Rambling at Skamling
At Skamlingsbanken, besides looking at the memorials raised on the hill itself, you can go rambling for 5 km in the East Jutland landscape. On the way the route is marked with a blue rambler. The route is not suited for walking-impaired and people in wheelchairs.
Starting from the parking space on the hill, you follow the trail which leads to the beach. Beneath the restaurant the trail goes into the forrest and takes you to the memorial for the North Schleswig resistence people, which fell during the occupation of Denmark 1940-45. The memorial is built as a bell frame, and during the summer half you can hear the sound of the chimes at certain hours. Behind the bell frame the trail continues east through the beech wood. After a copule of hundred metres the trails splits and you walk straight ahead towards the beach at Binderup Strand, or you can turn right and cross a small brook via a footbridge.
The trail takes you across the footbridge, out of the wood and along a field boundary. Along this traeil you have an incredibly beautiful view of the Little Belt along this path. Halfway down the stairs on the hill you can see a badgers' burrow on your right. Having crossed another footbridge, you reach an old charming sunken road. If you turn right here, you come to the village Grønninghoved, while the trail to the left takes you to the beach.
The sunken road soon turns into a wide trail, but the hedges are still dense along the path, and you may hear one or more of our songbirds - for example the blackcap or the grasshopper warbler and at dusk on a summer night a nightingale.
The trails leads into a summer cottage area. From the edge of the wood the view 50 metres above sea level is still worth a break. In clear weather you can clearly see the pylons of the Little Belt Bridge to the north and on the horizon you see the coast of Funen. Here you can choose to take a detour from the trail and turn to the right into the forest at Grønninghoved Strand, where there are long barrows from the neolithic period. The trail continues along the marked road to the beach Grønninghoved Strand.
Follow the signs of the rambler through the summer cottage area and along the beach. Just after the outlet of the Odderbækken a sign point towards Skamlingsbanken. Here the trail leaves the coast, first along an open grass field and then into the beech wood, which at the lower parts still shows damages from the storm of 1999. The trail continues upwards to the starting point at the bell tower and Skamlingsbanken.