Where to stay in Ski
Stay by the station. The town centre wraps around the rail hub in the south-western part of Akershus, and a room there gives you fast trains to the capital plus the shops and cafés close at hand. It is the obvious base for a short visit.
Families bound for TusenFryd, with its SpeedMonster and SuperSplash rides, often choose a central room and ride out to the park, since beds beside the gates are scarce. The wider district of Nordre Follo spreads outward through quieter quarters like Langhus and Kolbotn, each with its own heritage-listed church, Langhus kirke and Kolbotn kirke. Skiers can look toward the slopes at the Trolldalen skisenter or the Ingierkollen slalåmsenter on the edges of town.
Most travellers still pick the station district, which keeps both the trains and the park bus within easy reach of the old Ski middelalderkirke.
Things to do in Ski
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Churches & Religious Sites
- Ski middelalderkirke Heritage-listed
- Kråkstad kirke Heritage-listed
- Kolbotn kirke Heritage-listed — church in Nordre Follo
- Oppegård kirke Heritage-listed
- Siggerud kapell Heritage-listed
- Nordby kirke Heritage-listed — church in Ås, Akerhsus
2 more
- Langhus kirke Heritage-listed
- Greverud kirke Heritage-listed
Stadiums & Sports
- Ingierkollen slalåmsenter
- Trolldalen skisenter
- Stil Arena — sports venue in Nordre Follo
About Ski
What is Ski known for?
Two words: TusenFryd. The amusement park brings the crowds, with rides like SpeedMonster and the wooden ThunderCoaster pulling thrill-seekers from across the region. Beyond the park, Ski is a railway town in the south-western part of Akershus, chartered in the 19th century and grown into the hub of the surrounding district of Nordre Follo.
The old Ski middelalderkirke still marks where it all began.
What are the main landmarks in Ski?
The park steals the show. TusenFryd lines up rides from SpeedMonster and the wooden ThunderCoaster to SuperSplash and the Loopen. Older landmarks hold their ground too, led by the medieval Ski middelalderkirke and a ring of heritage churches: Kråkstad kirke, Nordby kirke, Greverud kirke, Oppegård kirke, and the small Siggerud kapell.
The historic house at Uranienborg and the modern Stil Arena round out a varied list across the district of Nordre Follo.
What is the history of Ski?
A church marks the start. The medieval Ski middelalderkirke records a parish that long predates the modern town, when farms and the surrounding district mattered more than any street grid in the south-western part of Akershus. Worship and farming set the early shape of the place, and the old churches at Kråkstad and Langhus carried that life into the wider countryside.
The charter came in 1879. With it the railway settled Ski into its modern role as a junction town, drawing trade and people toward the lines that ran out from the capital. The town grew steadily as the hub of the district later named Nordre Follo, gathering quarters like Langhus and Kolbotn under one civic roof.
Later still, TusenFryd opened its gates nearby and gave the area a new draw, its coasters a long way in spirit from the parish that founded the place. The historic house at Uranienborg keeps a thread of that older story alive.
Where is Ski?
Low ground, gentle slopes. Ski sits on the settled lowland of the south-western part of Akershus, where wooded ridges break the farmland and rail lines thread the valleys. The slopes that gave the area its winter venues, the Trolldalen skisenter and the Ingierkollen slalåmsenter, rise on the edges of the built-up town.
This is south-eastern Norway away from the coast, a landscape of forest, field, and the streets of Nordre Follo.
What is the climate of Ski?
Snow in season. Far inland on the lowland of Akershus, Ski runs through cold, snow-prone winters that feed the slopes at the Trolldalen skisenter, then opens into warm, green summers over the surrounding farmland. The shoulder seasons pass quickly.
Frost settles hard on still mornings across the district of Nordre Follo, the mark of a south-eastern Norway town well back from any softening sea.
How do you get to Ski?
The train, of course. Ski is a busy rail junction in the south-western part of Akershus, with frequent services to the capital and onward across south-eastern Norway, and the station sits right in the centre. From there a short bus or drive reaches TusenFryd and its SpeedMonster ride.
Roads and local buses tie the town to the outlying quarters of Langhus and Kolbotn within the district of Nordre Follo.