Where to stay in Timrå
Most visitors stay in the town centre, where a small number of hotels and guesthouses sit within an easy walk of the shops, the arena, and Timrå kyrka. The centre suits travellers who want services close at hand and a short step to the hockey arena and the bay. Beds are few.
Many who come for business or events base themselves in nearby Sundsvall, a short drive to the south, where the larger choice of hotels in the stone centre fills the gap, with quick road and rail links back up to Timrå and the airport. Along the coast and the Indalsälven delta, campsites and cottages open through the warm months for drivers and summer visitors who want the shore and the river. Book ahead around big matches.
The hockey fixtures and the airport traffic together press on the modest local stock of beds at the busiest times.
About Timrå
What is Timrå known for?
Timrå is a small industrial town by the Indalsälven delta. It lies on the Baltic coast just north of Sundsvall, close to the river mouth where forests, mills, and the bay meet. The town is known across Sweden for ice hockey, the home of Timrå IK.
It also shares the region's main airport, Sundsvall-Timrå, and its life has long turned on the sawmills and pulp works that grew along the river and the shore.
What are the main landmarks in Timrå?
Timrå kyrka stands at the heart of the town. This old parish church gathers the district as it has for generations, with the smaller Sörberge gravkapell and the wooden Vivstavarvs kapell nearby among the surrounding villages and the old mill settlements along the river. Crowds fill the hockey arena.
To the north the Indalsälven delta spreads in a broad sweep of channels, sandbanks, and reed beds where the river meets the Baltic, while the bay, the forests, and the old industrial waterfront fill out the rest. River and sea frame the town.
What is the history of Timrå?
The parish is an old one. Settlement grew on the coast near the mouth of the Indalsälven, where farms gathered on the riverbanks and the church drew the scattered district together long before any town took shape on the shore. The river and the bay carried goods toward the wider Baltic trade.
Timber made the modern town. From the nineteenth century the sawmills and shipyards along the river and the coast turned this stretch of shore into a busy industrial district, and settlements such as Vivstavarv grew up around the works as the forests of the interior were cut and shipped. The mills drew workers and built communities.
Through the twentieth century pulp and paper, and later the airport shared with Sundsvall, kept the area turning, and Timrå became the seat of its own municipality, its name carried far by the hockey club that made the town known across the country.
Where is Timrå?
Timrå lies in the south-eastern part of Västernorrland County, on the Baltic coast just north of Sundsvall, near the broad delta where the Indalsälven empties into the sea. The town spreads along the low coastal ground between forested hills and the bay, with the river's channels and sandbanks reaching out to the north and the open water to the east. Its setting is coastal and low.
Both the E4 and the main east-coast railway run through the district, tying Timrå to Sundsvall in the south and to Härnösand and the north.
What is the climate of Timrå?
Timrå has a cold coastal climate. Winters are long and snowy, with hard frost over the bay and the delta and a steady snow cover that settles across the district through the dark months of the year. Summers are short and mild.
The long northern daylight brings bright, pleasant weeks when the shore and the river delta draw walkers and bathers, and the bay holds whatever warmth the season gives. The Baltic softens the cold against the deeper chill of the interior.
How do you get to Timrå?
The region's main airport sits here. Sundsvall-Timrå Airport lies just outside the town, giving Timrå the easiest air links of the district, while the E4 and the main east-coast railway run close by along the shore. Trains and buses stop nearby.
Drivers come on the coastal road from Sundsvall in the south and from Härnösand to the north, and regional routes tie the town to the inland valleys and the neighbouring places of Medelpad and Ångermanland.