Skuleskogen National Park

Skuleskogens nationalpark, (The Skule Forest National Park) is a Swedish national park in Västernorrland County, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, in northern Sweden. It covers 30.62 km2, constituting the eastern part of the Forest of Skule.

The park is characterized by a very rough topology with many rocky peaks, of which the highest is Slåttdalsberget, 280 m in altitude, rising directly from the sea. The topography is also marked by the presence of deep crevasses and caves. This particular topology can be found throughout the entire High Coast (Höga kusten), a region of Sweden so named because it constitutes the highest section of the coast of the Baltic Sea. This region is principally known as a favored site for the observation of the phenomenon of post-glacial rebound. Most of the region was under the sea less than 10,000 years ago, after the ice sheet that blanketed it melted. But thanks to the melting of this mass of ice that had been pressing down upon it, the ground is rising year by year, at a current speed of 8 mm per year.

This geological and biological richness led to the creation of a national park in 1984, followed by the designation of the park with the rest of the High Coast in 2000 in the UNESCO World Heritage List.