Editing Rakkestad (section)

== Nature ==
Rakkestad's large areas of rolling, wooded hills offer excellent year round recreational and leisure opportunities. There are marked forest paths for [[hiking]] and [[cross-country skiing]].

=== Hunting ===
Rakkestad municipality offers [[Game (food)|small game]] [[hunting]] as well as [[roe deer]] hunting in the municipal forests, which cover about {{convert|18|km2|mi2|0}}. There are possibilities for farm lodging as well as cabin lodging.

=== Fishing ===
Landowners, angling clubs, and others put much work into cultivating waters and lakes to ensure good [[fishing]]. Most lakes are limed each year, with support from the government. [[Spawn (biology)#Fry|Fry]] and fingerlings are also re-stocked annually. Where the cultivation is carried out with governmental funding, the fishing shall be available for all, either by free fishing or through open information about fishing licence and opportunities.

In Rakkestad more than 20 species of freshwater fish are registered. Many of these species lives in the Rakkestad River. The river [[meander]]s its way along, mainly through farmland, providing excellent river fishing for [[Esox|pike]], [[Rutilus|roach]], and [[perch]].

Rakkestad is bordered to the west by River [[Glomma]], Norway's largest river. At Sutern in Os there is an outdoor recreation area equipped with toilet, open shelters, and areas for making a campfire. You can fish for 26 different species from a small jetty or from land along the river. Fishing licence for the area can be obtained fróm self-service boxes along the river.

In the Rakkestad Hills a number of small lakes offer the angler to fish in sheltered solitude. Although the pursuit of the large trout draws a number of anglers to the lakes, you will only occasionally happen to meet fellow anglers.

Most lakes can be reached by a short walk from the car. Some of the forest roads are private and one has to pay a small fee in a self-service box, normally about [[Norwegian krone|NOK]] 20. Fishing licences can be obtained in the same place. Normal price for the fishing licence is about NOK 40 for 24 hours or NOK 200 for a year.