Organizing a Denmark tour
 

We are in the beginning stages of organizing a June Denmark tour. We were in Copenhagen in 1997, so we are mainly interested in the rest of the country, although we undoubtedly fly to Copenhagen. My main question is: to visit other places in Denmark, should we drive or use public transportation? I'm partial to driving because it allows me to stop anywhere at any time, but last year we used public transportation and guide services to visit Bulgaria and it worked well. Is driving in towns as restricted as in Italy with its TZLs?

I would drive. You can visit so many more places with a car.
You might be interested in the Marguerite route to at least give you an idea of what you can see.

http://www.visitdenmark.co.uk/en-gb/...royal-approval

I drive all over Copenhagen and North Sjælland and beyond and do it for the same reasons as you: you can stop anywhere you like and go to the places where the train does not go. Speed limits are strict and there are some pedestrianised areas of towns, apart from that, it is very easy to drive around Denmark.

Thanks. Next question: outside Copenhagen, should I have reservations for accommodations or can it be done at the last minute?

It depends on what you mean by "anywhere." Note that you have gotten responses from the residents so far. Where residents go and where you go are not necessarily congruent. Residents tend to go to out of way places where a car is needed. Usual places visitors go are "usually" accessible via public transits. Sort through where you are going to determine what means of transport makes sense. Outside the city, the traffic in Denmark is not bad. Definitely unlike Italy. However, they do expect you to know the traffic rules different from where you drive and enforce them strictly. The enforcement latitude you are used to at home does not apply.

<<Note that you have gotten responses from the residents so far.>>
I don't know who these residents are, but in my case, I go to the same places as tourists.

I'm not a resident!
I don't know about booking hotels in June. We go camping.
The Danish schools have from June 24th to August 8th, so hotels shouldn't be too bad. Note there is a national holiday on June 5th for Whitsun.

Put the Arhus area in you highlights of Denmark outside of Copenhagen -and the museum the famous corpse of 3rd-century BC bogman:

Grauballe Man -(Wiki) The Grauballe Man is a bog body that was uncovered in 1952 from a peat bog near the village of Grauballe in Jutland, Denmark. The body is that of a man dating from the late 3rd century BC, during the early Germanic Iron Age.

the area around the museum is neat countryside and a nice seaside -popular excursion place in summer for Danes.

Arhus is a neat old town- a former Hanseatic Port I think and Denmark's 2nd largest city:

https://www.google.com/search?q=aarh...w=1536&bih=760

The Copenhagen area has a surfeit of neat attractions - all easily done by cheap trains and buses (with day pass) but also neat to drive around:

Frederiksborg Palace-lovingly sitting on an island in a lovely lake;

Gillelje- a cute old fishing village where when I was there they were cooking up fresh caught seafood to sell.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gill...w=1536&bih=760

From Gillelje I took the inter-urban to Helsingor along a wide coast -roads paralleled the train tracks -some really isolated places for a nice picnic - then Hamlet's Castle in Helsingborg

Just south of Helsingborg is the acclaimed Louisiana Statue Park and Museum in a very bucolic setting overlooking the Sound:

https://www.google.com/search?q=loui...denmark+images

I took train to all from Copenhagen but you could easily drive to all of them in a day if in a rush.

Roskilde is very easily seen from Copenhagen by public transportation -- and, IMO, well worth a day! Unfortunately, I haven't been to other Danish locations.

<<Hamlet's Castle in Helsingborg>> You are getting Helsingoer and Helsingborg mixed up. Helsingborg is in Sweden.

Yes Helsingor (Elsinore in English) -across the strait from Helsingborg-very confusing.

A nice day out from Copenhagen by car or train is Round the Sound:

Copenhagen -Malmo- interesting if moderntown- by tunnel-bridge by train or car -

then Lund, lovely university city

then thru farmlands in Sweden redolent of Wisconsin and Minnesota- similar red barns I think I recall

then Helsingborg to take frequent car/train ferries to Helsingor

return to Copenhagen via Lousiana Statue Park.

I did easily in one day by trains and ferry. so if you want to see a bit of Sweden to boot.

I've blocked out my June/July trip to Denmark, Germany and Paris:

June 1 SFO to Copenhagen
June 3 day trip to Roskilde (Cathedral, Viking Museum, market)
June 6 afternoon outing to Ordrupgaard
June 7 day trip to Frederiksborg Slot and Louisiana Museum for Modern Art (open until 8 p.m.)
June 10 pick up car - detouring to the Mons Lint on the way to Odensee
June 12 day trip to Egeskov Slot from Odensee
June 13 Odensee to Aarhus
June 17 morning drive to Aalborg, afternoon at the North Jutland Art Museum
June 18 day trip to Skagen
June 19 Aalborg to Ribe
June 20 Ribe to Schleswig by train
June 22 pick up car and drive to Lübeck
June 24 Lübeck to Bremen via the Lüneburger Heide
June 27 Bremen to Magdeburg
June 29 Magdeburg to Berlin
July 5 Fly from Berlin to Paris
July 10 Paris to SFO

Any suggestions?

From what little I know -- sounds truly wonderful!