A. The Thai Pavilion at Utanede

King Chulalongkorn

King Chulalongkorn, Rama 5ht, of Siam (Thailand) is now standing as a statue inside the Thai Pavilion at Utanede.

Who could believe that his journey through our district should result in these investments in a memorial buildning at a small village?  If you want more information, please click on the History-button. 

The pavilion has been designed in Thailand, built in Sweden, except the decoration, which in made int Thailand and mounted at Utanede by Thai peoples.  

King Chulalongkorn Memorial Building, which is the official name of the building, was visited the first year (1998) by 100 000 peoples, and then by 60 000 every year. The Thai Pavilion is the best tourism attraction in the region of Jämtland outside the city Östersund. 

Celebration 

Evry year King Chulalongkorn is celebrated in Thailand and of course at Utanede July 19th, the day he traveled through. 

The pavilion is open for guided walks during the summer (May - September). Other time,please call  Ragundadalen Tourism  +46-696-68 20 90 or visit their website www.rdt.se or www.ragunda.se 

B. The Dead Falls

Only 10 km west Bispgården is The Dead Falls, one of Sweden's most unusual tourist attractions, with 30 000 visitors per year. When the latest glacier disintegrated about 9000 years ago it left its wake a large gravel ridge where the river originally ran. On the ridge developed a several miles long river with a water level 30 meters above the original water level. The river was forced  to take another path over a mountain ravine, which resulted in the origin of "Storforsen" (The Great Waterfall) as high as a ten-storied building. Salmon were unable to travel up the river and timber was destroyed. Farmers above the waterfall and forest owners on the coast tried to find the solution. They asked Magnus Huss, alias "Vildhussen" to dig a canal along the side of the fall. To his help he took water from a brook with help of a cute. On the 6th of June 1796 the spring thaw was very powerful and broke through the high gravel ridge. Within a few hours the Ragunda Lake was emptied of millions of liters of water and the river returned to its original path. Mills, barns and everything in the path where flushed away with the tidal wave. This mistake caused Sweden's largest natural disaster in modern time.

The Great Fall became silent and became the Dead Falls - a Nature Reserve

Fortunately, it happened at night and nobody was killed. "Vildhussen" drowned (or was drowned) a year later in "the new river".

The Dead Waterfall  is now a nature reserve. Here you can also see the only rotating grandstand for outdoor theatre in Sweden. The whole grandstand is rotating when the scenes are to be changed. During the 90's you could see a  theatre called "Vildhussen", which was about the the time before and during the disaster.

Long footpaths has been built to help disabled peoples. No one has managed to count all the pots that rotating stones have drilled during the 9000 years that The Dead Falls "were living".  On the picture you see a hole through a rock.

C. Trollbyn i Järkvissle

In Järkvissle you will see many of the views that the famous troll drawing artist Rolf Lidberg used in his drawings. He was born in Järkvissle and many of his motives are to be found here.

His great interest in the nature has formed the conservatory, which is built up in the beautiful village on the slope down to the Indal river.

In the Thai Valley area you will meet two different cultures, Thai Elegance and Old Swedish folklore.

Conservatory

- with nature exhibitions

Nature Paths

Play Area

Activities

- see our announcements

Summer cafe 

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