Rafting route from Ljøra to Trysilelva.

Until the mid-19th century, the large forests in Ljørdalen were allowed to remain untouched, despite the great need for timber in sawmills in both Sweden and Norway.
Ljøra was not a good rafting route to Norwegian timber buyers, and getting the timber to the buyers along the Klarälven on the Swedish side was largely impossible.
The Swedish Trysil Company with sawmills in Mölnbacka and Quartorp bought up a lot of forest in Ljørdalen in any case and in 1851 they also began to buy up land in order to build a rafting route with a canal to the Trysilelva/Klarälven. Work on this route started in 1855 and by 1858 65 men had dug away 120,000 cubic metres by hand. In order to lift the timber a total of 13 metres from Ljøra to Klarälven, they had also built two timber winches with a lift of 6.5 metres each.
The entire construction cost around 100,000 kronor, which in today's monetary value corresponds to approximately 50 million kronor.

The trail began with a 3.1 kilometer long canal from Ljøra to Nordre Flersjøen. Nordre Flersjøen is 13 meters higher than Ljøra, and to overcome this difference, two timber winches were built that were powered by hydroelectric power.
From Nordre Flersjøen to Blanksjøen runs the 1.8 kilometer long Nærå Canal and from Blanksjøen to Søndre Flersjøen a canal about 600 meters long. On this stretch, canals had to be led in an aqueduct over the Nærån. The aqueduct was built of wood and was a significant construction.
The channels are approximately 3.5 meters wide and between 2.5 and 6 meters deep.

In 1901, the Trysil Company sold its forests in the area to the Dalarne Timber Company, and thus the rafting ceased. After this, the transport route with its canals fell into disrepair.
In 1924, the possibilities of restoring the trail were investigated, but this failed.
By the end of the 1950s, the aqueduct was completely rotten and was demolished, which meant that the water from the canal flowed into the Nærån. To remedy this, a 5-meter-high earthen dam was built, forcing the Nærån water into the Støa Canal.

It was not until 1991 that restoration began, and in 1997 the canal was opened in the condition it still has today.