take many decades before it is restored.

Don´t tread on the mosses and lichens and dont climb on the blocks and boulders. Dont touch the lichens that hangs from the trees.

Children needs to climb - But let them do that outside of the reserve. Not where sensitive nature can be damaged.

If you arrive with a group, inform them about the care that is needed and walk in a row so that the path not will be widened and damaged.

Enjoy the nature - welcome back!

If you want to know more exactly where the reserve in Siggaboda is, please click here  and search for E53. The reserve is a bit outside of the map.