Arktisk vinter i Danmark lige efter Nytår i januar 2026, DEL 3 – 10 dage i januar med 5-20 minus grader med 5-30 cm sne. Oplev Arresø hvor Ramløse Å løber ind i søen og besøg ved Bækkekrog med udsigt mod Arresø, Nordsjælland med tema: ” Naturen er sin egen maling og pensel på skaberværkets store lærred”.
Text and photos Erik K Abrahamsen, January 2026.
Arresø Lake where Ramløse river run into the lake:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
On 3 January 2026, Denmark received a high pressure from Arctic Regions north of Scandinavia with day and night temperatures of minus 5-20 degrees. The following 10 days it snowed with 5-30 cm snow layer with temperatures minus 5-20 degrees all over Denmark.
I live all year round in my 86 m2 summerhouse in Melby North Sealand since 2012. My neighborhood, “Præstelodden”, is dominated by summerhouses with gardens, trees and 20-30 m high hills surrounded by beautiful landscapes of forets, fields and lakes.
On Saturday 10. January 2026 I decided to experience Lake Arresø, where Ramløse river run into the lake and visit to Bækkekrog at the border of Lake Arresø with a magnificent view to the lake.
Map of Halsnæs with Lake Arresø, Kattegat Sea and Roskilde Fjord:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
At 10.30 am I drive from my home in Melby, North Sealand 6 km via Nyvej with on my left hand Asserbo- and Tisvilde plantations as neighbor to Frederiksværkvej (main road nr. 205).
I follow Frederiksværkvej in direction Ramløse 2 km and just 200 m after passing Bækkebrovej (road nr. 237) I park my car close to Ramløse River running from north to south in a pipeline under Frederiksværkvej on its way to enter Lake Arresø.
Photo from winter 2025 by Erik K Abrahamsen:
Frederiksværkvej (Main road nr. 205) og 200 m east of Bækkebrovej (road nr. 237) at right on the photo:
Ramløse River running from north to south in a pipeline under Frederiksværkvej on its way to enter Lake Arresø at left on photo.
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Ramløse River drain water from a former catchment area “Ellemosen and Holløse Bredning”, which since 2000 has been established as a big open lake south of Tibirke Hills.
Laker Arresø, Holløse Bredning and Ellemosen are a Nature Protection Area “Natura 2000” mainly to protect flora and fauna. The area is a part of “National Parc the Kings North Sealand West” with many marked walk-and bicycle routes open for public.
Lake Arresø is the biggest lake in Denmark with a size of 40 km2, depth of water 4-6 m and receive freshwater from a area of 250 km2 size of agricultural fields – at north “Sandet” and Tisvilde Hegn, at east as distance to Gribskov Forest and in south to villages Ølsted and Skævinge.
After the danish Ice Age 10.000 b. Kr. Lake Arresø was a fjord (bay) with water connection in direction north to Kattegat Sea .
Later in danish Stone Age 4-6000 b. Kr. the land raised between the fjord and Kattegat (areas called “Sandet”, Asserbo forest, Tisvilde Hegn and Melby Overdrev) and Lake Arresø arise as a freshwater lake.
Lake Arresø receive freshwater from many rivers among other Pøle River and Ramløse River, which causes floods to surrounding landscapes of fields, stretch of meadow land and forest.
In 1717-19 danish soldiers dig out a 2 km long canal from Lake Arresø to Roskilde Fjord through town Frederiksværk with a fall of 6 m. This canal with a dam regulate the depth of water in Lake Arresø for protection og overflow of its surroundings and the “Big Arresø Kanal” gave water energy and flow to a start of military industrial canon bronzegun production in Frederiksværk since 1756.
Map of Lake Arresø, Ramløse River and Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
From Frederiksværkvej I walk into a grass area and follow a path 200 m alongside Ramløse River to its entrance into Lake Arresø.
My theme on my visit to Lake Arresø is:
“Nature is her paint and brush on life’s giant canvas”.
Grass area on north side of Lake Arresø with Ramløse river at left:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View in direction south-west to Lake Arresø, where Ramløse River run into the lake:
Path 200 m alongside Ramløse River to its entrance into Lake Arresø.
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Path 200 m alongside Ramløse River to its entrance into Lake Arresø:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Path 200 m alongside Ramløse River to its entrance into Lake Arresø:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Path 200 m alongside Ramløse River to its entrance into Lake Arresø:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Path 200 m alongside Ramløse River to its entrance into Lake Arresø:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Ramløse River run into Lake Arresø:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Ramløse River run into Lake Arresø:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Ramløse River run into Lake Arresø:
View in direction west to Lake Arresø and its shore.
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
Ramløse River run into Lake Arresø:
View in direction south to Lake Arresø and its shores.
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
I now follow Ramløse River 200 m back to my car at Frederiksværkvej.
Ramløse River between Lake Arresø and Frederiksvæksvej:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
From Ramløse River I drive on Frederiksværkvej 2 km to Bækkekrog at the shore of Lake Arresø.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
View to Lake Arresø from Bækkekrog:
Click on photos and use your zoom control and you see them in full screen size.
I hope you have enjoyed my experience at Lake Arresø on its shores at Ramløse River and Bækkekrog – on my theme:
“Nature is her paint and brush on life’s giant canvas”.
Links:
Click on text
- Arctic winter in Denmark just after new year in January 2026, PART 2 – Ten days with between five and twenty degrees below zero and a foot snow. Experience “Seven Hills” Bronze Age burial mounds in Melby, North Sealand with theme: “Nature is her paint and brush on life’s giant canvas”.
- Arctic winter in Denmark new year 2026, PART 1 – 10 days with 5-20 minus degrees with 5-30 cm snow. Experience ice covered lake Arresø in North Sealand with ice boat sailing, ice kitesurfing and skating all over the lake.
Enjoy life – be happy!
Text and photos Copyright Erik K Abrahamsen 2026
All rights reserved.
Melby, North Sealand, Denmark 28. January 2026
Best Wishes
Erik