Bäsna

Bäsna is a town with origins in the Middle Ages in Gagnef municipality in Dalarna, with 660 inhabitants. The forest lies right next to the buildings, water and field are a couple of minutes' walk away, and Dalarna Älvcamping is within three kilometres.

Everyday life depends on the neighbouring towns. The nearest grocery shop is a bike or car ride away for a typical property, and the neighbouring town Djurås, with just over two thousand inhabitants, is within walking distance but not close. In Bäsna there are, on the other hand, a restaurant, Bäsna handel och krog, a café and a garden, Bäsna Trädgård, a community hall, a car workshop, Bertils Bilservice, and a school museum. The restaurant and the café are within walking distance but not close for a typical property. The school, Djurmoskolan, is within walking distance but not close for most people, and the sports halls, Proppens Arena and Göte Hed Arena, are about as far. The train station is a bike or car ride away.

By car it takes about a quarter of an hour to the municipality's main town and about three and a half hours to Stockholm.

In the area around the town just over one in four is under twenty and just over a fifth is over sixty-five, a picture rich in children. Bäsna suits families with children who want to live rurally with an inn and a community hall in the town and a car to the shop. It suits less well someone who wants a shop and a train within walking distance.