Espedalen is a valley in the

Sør-Fron Sør-Fron is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hundorp. Other villages in the municipality include Gålå, Harp ...

and

Gausdal Gausdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Segalstad bru. Other villages in Gausdal include Follebu, Forset, ...

municipalities of

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The n ...

county,

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. The long valley is a continuation of the

en valley, which itself is a side valley that branches off of the main

Gudbrandsdal Gudbrandsdalen (; en, Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer and the lake of Mjøsa, extending toward ...

valley in

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Historically, mining was important in Espedalen with

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish ...

mining dating to the 1600s. Nickel mining was introduced in the 1880s. At the north end of the lake Espedalsvatnet are the remains of smelting and mining settlements from that time.

Espedalen Chapel Espedalen Church ( no, Espedalen fjellkirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Espedalen valley, at Verksodden. It is one of the churches for the Sør-Fron p ...

was built in 1974 to serve the local population. The wooden building was designed by the architect

Bjarne Bystad Ellefsen Bjarne is a Nordic male name, a variant of Bjorn, and can refer to the following people: *Bjarne Andersson, a cross-country skier *Bjarne Berg-Sæther, a Norwegian politician *Bjarne Berntsen, a Norwegian football coach and former player *Bjarne ...

. Peer Gynt Road (''Peer Gyntveien'') is a long private tourist road that runs from

Svingvoll Svingvoll is a village in Gausdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Gausa, about southeast of the Skeikampen alpine skiing centre and about to the northwest of the village of Segalstad bru and abou ...

in Gausdal to Ruten in Espedalen.''Peer Gyntveien'' (Peer Gynt AS0
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Valleys of Innlandet Sør-Fron Gausdal {{Innlandet-geo-stub