Eidsbugarden
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Eidsbugarden is a tourist center which lies at the western end of Lake Bygdin in the Jotunheimen mountain range on the outskirts of Jotunheim National Park in Oppland, Norway. Eidsbugarden lies to the southeast in Jotunheim and north of the lake lies an area over 2000 m.
A memorial was raised in 1959 to the Norwegian poet Aasmund Olavsson Vinje at the western end of Lake Bygdin at Eidsbugarden on the outskirts of Jotunheim National Park where he had a private hut. Friends and followers commemorated his contribution to appreciation of Norwegian nature and strengthening of the Norwegian national identity.
Today Eidsbugarden is a rather large mountain tourist centre, with a hotel from 1909 which is being restored to reopen in the summer of 2006, a Norwegian Mountain Touring Association (DNT) cabin and approximately 160 private huts (cabins).
Along the lake there are many tourist huts –on the west end lies Eidsbugarden, on the north side lies Torfinnsbu and on the east side lies Bygdin turisthytte. In the summer these huts are connected by boat and in winter by ski or snowmobile.
[edit] External links
- A map of Jotunheim National Park showing Eidsbugarden and related sites around the lake
- Eidsbugarden by web camera
- Meteorological data for Eidsbugarden
- Eidsbugarden (Norwegian)
- Home page for Eidbugarden hotel
- Picture of the general area
- Weather forecast for the Eidsbugarden area
- A beautiful bike route involving Eidsbugarden
- A backpackers description of the area
- Another backpackers route to try?
- (German page about the area)
- Biking the milky way
- One persons advice on backpacking in Norway and the Norwegian mountains
- going by boat in the area
- Skiing routes in the area
- Home page of the local bus/boat/snow track company
- Eidsbugarden - Skinneggi - Hundeknappen trail
- Norwegian authorities road state report for the area
- A mountain climbers page
- Weather forecast
