Högfors is not a lot of things. Most people would say that Högfors is nothing. A right turn or an exit off the main road. Most people driving along that main road, the one between Örebro and Ludvika, will not even know that there passing Högfors, if Högfors isn’t the name of a few of the trees in the vast forest. 

Högfors is located between Kopparberg and Grängesberg. In the middle of the woods. It isn’t more than one street of houses. Depicted here below, Högfors high street; Tjärnvägen (from North to South):

Even though Högfors now is a sleepy street it used to flourish. Here’s a picture of the mansion where the Patron used to live:

It’s a bit run down and I have no illusions that it will ever look like it did during its glory days. None the less, it’s a magnificent building that takes hold of ones imagination.

There are other old buildings here. This one is now a museum of sorts:

I’ve mentioned before that Högfors means High River and in walking the Boo I found a river in the woods. Now I don’t know if this is the river in the name. This could be a man made river. Made by the company in which owns the forest. Still, it’s a river.

Another evidence that Högfors ones or maybe twice was a vibrant community is the fact that there is a school here. It’s no longer in use and was sold a while back to an artist. In the foreground to the left there is the old School and in the background the new, or newer, school.

That’s it for the winter post. I’ll try to give you a summer post including pictures of the beach and the small lake.