About the Canoe guide
The Canoe guide site (www.kanotguiden.com) presents about 400 different trips by canoe and kayak in Sweden on lakes, rivers and small streams as well as tours in archipelagos and along the coast. That is all kinds of tours, from whitewater paddling to sea-kayaking. We also list canoe and kayak rentals all over Sweden.We try to expand and update our homepages all the time and thank you in advance for any information and suggestions and encouragement that will help us in our work.
As we had our 3 years anniversary on the net in november 2002, we made a little congratulatory page about the Kanotguiden with some statistics from the beginning and quotes from friendly mails about our services.
If you too enjoy our site, we would greatly appreciate if you tip a friend about it or maybe put a link to the Canoe guide. Just copy the blue text below and paste it into your own homepage.
<A HREF='http://www.kanotguiden.com/Canoeing.htm'
TARGET='_blank'>Canoeing in Sweden</A>
Of course you are also welcome to bookmark the Canoe guide site from the menu at the homepage.
Different types of tours
Long-distance paddling
Continuation downstream
Map numbers added to Facts of the tour
Extending the tour descriptions
New tour suggestions
2008.02.23 Starting from Skåne you now will find links to detailed maps from hitta.se.
2007.08.13 Storån övre + nedre, #39-40 in Småland paddled and scouted.
2007.05.11 See our database showing >300 companys serving paddlers all over Sweden.
2006.05.28 New sea kayak trip to the Gåsöarchipelago, #10 in Bohuslän.
2006.01.02 More visits than ever to the Kanotguiden. 345000 visits 2005!
2005.08.21 New archipelago trip, #29 in Uppland, Blidö runt.
2005.05.12 New trip on lake Mälaren, #21 Rödstensfjärden in Stockholm.
2005.01.07 We had 328 000 visits in 2004 (+12%) to the Kanotguiden pages.
2004.07.20 New archipelago tour (# 26 in Uppland) Gräsö skärgård from Anders Lindgren.
2004.02.24 New route, Vindelälven mellersta 2, #7b in Lappland, south.
2004.01.01 Thanks a lot for the 292 000 visits in 2003 to the Kanotguiden pages.
Tour presentations
Here we explain and give some tips about how to understand and use the tour presentations and the Kanotguiden pages. The tours are based on descriptions and maps from tourist offices, canoe and kayak centers, canoe clubs and our own paddling tours. By offering a wide selection of tours we hope everyone can find and enjoy at least one trip in Sweden.
Navigating between the provinces
From now on you can navigate directly at any province map to surrounding provinces at the same map. So you don't have to return to the map of Sweden in order to choose another province.
The menu choice Choose type of tour lets you choose between White-water paddling, Wilderness tours, Sea-kayaking, Archipelago tours and others.
We have combined all inland trails on rivers and lakes that are possible to continue downstream without too many and too long portages. This has resulted in about 800 trips with a distance of about 10 km:s to 577 km:s. So, if you please visit the Long-distance paddling page, you will find trips lasting for half a day to several weeks.
Now possible connections downstream has been added to the tour descriptions. If there is a continuation, information containing a link to the tour, portages (if needed), distance and degree of difficulty (if relevant) follows.
Starting from the south we now add the map-sheets numbers for the tour if you would like to buy the maps. The map is called the "Terrängkartan" with the scale 1:50 000 and is very detailed and perfect for paddling.
During the coming years we intend to develop and extend the tour descriptions as much as possible. That implies both the descriptive text with guiding tips, more pictures and even more links to canoe and kayak rentals, other services and what is worth seeing along the
trails.
Moreover also new tour suggestions come to our knowledge and are added successively and sometimes we hopefully think that the number of canoeing and kayaking waters in Sweden perhaps is rather endless.
Key maps
Now maps from Google are added to all tour presentations. You can zoom in double-clicking on the left mouse button, zoom out with the right and drag the map with the left button pressed. There are also navigation tools and map needles showing coordinates and so on placed on the map.
Detailed maps for each trip from hitta.se
Perfect if you want to study a trip more thoroughly, as this map shows a lot more details. You can zoom into a scale of about 1:7700 and the "Kartfunktioner" up to the right will help you to determine coordinates, measure distance and so on. You will find the link to the detailed maps 
directly after the name of the trip.News and updates
2008.07.01 Wilderness trip on the Forsmarksån , a new trip (# 29) in Uppland.
2008.06.26 New canoe tour, please see Valboån, # 12 in Dalsland.
2008.05.25 New canoe tour, please see the day trip Tre sjöar, # 21 in Ångermanland.
2008.01.29 Now map needles are added to all maps showing start/stop + coordinates.
2007.12.18 Now also with zoom-lever, satellite-/terrainmaps, scale and navigation-aid.
2007.12.14 Now Key maps from Google are added to all 476 tour presentations.
2007.11.29 The Terrängkartan's maps transformed from RUT90 to SWEREF99 standard.
2007.08.01 Visiting record in July-07 averaging 2931 unique visitors per day!
2007.07.15 See photos from a kayaktrip on some Lithuanian rivers this rainy summer.
2007.07.11 The best month so far! 87359 unique visitors = 2911 per day during June-07.
2007.06.06 New roundtrip at Mälaren-Hjälmaren , #20 in Sörmland.
2007.02.25 The trip Björkaån in Skåne translated into German by www.trottenberg.net.
2006.08.02 See photos from my paddling trips in Latvia and in Estonia.
2006.07.04 New kayak trip Vattungarna-Håkansskär, # 28 in Uppland.
2006.06.02 Again, a new tour in the inlet Åbyfjorden, #10 in Bohuslän.
2006.05.22 Now you can find all kinds of service for paddlers here.
2006.04.08 New trip, a day trip on the Utterån, #20 i Ångermanland.
2006.03.26 Two new trips, Karlsbysjöarna och Finspångsån i Östergötland.
2006.03.22 Search and choose from about 940 tour combinations.
2005.12.12 Now all 365 tour descriptions are translated to English.
2005.10.28 New short day trip in Stockholm. Ältaån in the Nacka reserve.
2005.10.27 Now the Long-distance tours page contains 936(!) trips.
2005.08.30 New archipelago trip, #23 in Stockholm, Gällnö runt.
2005.07.19 New archipelago trip, #27 in Uppland: Söderarms skärgård.
2005.07.19 New archipelago trip, #28 in Uppland: Kallskär-Fredlarna.
2005.06.23 About white water paddling and rating of rapids and navigability.
2005.06.16 Another new trip on lake Mälaren, Adelsö runt in Stockholm.
2005.05.09 A new archipelago trip, see #9 Tjörn runt in Bohuslän.
2005.04.21 New day trip in the province of Dalarna, see #27 Marnäsån.
2005.03.24 The list of canoe- and kayak rentals now sorted and updated.
2005.01.25 The Kanotguiden's pages have been done up with new menues.
2004.12.08 Now the frontpage is refreshed with a new menu and Sweden map.
2004.11.25 Now fishing links are added to about 100 tours all over Sweden.
2004.11.05 Paddle & fish. We add fishing links to the canoe trips, starting from Skåne.
2004.07.27 4 new trips, # 25-28, in the province of Värmland. Source Sten Strandberg.
2004.05.20 New 2-3 days trip, Olandsån #25 in the province of Uppland.
2004.05.06 New email: info04("at")kanotguiden.com. The old address expires 2004.05.17.
2004.03.23 Two new tours, the Värmaleden #23 and the Bergslagskanalen #24 in Värmland.
2004.03.09 Perhaps we lost some incoming mail on March 8th because of server problems.
2004.03.09 New tour among the many islands of lake Runn, see #25 in Dalarna.
2004.03.08 Data about portages, etc. have been added to the long-distance tours.
2004.03.02 New tour in the archipelago of Gothenburg, see #26 i Västergötland.
2004.02.25 New route, Torneälv IV, see #4b in Norrbotten.
2004.02.24 New route, Vindelälven nedre 2, #5b in Västerbotten.
2004.02.17 Long-distance paddling up to 577 km:s on rivers and lakes.
2004.01.29 New trip on the Ångermanälven river, nr 19 in Ångermanland.
2004.01.15 New trip in Lappland, södra, Vojmån nedre (nr 10b) to Vilhelmina town.
Attendance rate
During the year 2007 the site Kanotguiden visits did grow 36% from about 447000 to 610000 visits compared with 2006. That is on average 51000 visits per month and almost 1700 visits daily. See also monthly statistics and diagrams (in Swedish) here.Number of visits per year, 2000 - 2007
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