Narvik is a fjord port in northern Norway, set in the north-eastern part of Nordland on the Nord-Norge coast.
How do I choose between ski destinations?
Judge the season, not the brochure: altitude and latitude set how early and late the snow holds, and lift-base villages save the daily commute to the slopes. A smaller area with reliable cover and lodging at the lifts usually beats a bigger name reached by bus.
Geilo gathers Hol's mountain country in western Buskerud around one village — high terrain for the snow months, with the Ustedalen chapel in its valley.
Nordfjordeid is the administrative centre of Stad Municipality in western Norway, set at the head of Eidsfjorden in the Nordfjord region.
Beitostølen stands about 900 metres up where the Valdresflye mountain plateau begins — Øystre Slidre's high village with skiing at its doorstep.
Voss skis between lake and fell in southern Vestland, with the Bavallsbakken hill above town and Voss Church and the open-air folk museum below.
Sortland is the main town of the Vesterålen region, set on the island of Langøya in northern Norway.
Hemsedal pairs its own skisenter with the high mountain country of Hallingdal in Buskerud, a municipality of its own since it left Gol in 1897.
Sjusjøen is Ringsaker's mountain village in southern Innlandet — winter high ground with its own fjellkirke and Mesnali's church close by.
Hovden is a mountain resort in Bykle, in the north-western part of Agder, in southern Norway.
Tysse is a fjordside village in Samnanger, in the south-western part of Vestland, western Norway.
Volda is a fjord town of Sunnmøre, set among the steep slopes of western Norway.
Tretten is a village in the Gudbrandsdal valley by the Losna lake, in Øyer in Innlandet, Norway.