The Skogshagestigen boundary oak
roughly 300 to 500 yearsPedunculate Oakpin approximate
Which one is it? The big old oak beside the Skogshagestigen footpath, a short walk uphill from the grill at Delsjovagen 53.
When Gothenburg turned four oaks into nature monuments on 14 October 2025, this is the tree everybody stood under. The ceremony was held here, on the path called Skogshagestigen a few minutes from the Delsjon grill, and the four were designated as a set rather than one at a time. It has no name. Only Skarseken among the four carries one, and this oak is described by the path it stands beside, which is the ordinary fate of a gransek, a boundary oak. These trees marked the divisions between farms out here until the 1800s, doing the work a fence does, and most of them were never called anything at all. The city gives the group an age of 300 to 500 years and no individual figures. Of the four this is the one to build an afternoon around. Delsjon's woods and lakes begin a few minutes further along, so the oak stands at the seam where Orgryte's streets stop and the recreation ground starts, which is a better place to be standing under a five-hundred-year-old tree than a residential kerb. No girth, no height, no dated age. If you measure it, we will take the number.
The button above opens directions in your maps app. Bus toward Delsjon/Skatas then short walk; roughly 20 minutes from central Goteborg
The pin marks the right spot roughly, not the tree itself. It stands here, but we have not confirmed the precise position on the ground yet. Know exactly where it is?
- Species
- Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur)
- Age estimate
- roughly 300 to 500 years
- Location
- Skogshagestigen, near Delsjogrillen (Delsjovagen 53), Orgryte, Goteborg (Orgryte)
- Access
- Free, on a public path (Skogshagestigen) near the Delsjon recreation area
- Getting there
- Bus toward Delsjon/Skatas then short walk; roughly 20 minutes from central Goteborg
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