Travel to Norway

In this article from Norway Advice I'll give you some tips on where to travel in the winter if you love to ski. I have picked out a total of 5 ski resorts in Norway that I believe you should consider during the planning of this year's winter holiday.

Voss
Voss is known as a ski resorts in Norway which has both Norwegian and foreign tourists who want to experience a challenging and beautiful scenery. Many visitors from Bergen also travel on day trips to Voss to use the resorts. Voss is located north-east in Hordaland county, about 1 hour and 15 minutes driving from Bergen. Centrally located along Vangsvatnet municipal center that goes under the name Vossevangen, where the council seat is located. Not far from here, (10 minutes from Vangen), you find Norway's major ski resorts called Bavallen, with 40 kilometers of groomed ski trails, cable car and 12 lifts with a total capacity for 12000 persons per hour.

Voss is also a mecca for extreme sports. The place has its own week called Ekstremsportvekå, (usually the last week of June), where everything that happen is dedicated to extreme sports. So if you are interested in sports such as rafting, abseiling, canyoing, fishing and hiking this is the place for you.

Beitostølen
Mountain village Beitostølen is a tourist center located in Øystre Slindre in Oppland county. The place has a location 900 meters above sea level and is not far from Jotunheimen. This is something that makes the snow come very early and ski season last until April. In Beitostøen you find a huge ski resort, hotels and widespread cottages. The place is very family friendly and there are short distances between the slopes, ski trails and habitations. The skiing area starts in the middle of Beitostølen city center and stretches up to 1100 meter above the sea.

Geilo
Geilo is a ski resort located  approximately 4 hours driving from Oslo. The Bergen train line also passes through, so you can also choose to travel by train from both Oslo and Bergen. Geilo is located 794 meters above sea level and has approximately 3000 inhabitants. There are many hotels and cabins, so the accommodation options are many. During winter many tourists come here to use the huge ski domain which consists of 40 ski slopes and 220 kilometres of groomed cross country trails. The ski resort consists of all types of slopes, from the simple to the more difficult ones. Geilo is also one of the largest ski resorts in Norway and you will definitely find something that suits your skills.

Norefjell
Norefjell is the most dominant mountain range in southern Norway and Oslo's nearest mountain. It has become a very popular ski resort, and the winter-Olympics in 1952 took place here. Since then Norefjell has been one of the largest and most modern ski resorts in Northern Europe. The mountain range is located between Eggedal in West and Krødsherad and Hallingdal in East. Many people from the Eastern part of Norway have cabins here, that they use a lot during the ski season. Norefjell Ski Center consists of 13 lifts and 24 slopes. The place is also a popular distination for cross country skiing because of miles of groomed trails.

Hafjell
Hafjell is located 230 kilometres from Oslo and is a popular ski resort, both for the Norwegians and visiting tourists. Hafjell Resort is located at the entrance to Gudbrandsdalen, 15 kilometres North of Lillehammer, and is one of Norway's largest resorts. It was here the Winter Olympic slalom took place in 1994, and it was due to that Hafjell was given a more recognized status as a ski resort. After the Lillehammer Olympics the ski resort was further developed and consists now of 30 trails, 1 cable car, 3 chairlifts and 11 ski lifts. It has also a large floodlight system and a terrain park for snowboarding and freestyle racing. The top point at Hafjell is located 1030 meters above sea level and has a fall of 835 meters.

Here are a few of the favourites:

Trysil
Trysil is the most trendy center for skiing in Norway, and the biggest if you count the amount of pists and lifts. They contain a major focus on security and the balance with all kinds of slopes.
Trysil has 32 lifts and 65 pists.

Oppdal
Oppdal is close to E6(the highway through Norway), and is roughly speaking 190 miles south of Trondheim.
This is a place for you if you wish to ride in the slopes, offpiste or only choose to walk on skiis.
All the lifts are on 4 individual mountaint tops. Many of the slopes are faced to the south - prefect for you if you'll like a tan in the early on summer. Oppdal has 17 lifts and 39 pists.

Hemsedal
There are other places with more lifts and longer slopes, but Hemsedal is more compelte once it comes to other offers aswell, like afterskii, entertainments and restaurants. This makes Hemsedal to the principally complete skiplace in Norway. Hemsedal has 22 lifts and 39 pists.

Stranda
National Geographic assumed that the norwegian fjords are one of the greatest places to travell to in the world. Close to the most trendy "Geiranger fjorden" is one of the most royal mountains for downhill skiing in Norway. Are you one of those who likes offpist is Stranda the greatest place north of the Alphs. Here the mountains are very steep, it is alot of snow and the view over the fjords are magical. But if you are one of those who likes it furthermost in the slopes or is gonna travel with your household, there would probably be better alternatives in Norway than Stranda. Stranda has 5 lifts and more or less 10 pists.

Hafjell and Kvitfjell
Hafjell and Kvitfjell is more or less 30 miles north of Lillehammer, and roughly speaking 3 hours with a car from Oslo. Since OL in Lillehammer in 1994 have these two places developed alot. In Hafjell and Kvitfjell there is slopes for the whole family and for all skill levels. There are 5 places around Lillehammer which all uses the "Ski Resorts Ski Pass" This is a liftpass that allowes you to travell freely connecting all those 5 places. This will acquire you a absolute access to 43 lifts and 66 slopes.

Geilo
Geilo is one of most safest places in Norway when it comes to having enough snow. Geilo has slopes for the complete family and can even offer you the opportunity to try kite-skiing, which Geilo have one of the best circumstances for in the world. Additionaly Geilo provides about 220km slopes in place of cross-country skiing.
Geilo has 20 lifts and 38 pists.

Beitostølen
Beitostølen is about 3 hours with a car from Oslo. Beitostølen can offer lots of wounderful untouched off-piste adventures, but does also offer the whole specter of different types of slopes for the family. Here you can find two centers with a total of 9 lifts, 21 slopes and 320km of pists for cross-country skiing.