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Mikkelborg

Mikkelborg is a seaside locality in Hørsholm Municipality, located between Rungsted to the south and Kokkedal to the north, some 20 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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The place

Mikkelborg is a seaside locality in Hørsholm Municipality, located between Rungsted to the south and Kokkedal to the north, some 20 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Mikkelborg Strandpark is a public park and beach. Mikkelgård, a listed house from 1916 located inside the park, is now operated as a restaurant.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mikkelborg

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rungstedlund

    Rungstedlund, also known as the Karen Blixen Museum, is a country house in Rungsted on the Øresund coast just north of Copenhagen, Denmark, notable for its association with the author Karen Blixen, who lived there for most of her life. She was born on the estate in 1885, and returned there after her years in Kenya, chronicled in her 1937 book Out of Africa, to do most of her writings.

    3.4 km · mansion in Denmark, home to the Karen Blixen Museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hirschholm Palace

    Hirschholm Palace, also known as Hørsholm Palace, was a royal palace located in present-day Hørsholm municipality just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 1740s and, one of the finest buildings of its time, it became known as the "Versailles of the North".

    4.2 km · building in Hørsholm, Denmark · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kokkedal hotel

    Kokkedal Slot is a former country house located in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now operated as a 62-room, high-end hotel under the name Kokkedal Slot Copenhagen to distinguish it from Kokkedal Slot in North Jutland.

    1 km · vacation house in northeast Zealand, Denmark · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Nivaagaard

    Nivaagaard is a historic property in Nivå in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now home to an art gallery and the park is open to the public.

    2 km · Danish building now housing Nivaagaard museum · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sophienberg

    Sophienberg is a former royal summer retreat located on the Coast Road in Rungsted, Hørsholm Municipality, some 20 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now operated as a venue for meetings and smaller conferences.

    1.4 km · building in Rungsted, Denmark · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hørsholm Local History Museum

    Hørsholm Local History Museum is a local history museum in Hørsholm, Denmark.

    4.2 km · building in Denmark · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fuglsangshus

    Fuglsangshus, formerly known as Slotsgartnerens, is a listed, 18th-century house situated on the old main street in Hørsholm, Denmark. It is now operated as an exhibition space by Hørsholm Municipality in collaboration with local associations.

    4.2 km · building in Hørsholm Municipality, Denmark · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    DTU Science Park

    DTU Science Park is a science park in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The park is administratively part of the Technical University of Denmark in Kongens Lyngby, and it also comprise premises at DTU's main campus there.

    4.6 km · operator of science parks in Hørsholm and Lyngby, part of the Technical University of Denmark · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Christiansgave

    Christiansgave is a mansion in Rungsted, Hørsholm Municipalit, situated on the Øresund coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The house was constructed for the businessman Christian Wilhelm Messerschmidt in 1918 to designs by the architect Carl Brummer.

    4.8 km · mansion in Rungsted · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Strandbjerg

    Strandbjerg, also known as Villa Standbjerg, is a mansion in Rungsted, Hørsholm Municipality, situated on the Øresund coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

    2.3 km · mansion in Rungsted · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Mikkelborg

Airports
Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH), 34 km · Malmö Sturup (MMX), 68 km · Aarhus (AAR), 126 km
Stations
Rungsted Kyst Station, 3.3 km · Humlebæk station, 5.9 km · Kokkedal station, 1.5 km · Nivå Station, 2.7 km
  • Aarhus → Mikkelborg
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · kr85–115
  • Odense → Mikkelborg
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · kr130–175
  • Aalborg → Mikkelborg
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mikkelborg

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mikkelborg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAll ferries arrive at and depart from Bäckviken harbour, on the east side of the island.
  • Get aroundAn infrequent bus (matching the ferry timetable) runs between the two ends of the island.
  • Go nextUnless you have your own boat, your next destination will be by ferry, to Landskrona in Sweden or to Copenhagen or Helsingør in Denmark.

From Wikivoyage: Ven, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    18 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    567 km
  3. 03
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    638 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    685 km
  5. 05
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    720 km

If you know how people move in Mikkelborg – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Mikkelborg

Mikkelborg is 26 km from Copenhagen, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.