Thy National Park

Denmark's first national park, established in 2008 along the North Sea coast of northwestern Jutland, protects shifting sand dunes, heath moorlands, coastal lakes, and plantation forests. The western shoreline faces the full force of the North Sea, with powerful surf breaking on wide beach ridges backed by dunes that migrate inland at a measurable rate. The park is important for nesting birds including avocet, bittern, and the reintroduced white-tailed eagle.