Where to stay in Høylandet
Beds in Høylandet are scarce and scattered, with a handful of guest rooms, cabins and farm stays spread across the parish rather than gathered in one centre. The main settlement near Høylandet kirke holds what little there is, handy for the church and the few local services. It is the obvious base.
Out toward the forest and the river valleys around Drageid kirke, holiday cabins sit among the fields and woodland, a quiet choice for travellers touring the inland country of the north-eastern part of Trøndelag by car. Stock there is thin in every season. If the municipality has no room, the larger towns down toward the coast hold more hotels within an easy drive back into Høylandet.
Reserve ahead in summer, when walkers and anglers reach this inland corner of central Norway and the few rooms fill quickly.
About Høylandet
What is Høylandet known for?
Høylandet is a small farming and forest community in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag, away from the coast and the main roads. Its churches anchor the district. Høylandet kirke stands at the heart of the municipality, a heritage-listed church serving the parish, while Drageid kirke marks an outlying corner of the land.
Few travellers pass through, and those who do come for the open country, the rivers and the worked fields of this inland reach of central Norway.
What are the main landmarks in Høylandet?
Høylandet kirke is the chief landmark of the municipality, a church protected for its heritage and standing at the centre of the parish in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. Out in an outlying corner of the district sits Drageid kirke, a smaller chapel serving the scattered farms beyond the main settlement. The two churches mark the land.
Between them spread the fields, forest and river valleys that give Høylandet its quiet character in this inland reach of central Norway.
What is the history of Høylandet?
Høylandet took its shape as a parish of farms and forest in the inland country of the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. The settlers cleared land for grain and grazing along the river valleys, and the community grew slowly around the church and the worked fields rather than around any harbour or market town. Farming held the people here.
Høylandet kirke rose to serve the parish and was later protected for its heritage, while Drageid kirke came to serve the outlying farms beyond the main settlement. The district kept to its rhythm of forestry, livestock and the long inland winters through the generations. Roads reached the valleys late, and Høylandet stayed a place apart, governed as its own municipality in Trøndelag and tied to the wider region by the rivers and the routes down toward the coast.
The church at the centre and the chapel out among the farms still trace that long, quiet history across the inland reach of central Norway.
Where is Høylandet?
Høylandet lies inland among rivers, forest and farmland in the north-eastern part of Trøndelag, in central Norway. The municipality fills a band of cleared valley floor with wooded ridges rising on either side and watercourses threading down through the inland country toward the coast. Forest closes in around the fields.
Høylandet kirke stands on the worked ground at the centre, while Drageid kirke sits out among the scattered farms, the two churches set against the high inland land that walls this quiet district off from the sea.
What is the climate of Høylandet?
Høylandet has a cold, snowy inland climate well away from the moderating sea. Winters are long and hard, with deep snow over the forest and farmland and the river valleys frozen through the dark months of the year. Summers are brief but bright.
The long northern daylight thaws the fields fast, and the green country around Høylandet kirke draws walkers and anglers in the short warm season before the cold returns to this high inland corner of central Norway.
How do you get to Høylandet?
Høylandet is reached by road through the inland valleys of the north-eastern part of Trøndelag. The main route follows the river country up from the larger towns toward the coast, with side roads running out to the farms and to Drageid kirke. Nearly everyone drives.
Buses serve the parish on limited runs, while the nearest airports and rail lines lie well down toward the coast and the sea, leaving the last stretch into this inland corner of central Norway to the valley roads past Høylandet kirke.