Few people would think of comparing Granberget with Las Vegas or Orlando.
There are no theme parks, casinos or restaurants here. We have five kilometres of gravel road to the postbox and almost ten kilometres to the next person. Come here in the middle of winter and you will mostly see forest, snow and silence.
It might look as though there is nothing to do.
But the opposite is almost true.
The difference is that you have to create the experiences yourself. And no time of year makes that clearer than vårvinter—the fifth season between winter and spring.
It begins while winter still has a firm hold on the landscape. There may be a metre of snow on the ground. The lakes are still frozen, and the nights can be truly cold.
But something has changed.
The light has returned.
The days grow longer quickly, and the sun begins to warm us with a strength that feels almost impossible after the dark winter. Snow that can restrict movement during parts of winter now becomes a route out into the landscape. On snowmobiles, we can travel long distances through the forest and across frozen lakes.
For us, vårvinter is one of the busiest times of the year.
When the weather is right, we hitch the sled to the snowmobile. It is a specially built snowmobile sled, made, rather amusingly, by the same person who supplies the fireplaces for our domes. We pack a bag of firewood, fishing gear, food and our Firebox—a small stainless-steel fire pit that lets us make a safe, reliable fire almost wherever we stop. We can set a Muurikka pan over the flames and cook outdoors.
Then we set off.
Sometimes we have a destination in mind, perhaps a lake where we want to ice fish for trout or Arctic char. Other times, the journey matters just as much. We follow a snowmobile trail, cross a lake, find a sunny slope and decide that this is where we will have lunch.
We drill holes in the ice, light a fire in the snow and cook over the flames.
And then we sit there.
Some days the sun is so warm that we take off our jackets and jumpers. You can sit bare-chested and feel the sun on your skin while a metre of snow still lies beneath your feet.
There is something almost contradictory about vårvinter. Everything we love about winter remains, but the darkness is gone and warmth is returning. Winter and spring exist at the same time.
Perhaps that is why we love this time so much. It also says something about life at Granberget.
Nobody has prepared the experience for us. There is no activity to book and no ready-made attraction. We pack the firewood and food, hitch up the sled, start the snowmobile and head out.
And then something happens to this seemingly empty place.
It becomes almost inexhaustible: trails, waters, places, days, adventures and experiences to share.
So no, Granberget is not Las Vegas.
It is something else entirely.
There are no ready-made attractions here. Just a whole world of possibilities—if you create the adventure yourself.
During the summer of 2026, we selected three pilot partners from almost 100 applications from Sweden and abroad. The pilot year has now begun with installations in Hemavan, Åre and Borgafjäll.
Under sommaren 2026 valde vi ut tre pilotkunder bland närmare 100 intresseanmälningar från Sverige och andra länder. Pilotåret har nu inletts med installationer i Hemavan, Åre och Borgafjäll.
Tillsammans med våra pilotkunder kommer vi under det kommande året att vidareutveckla varje del av Scandinavian Domes – från materialval och hantverk till logistik, installation och långsiktig hållbarhet – inför den bredare marknadslanseringen 2027.