Where to stay in Ed
Most visitors stay in or near the centre of Ed, where a hotel and small guesthouses sit within reach of the shops, the station, and Dals-Eds kyrka. The centre suits travellers who want a bed by the lake and the railway, an easy base for fishing and walking out across the border country. It works for first-timers.
Beds are few in this small inland town, and lodgings fill across the warmer weeks when anglers and paddlers come for the lakes. Beyond the centre the wilderness takes over. Cabins, campsites, and self-catering cottages stand along the shores of Stora Le and through the surrounding forest, giving drivers and outdoor travellers a quiet setting close to the water and the woods.
Book ahead for summer. Many who come to fish or paddle the long lake base themselves in these lakeside cabins and drive into Ed for supplies and the centre of the district.
About Ed
What is Ed known for?
Ed is known for its lakes and forest. The town stands by the long water of Stora Le in the wooded country of northern Dalsland, close to the border with Norway and surrounded by the kind of wilderness that draws anglers, paddlers, and walkers. Hunting country lies all around.
The little centre serves the scattered farms and villages of the district, and the lake, the woods, and the quiet border setting give this small inland town its character.
What are the main landmarks in Ed?
Dals-Eds kyrka stands at the centre of the town, the parish church serving the district by the lake. The water draws the eye. Stora Le stretches long and narrow north toward the border, a lake for fishing and paddling, while the forests, the trails, and the open shores of the surrounding country form the wider draw of the place, a wilderness setting on the edge of Norway in the northern reach of the province.
What is the history of Ed?
Ed grew as a parish on the lake near the border. The medieval church and the scattered farms of the district point to settlement here long before the modern centre took shape, a quiet farming and forest country on the frontier with Norway through the early centuries. The border shaped its story.
Soldiers, pedlars, and cross-frontier trade passed this way through the long centuries when the line between the two kingdoms was disputed. The railway made the modern town. When the line through Dalsland reached the district in the later nineteenth century, Ed drew trade, services, and small industry to the station by the lake, growing from a border parish into the centre of its own municipality.
The forests stayed close around. Dals-Eds kyrka still rises above the small centre, tying the modern lakeside town to the older parish that gathered the farms and villages of the border country beside Stora Le.
Where is Ed?
Ed lies in the northern part of Västra Götaland County, set by the lake Stora Le in the forest country of Dalsland near the Norwegian border in western Sweden. The land is a country of long narrow lakes, low ridges, and deep woodland, the town gathered on the shore where the road and the railway meet the water. Forest covers most of the district.
The long lake reaches north toward the frontier, and the woods and waters of the province roll away unbroken around the town.
What is the climate of Ed?
Ed has a cool temperate climate with a clear inland edge. Winters are cold and snowy, the lake freezing over and the border forest lying well away from the moderating reach of the western sea through the dark months of the year. Summers are mild and green.
Long northern daylight draws the evenings out late around midsummer, the warmest season and the busiest weeks for fishing and paddling on the long lake by the town. Rain and snow fall across the seasons here.
How do you get to Ed?
Ed sits on the railway through northern Dalsland near the Norwegian border, reached by rail and road. Trains stop here on the line between Göteborg and the frontier, and country roads run to the town through the forest from the wider province. The way in follows the lakes.
The nearest large airport lies far south at Göteborg, so most visitors arrive by train or by car, the journey crossing the woods and waters of the northern county to reach the border town.