There is a really nice waterfall close to the road between Hede and Funäsdalen. As usual, it’s not signed from the road so you need to do your research beforehand to find out it’s there. The creek is called Rändån and the waterfall is Rändåfallet.

When you come from the direction of Hede, you will pass thru a small village called Långå. About 8 km from the T-junction in Långå (a road branches off to the right but you continue straight on the 84), the road crosses over two creeks. In between the bridges, there’s a yellow sign for ”Långå 7” for a gravel road. Look right and you’ll see a parking lot and a large information board – that’s where you park the car! And now you just hike the very easy trail 1 km through a pine forest to get to the foot of the falls. The trail is level and dry (unless it’s been raining a lot) so you don’t even need any hiking boots to manage it. But then if you want to follow the falls up (which you will definitely want to do!), you have to work a bit harder to get up the steep hill. But it’s still easy.

The first part of the falls is wide but it falls in many smaller falls instead of one big. It takes some searching but you’ll find some nice angles to shoot those smaller falls close to the right bank where the trail is. When you get past this part of the falls, the creek levels off a little bit so now there’s a series of smaller falls. About 300 m further upstream, there’s another big waterfall and that’s as far as you need to go.
As usual with waterfalls, their photo worthiness depends a lot on the volume of water running down. My personal preference is low volume because it reveals more textures and forms, so the best time to visit is late summer and autumn. However, I think that Rändån is regulated upstream from the falls so the volume of water might not always be relative to the season. You’ll get an idea of the situation already from the main road where the bridge crosses over the creek so if it looks like there’s too much or too little water, you might want to save the visit for another day.

Rändåfallet is perhaps not the most photogenic waterfall and it certainly takes some work to find the best angles. It’s a very nice place though so if you’re at all interested in waterfalls, it’s well worth the visit and you should never leave the camera in the car!
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(Edit 2010-09-18)
I paid another visit to the falls and this time walked all the way up to the top falls that I missed the last time around (even if I wrote that they’re there). It just confirms my opinion of this place, the top falls were just as nice (or even nicer) than the lower falls. The top falls are kind of in two parts, the picture shows the upper part. When you get to this viewpoint, the trail goes up very steeply but it’s not worth the climb, there’s nothing to see so only do it if you want the exercise.
There was also very little water in the creek at this time, some of the falls pictured above no longer existed. Any less water and there wouldn’t be any falls to shoot at all!
