Høylandet

Høylandet is an agricultural municipality in the river valley surrounding Søråa and Kongsmoelva. The landscape is green and lush with a rich agriculture history, and modern food production.

However, Høylandet is probably most known for Norsk Revyfestival (The Norwegian Revue festival), Norway’s most amusing festival. Every other year thousands of people show up in a field in Høylandet to be entertained. The revue festival is one of Norway’s leading humour events and the locals volunteer en masse to make the event happen. In 2019 the locals even created the world’s largest campfire coffee pot, enough for 39 000 cups. Photographers and birth watchers will find excellent motifs in Høylandet. Flakkan nature and bird reserve is home to redshanks, greenshanks, golden­ eyes, wigeons, swans and quite a few beavers. Red­throated loon, mallard, tufted duck and cranes all nest in Øie nature reserve. Grongstadfossen waterfall is also a good photo motif. The 75­meter waterfall is particularly impressive during the spring melt. The waterfall is signposted from Fv17, just before the centre of Høylandet. Here you can park and enjoy the waterfall or follow a path down the river for an even better view.

CYCLING SUGGESTION:

There are several signposted cycling routes in Høylandet. Cycling around Øyvatnet lake is nice during the summer, with grazing horses at Bjøllia, birds in Øie nature reserve and the idyllic Svortstranda beach. Bremburunden is a 4.5 km long route for cycling and walking. This round­trip passes Hammarsbru bridge, a protected covered bridge. Orsgrønningløypa is a 15 km long route along scenic Orsgrønningen. A detour down to Grongstadfossen waterfall is recommended. Lille Flakkenrunden is also a scenic cycling trip. You can find more suggestions on visitnamdalen.com

Sleep & do

Arctic Dome Namdalen

7877 Høylandet E­mail: post@arcticdomenamdalen.com Tel.: +47 476 15 596

Børstad Gård

Børstad 48, 7877 Høylandet E­mail: haflasne@online.no Tel.: +47 900 27 535

Norsk Revyfestival

7877 Høylandet E­mail: festival@revy.no Tel.: +47 74 32 10 50

Do you want to experience the feeling of travelling back in time, while enjoying luxurious glamping in an Arctic Dome? Here you can utilize the old summer shieling buildings, wander in the cultural landscape, sit by the campfire, and feel the tranquillity of being surrounded by nature.

Arctic Dome Namdalen has a large bed, two comfy armchairs, a wood burning stove and lanterns. If the weather is nice you can listen to birds tweeting and smell nature while enjoying the outdoors. If it rains you can hunker down in bed for a cosy day, watching raindrops fall on the dome. You can also go for a walk along one of our signposted trails, have an outdoors shower afterwards, then enjoy a high­quality meal. It doesn’t get any better.