• Wild deer, not tame ones, so keep your distance, never feed them, and keep dogs on a short leash
• Winter morning feedings put out corn, beets and hay at feeding spots, a good chance to watch the herds from a distance
• Bakken amusement park sits at the park's edge, the world's oldest and free to enter, open from late March to mid-September, in the fall break and on Christmas weekends

Dyrehaven is a former royal hunting forest, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, where about 300 red deer and 1,600 fallow deer roam free. Herds of several hundred graze the open Eremitage plain below a hilltop hunting lodge.

Cars are banned, so the wide roads suit strollers and bikes. In the hilly Ulvedalene, kids climb inside a hollow oak worn smooth by generations of play.