[2] Next to the bath in the southern end of the lake is the tallest ski slope in Stockholm together with Gömsta Äng Nature Reserve.

Angling is free on the lake and very popular in summers, while jigging attracts many people in winters when ice cover allows.

The spined loach was discovered in 2002 and occasionally salmon and brown trout find their way into the lake, the later introduced in a local brook in 1992-93.

[2] The invasive bivalve zebra mussel was first documented in Lake Mälaren in the 1920s and was confirmed in Albysjön in 2002.

In the summer common visitors include osprey, grey heron and great cormorant.