This is the quiet half of Södermalm — the south slope, where the cliffs drop to a lake and nobody's in a hurry. Årstaviken is the water; Tantolunden is the park; the allotment cottages on the hill are the surprise. Four kilometres, almost all of it on flat shore path, with the city's working railway crossing overhead at the far end.
Come up at Zinkensdamm and drop off the plateau toward the water. Tantolunden opens below — the most relaxed lawns in Stockholm, sloping south to the lake. Walk the shore edge, but climb the hill behind it once: the koloniträdgårdar, rows of painted timber cottages and hand-kept plots from the 1910s, public to wander through.
Back down to the Årstaviken shore path — flat, right at the waterline, under Södermalm's wooded cliffs. The two Årstabroarna come into view ahead, the 1929 viaduct and its 2005 twin, trains crossing seventy-six years apart.
End at Eriksdalsbadet, the outdoor 50-metre pool from 1962, with Skanstull T-bana five minutes up the hill.
