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Where to Stay in Høylandet, Trøndelag
Høylandet is a village on the river Søråa in central Norway, the administrative centre of Høylandet Municipality in Trøndelag.
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Høylandet itself is the only address that counts, a small administrative centre strung along the river Søråa with County Road 17 carrying traffic past its door. Beds are scarce. Nothing here divides into districts, and a traveller choosing where to sleep is really choosing between the village street and the open ground along the Søråa.
Høylandet kirke sits on the north side, close enough that a stay in the village puts it within a walk. Drageid kirke lies elsewhere in the municipality. Vassbotna sits about 10 kilometres from the village and Gartland about 12 kilometres, near enough that either could serve as a base for someone driving in.
The practical calculation is simple: whoever wants choice books in a larger place and drives the County Road 17 in, and whoever wants the river and the quiet books in Høylandet and accepts what is available. Book well ahead. A village of this size in Trøndelag holds very few rooms, and summer visitors to the Søråa valley take them early.
A stay here suits travellers who want a night on the Søråa, the two churches of the municipality, and open country in every direction rather than anything a town can provide.
About Høylandet
What is Høylandet known for?
The Norwegian County Road 17 runs through Høylandet, and the village sits along the river Søråa in the southern part of the municipality it administers. Two churches mark it. Høylandet kirke stands on the north side of the village, and Drageid kirke, Drageid Chapel in English, is the second of the pair.
Vassbotna and Gartland are the nearest villages.
What are the main landmarks in Høylandet?
Høylandet kirke stands on the north side of the village, and it carries a heritage designation. Drageid kirke is the other one. Recorded in English as Drageid Chapel, it belongs to the same municipality, and the two churches together are what the map of Høylandet marks as built landmarks, with everything else on it river, road, and open ground.
The river Søråa and County Road 17 do the rest of the work.
What is the history of Høylandet?
The churches carry the oldest part of the story. Høylandet kirke holds a heritage designation, which places it among the buildings Norway protects, and it stands on the north side of the village rather than in the middle of it. Drageid kirke is the other.
A settlement along the river Søråa with two churches inside one municipality suggests a district built out of scattered farms rather than a single centre, with each cluster keeping its own place of worship. Vassbotna and Gartland sit at the edges of that pattern, each about ten or twelve kilometres from Høylandet. Høylandet became the administrative centre of the municipality that shares its name, and that role, rather than size, is what gives a village on the Søråa a place on the map of Trøndelag.
County Road 17 runs through it. A through road changes what a village is for, and Høylandet's position on the Norwegian County Road 17 is the reason a driver crossing central Norway passes it rather than skirting it. The village keeps Høylandet kirke on its north side, the Søråa alongside, and County Road 17 through the middle.
Where is Høylandet?
Høylandet lies along the river Søråa, in the southern part of the municipality it administers, in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. The ground is open. Vassbotna sits about 10 kilometres away, with Høylandet north-east of it, and Gartland about 12 kilometres off, with Høylandet north-west of it, which is the scale the whole district works at.
County Road 17 gives it a line through.
What is the climate of Høylandet?
The Søråa valley funnels the weather. Høylandet sits in a subpolar band where winter arrives early and holds, with snow a settled condition rather than an event, and daylight in the darkest weeks reduced to a few hours. Summer is brief here.
Rain and cloud reach the valley off the coast, and the swing between a dark winter and a light summer is the largest single fact about the year in this part of Trøndelag.
How do you get to Høylandet?
The Norwegian County Road 17 is the way in, running through Høylandet itself rather than past it, which makes the village straightforward to reach for anyone already driving through Trøndelag. Vassbotna and Gartland are the near neighbours, each about ten or twelve kilometres from the village. Everything arrives by car.
Høylandet kirke on the north side is the marker a driver uses to know the village has been reached.
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Updated August 2026