To do at Kökar

Kökar can offer nature experiences for each and everyone. Take your bicycle to one of the islands cafés, hike the marvelous Kalen or explore the outer archipelago with a boat tour to the island of Källskär.

During high season you can visit the island of Källskär daily. You can also make a private excursion for up to 48 persons.

This boat tour takes you through Kökar's beautiful outer archipelago to the island of Källskär. Here you can enjoy the breath-taking views on a guided walking tour. You will see Count Åkerhielm's architect-designed log house and the Mediterranean-inspired garden. From the island you can see the horizon and feel the sea spray from waves crushing in.

Here you can get a glimpse of life on the island from 1800-1940. The base exhibition "A different Kökar" gives you everything you need, through an extensive cellection of photographs and movies.
In the yard you can find a barn filled with boats and boat motors, many still operational. You can also take a look a Kökar's first tractor.
There is also a log house, crofter's cottage and a cowshed with acricultural implements. The museum is well worth a visit, for all ages.
The museum is open daily 15 June - 15 August 11.00-16.00.
For groups, it is possible to visit the museum outside opening hours.

Taste local apple cider at Peders Aplagård, make a bargain at the handicraft shop and at the flea markets along the way. Make a stop at the outside bar at Brudhäll to experience the mix of locals and visitors.

The church of Kökar, sited on Hamnö, is dedicated to Jesus's grandmother Anna. The current stone church was finished 1784, built on the ruins of the old monastery church. It has had the same apparence for the last 200 years, only the sacristy has been added 1876.

Hint! The area around the church has stunning views. It is the perfect setting for a sunset pic-nic.

Kökar is a bird paradise that has lured in bird watchers from near and far for years. The last years 6 new bird watching platforms has been built. The species richness makes bird watching a treat, both for amateurs and professionals.
There are a few bird watching guides resident on Kökar, contact us for more information.

Hint! The bird watching platforms are also perfect vista points.

There are good conditions for the hiking-lover. 

One of Kökar's most beautiful hiking trails is Kalen. You hike surrounded by magnificent nature, up on tall moutains and deep, lush valleys. The hiking trail also offers a history lesson, about hunters and fishermen that settled here 3000 years ago. Next to the sea guard station you can find remains of a russian coastal battery from World War I, and from finnish fortifications that were built and destroyed multiple times during 1939-1945.

The hiking trail has three different start and finish points, which gives the hikes the possibilty to chose length and directions. You can hike from a half hour up to a full day.

Hint! Make sure you have comfotable shoes and clothes, bring a pic nic and a bottle of water.

An nature experience to remember. Enjoy traditional sailing with Gunnar's wooden sailboat Tjutt-tjutt. Suites groups of 2-8 persons, or alternated with hiking up to 16 persons. Can be combined with Källskär or bird watching. With reservation for weather.

Explore Kökar with your bicycle, enjoy Åland pan cake at Peders Aplagård, visit the beautiful church and it's surroundings and take part of everything Kökar has to offer. You might see some sheep, a white-tailed eagle or a few deer from your sadle.

At the outside bar at Brudhäll you can rent a bicycle. We have 1- and 3-speed bicycles, and of course kids bicycles and helmets. Contact staff at the outside bar for availability.

Next to Peders Aplagård, 6 km from Brudhäll, you can find the 12 holes DiscGolf course. The course takes you through open fields, well tended green areas, surrounded by Peder's apple cultivation. A fun activity for the whole family or you and your friends!

Explore your hidden talents at the shooting simulator, 200 meter from Brudhäll. Price 15 €/hour and person. Group 6-10 people 70 €/hour. Available daily 12.00-22.00 through reservation.

There are many different types of animals on the island. Cows, sheep, chickens and a variety of wild animal. It often happens that you have too give way for heards of deer crossing the road or stop for playing hares. There is also plenty of different birds, hundreds of species pass through Kökar yearly.

In summer, sheep farmer Joel's sheep graze along the cultural path of Hamnö. If you come across them, you are welcome to hang out with them for a while, they love to eat leaves from the trees.

The church of Kökar, sited on Hamnö, is dedicated to Jesus's grandmother Anna. The current stone church was finished 1784, built on the ruins of the old monastery church. It has had the same apparence for the last 200 years, only the sacristy has been added 1876.

Hint! The area around the church has stunning views. It is the perfect setting for a sunset pic-nic.

At the foot of Otterböte mountain you can find a unique seal hunter settlement from the younger bronze age. There are remains of nine round huts, multiple waste heaps and a small well.

You can reach Otterböte via a 600 meter long path from Hamnövägen.

The settlement was used by hunters from the south, they came up north in the spring time to hunt seal. We know this thanks to extensive finds of clay shards found on multiple digs of the area. The clay comes from the southern coastline of the Baltic sea, northern Poland and Bornholm. The clay vessels also have imprints of different plants, which tells us that they have been made in an agricultural setting.

Did you know that Otterböte is one of the Nordic countrys most known settlement from the bronze age?