Here in the Valle area we are not modest – the area is marketed as “Vallevägen - the world's most beautiful road”. Roughly 20 small business owners have joined forces to highlight the area's assets and resources. This involves both artists, producers, traders and B&B’s. The nature in the area is characterized by the kame landscape with its rolling hills. This type of landscape is considered unique in the world - it was formed when the inland ice retreated. There are over 60 km of hiking trails, and the area is known for all the tens of thousands cherry trees that blossom here during May.
Högsböla ängar Nature Reserve is a remnant of the large wooded meadows that were found in Berg in the olden days and were visited by Linnæus in the 1700s. In the upper parts there is an old wooded meadow with a large number of thick-growth pollarded elms and ash trees. The lower parts consist of pastures from which you have a lovely view towards Lake Lången and Kinnekulle mountain. The meadows are worth a visit at any time of year, but they are in their full glory in spring and summer.
Restoration of the meadows has been carried out in stages through re-pollarding of a large number of trees, and by brush clearance in overgrown parts. On the meadows there are several gigantic oaks, some of which bear traces of pollarding. In the brush you can see hazel, hawthorn and rosehip. The flora is rich and varied with large numbers of, for example, cowslip, early purple orchid, dropwort, ramson, fairy flax and viper's-grass. In a clump of trees, ivy snakes up the trunks. Characteristic birds include hawfinch, European goldfinch and European green woodpecker. Högsböla has been protected as a nature reserve since 1968 and was extended in 1990.
You can reach the meadows from a parking lot just north of Berg rectory. The walking trail Billingeleden leads through area and to ensure that everyone can enjoy the area, the entrance has been adapted for people in wheelchairs, and a smooth entrance route has been constructed. It makes it possible for wheelchair users to get all the way to the wooded meadow.
The meadow has been harvested through haymaking and pollarding to collect winter fodder for livestock. There are several biotopes. Oak, ash and elm are common tree species. On wetter meadowlands we find carpets of ramson and lesser celandine. Drier areas host liverleaf, marsh marigold, cowslip and early purple orchid.
The birds that nest in the old hollow trees include woodpeckers, wryneck, redstart and flycatcher. The trail to the meadow passes along a cattle track, a farm road between stone walls where cattle was driven from the village to pasture.