Where to stay in Skotterud
Most beds in Skotterud gather in the town centre near Eidskog kirke, where guest rooms and small hotels stand within a short walk of the shops, the rail halt and the road running on toward the border. The centre suits visitors who want the town services and the church on the doorstep. It is the natural base.
Out by Magnor and the crossing at Morokulien, roadside rooms and motels take in drivers and travellers passing between Norway and Sweden along the frontier. Those rooms see steady trade. Across the rest of Eidskog, farm stays and forest cabins spread among the lakes and woods toward Vestmarka kirke, a quiet base for walkers and anglers working the border forests.
Beds thin in the outlying parishes. Reserve ahead in summer, when the border park and the lakes draw visitors to this corner of Innlandet.
About Skotterud
What is Skotterud known for?
Skotterud is the administrative centre of Eidskog municipality, set in the forest country close to the Swedish border. The peace park of Morokulien is the chief draw, a monument straddling the line between Norway and Sweden a short way east of the town. The border made the place.
Eidskog kirke marks the old parish, and between the church, the museum at Eidskog and the crossing point at Morokulien, Skotterud serves as the centre for the scattered forest farms of this south-eastern corner of Innlandet.
What are the main landmarks in Skotterud?
Morokulien is the best-known sight near Skotterud. The peace park straddles the very line between Norway and Sweden east of the town, its monument set on the border itself. Churches mark the older settlement.
Eidskog kirke stands for the chief parish, Magnor kirke serves the village by the frontier, and Vestmarka kirke rises among the forest farms, while the Eidskog museum keeps the local story in this south-eastern corner of Innlandet near the border.
What is the history of Skotterud?
Skotterud grew in the forest country of Eidskog close to the line dividing Norway from Sweden. The old parishes lay scattered among the lakes and woods, their churches, Eidskog kirke and Vestmarka kirke among them, serving the farms long before a town gathered by the road and the rail. The forest shaped the living.
Timber and the trade across the frontier ran through Eidskog, and the crossing point at Magnor and Morokulien drew traffic to the border, the spot where the two countries met marked in time by a monument to peace. Rail and road fixed Skotterud as the centre of the district. The station and the shops gathered the trade of the surrounding farms, and the town became the seat of Eidskog municipality, the place where the forest parishes came together.
An Eidskog museum keeps the memory of the border country, and Skotterud holds its place as the hub for the scattered settlement of this south-eastern corner of Innlandet, the frontier always close at hand beyond the woods.
Where is Skotterud?
Skotterud lies in the forest and lake country of Eidskog, in the south-eastern part of Innlandet, in south-eastern Norway, close to the Swedish border. The town stands by the road and rail that run toward the crossing at Morokulien, the centre gathered near Eidskog kirke. Woods and water frame the town.
Eidskog reaches out among the lakes and forest toward Magnor and Vestmarka kirke, taking in the scattered farms and the long border line that edges the district east of Skotterud.
What is the climate of Skotterud?
Skotterud has the cool, continental climate of the inland forest country. Winters run cold and snowy in the woods of Eidskog, frost and lasting snow settling over the lakes and the farms around the town through the dark months under the shelter of the inland position. Summers are warm and green.
The forests and lakes hold the heat of the long northern days, the air mild over the woods toward Morokulien and the border, when the light falls late on the lake country of this corner of Innlandet.
How do you get to Skotterud?
Skotterud sits on the rail line and road running toward the Swedish border. Trains stop in the town on the route that crosses the frontier, the station a short walk from Eidskog kirke and the centre. Many cross by car.
The border road carries drivers through Skotterud past Magnor and the crossing at Morokulien between Norway and Sweden, while the wider airports of Innlandet and the eastern lowlands handle the longer journeys of travellers reaching this forest corner of the county.