Central Norway Region Tourism and Vacation

Central Norway - the land of contrasts

The contrasts are impressive - it is only a few kilometres from the open coast to the mountains, with high plains and snowy peaks. Inland there are attractive green valleys and countryside with fertile farmland, some of the best in Norway.

Oppdal

This charming mountain settlement is said to be Norway's largest alpine ski centre, but few know that this is also the place to experience magnificent scenery and other natural attractions in the summer. Few places have such beauty, majestic mountains, luscious valleys and rich flora and fauna. This is also a place you might meet a wild musk ox.

Sverresborg – Trøndelag Folk Museum

Travel back in time to the excitement of Norway's past at Trondheim's most popular museum.

Open-air museum for village and town

Defending Trøndelag - from Viking times to the Second World War

Throughout the ages, Trøndelag has been of great military significance. You can live through a thousand years of history as you visit the military monuments of central Norway.

Hegra Fort - protecting the Norwegian border

National Museum of Decorative Arts (Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum)

National Museum of Decorative Arts Collection

With a rich collection of 18th century silver, Japanese handicrafts and modern handicrafts and design, varying exhibitions and the unique permanent exhibition. The historical collection includes furniture, silver, glass and textile design from the 16th century up until today. Treasures from all over Europe can be viewed here.

Trondheim art gallery and Museum

The Art Gallery is attractively placed close to Nidaros Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace and has Norway's third largest collection of pictorial art, totaling more than 2700 items. Most of the collection consists of Norwegian pictorial art from the mid 18th century to the present day. There is also the largest collection of Danish pictorial art in Scandinavia outside Denmark.

Ørland - where nature creates works of art

Artists have always tried to capture the incredible interplay between the sea, the sky and sunlight at Ørland. Few have succeeded. For in the flat, vigorous landscape surrounded by the sea on three sides and with the wide vault of heaven where the clouds never seem to rest, nature itself is the artist that is constantly creating new paintings.

Rissa - with the wind in your sails

Do you really want to test your seamanship? Feel a rough rope in your hands, learn to tie sailors' knots and set your sails at sea and taste the salt spray? Rissa is the place for you. This is where you can sail a «fembøringen», a clinker-built boat that has been in use for more than a thousand years and is one of the fastest traditional boats anywhere along the coast of Norway.

Beautiful Bjugn

Bjugn is famous for its beautiful and varied nature with idyllic skerries and the ocean just off the coast. You can fish in the sea, fjords, rivers and lakes and gather mushrooms and berries. Here you find many historical places to visit and the area also offers several different activities such as a rollerskating rink and bowling.

Innherred Includes Levanger, Verdal, Inderøy and Steinkjer

Rolling fields with pink bands of rosebay willow herbs, well-tended farms with impressive farm buildings fringe the green slopes down to the wide Trondheim Fjord, one of the most fertile areas in the country, and rightly termed the garden of Norway.

Namdalen - from the wilderness to the salty sea

Sør-Gjæslingan Fishing Village

Meråker - in a natural way

Meråker is rich in nature with its 1.300 square kilometers of mountains, mountain plains, forests and lakes. Here there is horse riding, dog team trekking, salmon and trout fishing, ski-trails and an alpine ski centre, an abundant animal life and many pleasant people who wish you welcome to a memorable experience.
The outdoor life is unsurpassed!

Meldal

Meldal is situated in the middle of the long valley called Orkladalføret between Orkdal and Rennebu. It is a fertile farming area and the river Orkla, one of the country's best salmon rivers, runs through the valley.

Walking in Norwegian nature

The perfect atmosphere can perhaps be found beside a lake in the forest. An evening when sky and water almost melt together, and the peace is only broken by melodic birdsong, a fish rise, or perhaps a white-billed diver swimming past. A forest lake where sky and water melt together. A moose is large, but does not make a lot of noise. Reindeer live in the mountains all year.

Skarvan and Roltdalen National Park

Skarvan and Roltdalen National Park is situated between Neadalføret and Stjørdalsføret and it contains within its boundaries mountain plateaus, wooded valleys and extensive marshy areas. It is an area that has remained untouched by major technological development, such as power transmission lines or roads. Roltdalen is the largest wooded valley in the Sør-Trøndelag region without any roads.