Eidsbugarden is a tourist center which lies at the western end of Lake Bygdin in the

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mountain range on the outskirts of

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. Eidsbugarden lies to the southeast in Jotunheim. A memorial was raised in 1959 to the Norwegian poet

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at Eidsbugarden where he had a private hut. Friends and followers commemorated his contribution to appreciation of Norwegian nature and strengthening of the Norwegian national identity. Today Eidsbugarden is a rather large mountain tourist centre, with a hotel from 1909, restored in 2006, a

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(DNT) cabin and approximately 160 private huts (cabins). Along the lake there are several tourist huts –on the west end lies Eidsbugarden, on the north side lies Torfinnsbu and on the east side lies Bygdin turisthytte. In the summer these huts are connected by boat and in winter by ski or snowmobile. The first weekend in August every year, the Vinjerock festival is arranged at Eidsbugarden. Artists such as Dumdum Boys, Thomas Dybdahl and

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have played at the festival.

External links

Eidsbugarden by web camera

Home page for Eidbugarden hotel

The Vinjerock festival at Eidsbugarden
Tourist huts in Norway Jotunheimen {{norway-struct-stub