Visit Loekken / Løkken

Løkken town, which from the early morning to the small hours is alive with /Provence?s, is an active and nuanced shopping experience. Many of the local shops are open every day all year round, some of them until late in the evening – and there’s plenty to choose from. 

From Easter to the middle of October the High Street is for pedestrians only and you'll find a range of activities for all the family.

In Løkken you’ll also find excellent sports facilities and a relaxed atmosphere with cafés, restaurants, shops, artist’s workshops and a little sweet shop where you can see boiled sweets being made the old-fashioned way. When the west wind blows you can take advantage of the many indoor activities on offer – or experience another side of the beach, you'll find there's powerkiting, surfing and windsurfing.

A visit to Løkken Museum and The Coastal Fishing Museum is an ideal way of becoming acquainted with the town’s history.

 Along the streets and promenades and amongst the dunes you’ll find traces of coastal fishing all over the place.

Løkken has a wealth of experiences for all ages. During the summer months there are concerts, flea markets, antique markets, beach aerobics, competitions and guided tours of the town and dunes. On Løkken Beach you’ll still find fishing cutters being drawn up onto the beach after a trip out to sea, and if you want to you can take some of their catch home with you.

After the first houses were built in Løkken in 1678 the town grew to become the most important trading port for traffic between Vendsyssel and the south of Norway, with grain, butter and meat going one way and timber and iron the other. Warehouses from those days are still extant although the trade which gave rise to them dwindled out around 1900.

 Løkken became an important centre for fishing, the third largest on the west coast. In 1950 up to 50 boats were beached on the shore when the fishermen brought their catch home. There aren’t many fishermen left today but you can still see the breakwater, signal mast, tar pit and lifeboat station, (now the coastal fishing museum).

The first holidayers started to visit towards the end of the 19th Century and Løkken became a popular resort. Løkken remains a popular holiday destination with hotels, campsites and holiday cottages.

Public Transport.
Get in
Passengers traveling from other parts of Denmark can reach Loekken / Løkken by train, bus or airplane to Aalborg.  The journey time by  bus from Aalborg, the nearest large town to the south, is approx. between 1 hr 10 mins - 1 hr 45 mins. (40 minutes in car). From Aalborg Airport to Frederikshavn station is the journey time aprox. 1.5 hour by bus.

By Train
The nearest train station is located in Hjørring and this connects you to pretty much all of Denmark. Frederikshavn is on the Hjørring, Aalborg, Aarhus, Odense, Roskilde, Copenhagen, Line. It takes approximately 5 hours 50 minnuts to reach Copenhagen.

By Boat
Frederikshavn can be reached by ferry from Norway (Oslo) and Sweden (Gothenburg) and connects Læsø Island to Jutland.
Stena Line operates the route Gothenburg - Frederikshavn which takes 2 hours with Stena Line Express and 3 hours 15 min. with Stena Danica/Jutlandica and the route Oslo - Frederikshavn which takes 12 hours.
Læsø Line operates the route Læsø - Frederikshavn which takes 90 min.  

Bus from Frederikshavn to Loekken takes approximately 1 hours.  from Hjørring to Loekken takes approximately 40 min.