STF Hostel in Jokkmokk

In our community there are many tracks from the past. For example, in Vuollerim and Porjus. Furthermore, there is Ájtte, Swedish alpine and Sami museum.

Missing communities

In the beginning of 1900s Sweden had realised that electricity could come from hydroelectric dams. So for a few decades dams were built as well as villiges. People moved to new locations and after a few years when the dams were completed the villages vanished and people moved on to the next dam. You can find several such places around Jokkmokk, in which today we can only imagine that it used to live several thousand of people there. In some of this places they have cut down bushes and trees to highlight how the community looked like.

Harsprångets society, just outside Porjus, With signs that tells you what this looked like between 1945 - 1979

Messaure society, society was built around 1957 and remained until 1980, now it's gone and there are only signs to tell you what it looked like.

Ájtte, Swedish alpine and Sami museum www.ajtte.com

Vuollerim 6000, archaeological museum in Vuollerim www.vuollerim6000.se

Hembygdsgården in Vuollerim, see how they lived before, open in summer www.vuollerim.se

Pionjärverket in the wilderness, Sweden's first power plant which was built in 1910-1915.

Porjus kraftstation with Porjus expo and Kraftbyggarland.

Outdoor to see and do

Around Jokkmokk there are some unusual things to watch, often you need your own car to reach them or a bicycle.

Easy Elsie, crashed British bomber outside Porjus.

Arctic Circle, crossed both on the road 45, south of Jokkmokk and road 97 against Luleå

Storknabben, Lookout Mountain in Jokkmokk, perfect to see the midnight sun,

Uvssat Davás - The doors west, Akkats kraftstation have been painted by artists Bengt Lindstrom and Lars Pirak

Jokkmokk fjällträdgård, a growing part of Ájtte

Jokkmokk jakt och fiske, offers fishing around the municipality, also rents out cabins, we sell their fishing license www.jaktfiske.jokkmokk.com

Jokkmokk churches, the new church from 1889 and old Sami Church, originally from 1753 but burned down completely in 1972 and re-opened in 1976.