Summer in the Venabygd mountains

Venabu Fjellhotell lies in the middle of fantastic tour terrain on 'Venabygdsfjellet' and is a gateway to the Rondane National Park. In the summer months there is a large network of paths and trails in light easy terrain. We lie close to the birch forests as well as over 30 different mountain tops. At Venabu we offer walking, horse riding, canoeing, bathing, fishing & cycle hire. There are a whole variety of different walk, very short to very long.  The area is very good for hill walking. We also offer a ride with our minibus into the mountains every morning, with a variety of different routes back to the hotel. Choose from simple routes with good easy footpaths or visit deep canyons and waterfalls, mountain summits & plateaux.

Worth doing/worth seeing:

• Myfallene - 3 waterfalls, 100m fall, 3 km from the hotel
• Dørjuvet -  the "Grand Canyon" of Venabydgsfjellet
• Sollia Church – one of Norway’s best preserved churches from the Baroque period. Guiding possible
• Ringebu Stave Church and the art gallery at the old vicarage – guided visits
• Hundorp – Burial grounds from the Viking age
• Olympic Lillehammer – visit the arenas & Olympic museum
• Cultural Lillehammer – Art museum & Maihaugen, Norway’s largest open air museum
• Moose Safari – normally Tuesday evenings
• Rondane panorama - Harald Sohlbergs well known painting scene. "Vinternatt i fjellene"
• National tourist road Rondane, route 27 from Enden to Folldal
• Cycle & canoe hire 
• Programme at Rudi Gard (old farm with lots of cultural events)
• Peer Gynt by Gålåvatnet in end of July/beginning of August - open air play
• Summer farm lunch on Tuesdays
• Fishing in local lakes & streams
• Hunderfossen family park and Norwegian Road Museum, just north of Lillehammer
• Guided walking from beginning of June to end of August
• Rafting on River Sjoa
• Jutulhogget - Northern Europe's largest canyon (two hour car journey)
• Ringebusamlingene in Ringebu vicarage – paintings, including Jacob Weidemann
• Folldal mining museum
• Rondane national park
• Many great car journeys nearby - Geirangerfjord within reach for a day trip (long day)
• Storfjellseter - very special old place with coffee and art gallery in summer, along Friisvegen