About Danska Fall
Danska Fall (I’ve also seen it called Danska Fallen and Danska Fallet) turned out to be the last waterfall we visited on our epic 2019 Scandinavian Trip.
It turned out to sit in one of Halland County’s most visited nature reserves.
This waterfall ran on the Assman River, which was said to have a cumulative drop of 36m from its source to the bottom of its drop.
However, I’m more apt to believe that it was more like 10-15m if you’re only concerned about just the main drops of the waterfalls.
In any case, I was fascinated by the reason why the waterfall got its name as Danska meant “Danish” in the Swedish language.
I had read after the fact that during the Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark in the late 1670s, a defeated Danish army fled upstream of the Fylleån River.
The Swedes eventually chased this army onto a poorly-built bridge, where it collapsed and drowned several of the Danish army members over the waterfall.
So while the history hinted at the possible torrent that Danska Fall could possess, I’d imagine this would be the case during high snowmelt periods in the late Spring and early Summer.
Since we showed up at the very end of July, the falls took on a more segmented appearance.
The Danska Fall Trail
As for experiencing the falls, we went on a short 1km trail (2km round trip) that was gently climbing and well-signed.
Even though the trail was unpaved, it was suitable for strollers in good weather.
There were trail junctions where we could have extended the hike in to a longer loop of roughly 4.6km in total, but we only did the shorter trail for the just the waterfall.
In the first 200m of the trail, we walked past a mostly concealed lake where private cabins and hidden shore spots allowed for those in the know to enjoy the lake better.
We also encountered one of the trail junctions here, but we kept straight ahead to remain on the shorter trail to the falls.
Beyond the trail junction, we eventually ascended to an open pasture where we saw cows grazing and we even saw some kind of a composting toilet.
Roughly 800m from the trail junction, we eventually get past the pasture and returned to the forest where we walked along the viewing area of Danska Fall as well as checked out the view from its brink.
When all was said and done, we had spent an hour away from the car.
However, the humidity really crept up on us at this waterfall so we were still a hot and sticky mess when we returned to the car.
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Danska Fall was near the city and municipality of Halmstad in Halland County, Sweden. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, you may want to try the Halmstad Tourist Center website.
Danska Fall was located just south of Simlångsdalen, which was east of the city of Halmstad (which was the center of the municipality).
From the E20 and Route 25 junction in the east end of Halmstad, we drove east on the Route 25 for about 15km (towards Simlångsdalen) before turning right onto a local road (signed for “Naturreservat Danska Fall” or Tönnersjö).
We then followed this road for about 550m before turning left onto another local road (another naturreservat sign pointed in this direction here).
Finally, we followed this local road for about 700m to the signposted turnoff and car park on the left for Danska Fall.
Overall, this drive took us about 15 minutes.
For geographic context, Simlångsdalen was 19km (under 30 minutes drive) east of Halmstad, 55km (over 30 minutes drive) west of Ljungby, 150km (about 90 minutes drive) north of Malmö, 153km (over 90 minutes drive) south of Gothenburg, 148km (over 2 hours drive) northwest of Kristianstad, 164km (under 2 hours drive) south of Jönköping, 131km (over 2 hours drive with a ferry crossing) northeast of Hillerød, 194km (about 2 hours drive) north of Copenhagen, Denmark, and 482km (over 4.5 hours drive) southwest of Stockholm.
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Video pretty much covering every viewing angle for the various segments of the falls
Upstream to downstream sweep from right around the brink of the falls
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