Where to stay in Rollag
Beds in Rollag spread thin along the Numedal valley, the way of a scattered farming municipality, with rooms found mainly in two clusters. The village of Rollag holds a few guest rooms near the administrative centre, handy for travellers passing through the valley by car. It is a small base.
Up the valley at Veggli, the larger settlement, cabins and holiday houses gather near Veggli kirke and the road, the busier cluster of beds in this part of Buskerud and a good base for walkers heading into the hills. These fill in the warm months. Out among the farms and the side valleys, scattered cabins and farm stays stand near Mogen Landhandleri and the old parishes, a quiet stock for visitors touring Numedal and the country toward Nore og Uvdal and Flesberg.
Reserve ahead in summer, when the valley draws walkers and the cabins of Rollag fill across the high country of Buskerud.
About Rollag
What is Rollag known for?
Rollag runs along the Numedal valley. The village of Rollag serves as the administrative centre of an old farming district that stretches up the valley floor and over the wooded ridges of this corner of Buskerud. Veggli holds more of the people.
Higher up the valley the wooden Veggli kirke marks the parish there, and Mogen Landhandleri, an old country store turned museum, keeps the trade and daily life of Numedal. Farms and parishes make the place.
What are the main landmarks in Rollag?
Veggli kirke is the landmark of Rollag. A protected wooden church up the Numedal valley at Veggli, it marks the larger settlement of the municipality and serves as the chief built sight of the district. History lives at Mogen Landhandleri too.
An old country store turned museum, it keeps the trade and daily life of the valley, while the farms and parishes scattered along Numedal carry the older fabric of this valley municipality in the southern part of Buskerud.
What is the history of Rollag?
Rollag grew as a chain of farms along the Numedal valley. Settlement followed the valley floor and the slopes, the parishes gathering around their churches as the people worked the land and the forest, and the district took its name from the old farm seat that became its administrative centre. Farming made the living.
Timber and the land carried Numedal through the long centuries, the valley reaching south from the high country toward the lowlands of Buskerud. Veggli rose as the larger settlement higher up the valley, its wooden Veggli kirke serving the people of the upper parishes. Trade and travel along the valley road brought the old country store of Mogen Landhandleri, later kept as a museum of valley life, and Rollag settled into its shape as a scattered municipality of farms and parishes.
Bordered by Nore og Uvdal, Sigdal, Flesberg and Tinn in Telemark, the district held its place along Numedal in the southern part of Buskerud.
Where is Rollag?
Rollag lies along the Numedal valley in the southern part of Buskerud, in south-eastern Norway. The municipality stretches up the valley floor and over the wooded ridges, the village of Rollag set lower down and Veggli higher up beside Veggli kirke. Forest and high country frame the valley.
Rollag borders Nore og Uvdal to the north and Flesberg to the south along Numedal, with Sigdal to the east and Tinn in Telemark over the hills to the west, a long valley district of farms, woods and slopes in this corner of Buskerud.
What is the climate of Rollag?
Rollag has the cold inland climate of the high valleys of eastern Norway. Winters run long and snowy, the frost settling hard along the Numedal valley and the snow lying deep over the wooded ridges and the farms of Buskerud through the dark months. Summers are short and green.
The valley warms quickly under the long northern daylight, drawing walkers up toward Veggli and the high country, while the surrounding hills keep the air cool and the nights fresh across this corner of Numedal.
How do you get to Rollag?
Rollag is reached by road up the Numedal valley. The valley road carries the traffic from the lowlands of Buskerud to the south, running past the village of Rollag and on up to Veggli and the high country. Most come by car.
There is no railway in the valley, so visitors drive in to reach Veggli kirke, the museum at Mogen Landhandleri and the farms of Numedal, while the wider airports and rail of eastern Norway lie well to the south-east for those reaching this part of Buskerud from further off.