Where to stay in Bogen
Most beds in Bogen gather in the small village centre near Bogen kapell, where guest rooms and a few rooms stand within a short walk of the chapel and the road down to the fjord. The centre suits travellers who want the services of Evenes close at hand. It is the natural base.
Out along the fjord and toward the Gállogieddi friluftsmuseum, cabins and farm rooms sit among the fells, a quieter berth for visitors drawn to the open-air museum and the water of this north-eastern reach of Nordland. Rooms there are few. Across the rest of the municipality, holiday houses spread among the fjord shores of Evenes, a scattered base for travellers touring the coast of northern Norway by car.
Beds thin between the hamlets. Reserve well ahead in the bright summer, when the fjord and the museum draw visitors to this corner of Nord-Norge.
About Bogen
What is Bogen known for?
Bogen is the central village of Evenes, the municipality on the fjords of the north-eastern part of Nordland. The listed Bogen kapell stands here as the chief landmark of the parish, a small heritage church above the water. Culture runs deep in the district.
The Gállogieddi friluftsmuseum keeps an open-air collection of the old farm life of Evenes, and the village gathers the services of this fjord corner of Nord-Norge.
What are the main landmarks in Bogen?
Bogen kapell is the chief landmark of the village. The listed chapel stands above the fjord and has served the parish of Evenes for generations, the fixed point of worship for the scattered settlement. Heritage protects it.
A short way off, the Gállogieddi friluftsmuseum gathers the old farm buildings of the district into an open-air collection, telling the country life of this north-eastern corner of Nordland.
What is the history of Bogen?
Bogen grew as the central settlement of Evenes, the fjord district in the north-eastern part of Nordland. The farms along the water built their chapel early, and the listed Bogen kapell still marks the old centre of worship that gathered the scattered households of the parish. The fjord fed the people.
Fishing and farming ran through the shores of Evenes for generations, and the open water and the fells shaped the life of the households in this corner of Nordland. The seat settled on Bogen as the municipality took shape. Roads and the coastal traffic of northern Norway bound the farms to the village, and the services of Evenes gathered around the centre by the fjord.
The old country life was kept in memory at the Gállogieddi friluftsmuseum, where the farm buildings of the district stand as an open-air collection. Bogen became the seat where Evenes keeps its business, a quiet centre on the north-eastern reach of Nord-Norge.
Where is Bogen?
Bogen lies on the fjord in the north-eastern part of Nordland, in northern Norway. The village sits where the water meets the low ground below the fells, the centre gathered near Bogen kapell and the road that serves the seat of Evenes. Fjord and fell frame the place.
Evenes reaches across a coast of fjord shores and uplands, taking in the farms whose museum, the Gállogieddi friluftsmuseum, stands among the fells beyond the village edge.
What is the climate of Bogen?
Bogen has the cool, wet coastal climate of the Nordland fjords. Winters stay long and dark this far north, though the open water of the fjord softens the cold that the surrounding fells would otherwise hold over the village of Evenes. Summers are short and light.
The midnight sun keeps the sky bright over the fjord through the high season, while cloud and rain off the northern sea reach this corner of Nordland in every month of the year.
How do you get to Bogen?
Bogen sits on the road network of the Evenes fjords. Buses carry travellers between the village and the wider routes of Nordland, and the centre lies a short walk from Bogen kapell. Many come by car.
The main roads thread the fjord shores and the fells of northern Norway to reach the seat of Evenes, while the regional airport handles the longer journeys of visitors arriving in this north-eastern corner of Nord-Norge from the south.