Nybro: Nature, Hiking Trails and Glass Culture

The Svartbäcksmåla Nature Reserve covers 345 hectares and surrounds the southern parts of the town of Nybro. Deep coniferous mixed forests, grove-like deciduous forests, dry sandy areas and damp alder marshes can be found in this area. From central Nybro, the nature reserve can be reached via walking and cycling paths through the Pukeberg glassworks area or from Hanemåla.

Nature

Rismåla göl is a 4.4-hectare lake in the Ljungbyån catchment area. An accessible path leads through the area from the bathing area in the Rismåla Nature Reserve and is suitable for most visitors. The bathing area also has a picnic area with a wind shelter and fire pit.

The Allgunnen Nature Reserve covers 2,300 hectares. Most of Lake Allgunnen, as well as its larger and smaller islands, lies within the nature reserve. Several marked hiking trails lead through forests and wetlands there.

The traditionally managed meadow in Fjelebo is of great cultural and historical value. 600 species of macromoths have been observed in the Grytsjön area.

Active pursuits

The Svartbäcksmåla activity area has six MTB trails totalling 27 kilometres, as well as a skills trail, a pump track and a flow trail. The approximately 16.5-kilometre Upplevelseleden hiking trail runs through the Svartbäcksmåla activity area.

The signposted Bjällingsmålaleden hiking trail is 2.7 kilometres long and starts on Patron Trädgårdhs väg by the car park for the nature reserve. Bjällingsmåla Nature Reserve has a shallow sandy beach and a barbecue area.

At 84 kilometres, Dackeleden is the longest hiking trail in Nybro Municipality. On its route from Mosjön in the south to Aboda Klint in the north, it passes through Svartbäcksmåla. The Orrefors hiking trail combines hiking and glass culture with the historic industrial landscape, nature and traces of the Ice Age.

Svartbäcksmålabacken has three downhill runs and a fun park with boxes and rails.

Culture

Flygsfors is one of the seven best-preserved glassworks environments in Nybro Municipality, and the Glasbruksleden trail runs through Flygsfors. Nybro is home to the only James Bond museum in the world.

Nybro Simhall offers recreational swimming, lap swimming and swimming lessons. It has a 38-degree hot tub, a one-metre diving board, a three-metre diving platform and a climbing wall in the deep end of the pool.

Designarkivet is located on the former Pukeberg glassworks site and is a national archive that collects knowledge about design processes in Sweden. Its collection comprises around 120,000 archival items from approximately 800 designers and companies. Designarkivet hosts seasonal exhibitions and welcomes archive and research visitors by appointment.

The Kyrkstallarna in Madesjö are now Sweden’s second-longest wooden building.

Places and transport

The municipality includes Målerås, Kristvallabrunn, Kråksmåla, Orrefors, Örsjö, Nybro, Gullaskruv, Kulla and Alsterbro.

Nybro railway station offers numerous daily departures with direct train connections to, among other destinations, Kalmar, Växjö, Gothenburg and Malmö. Kalmar länstrafik connects the places in Nybro Municipality with one another, as well as Nybro with the rest of Kalmar County, via public transport.

For the higher-level travel overview: Kalmar.