Gardnos is a small village in

Nesbyen Nesbyen is a town and the administrative center in Nesbyen (municipality), Nesbyen municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hallingdal. Summary Having a population of about 3,500 inhabitant ...

municipality,

Buskerud Buskerud () is a Counties of Norway, county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Innlandet, Vestland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Hardanger ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. Gardnos is on

Norwegian National Road 7 Norwegian National Road 7 (, ) is a national road in Norway which runs from the town of Hønefoss in Buskerud county to the village of Granvin in Vestland county. The route is long and runs east–west through Viken and Vestland counties ove ...

midway between

and Gol. It is mainly known as the site of the

Gardnos crater Gardnos crater (''Gardnos krateret'') is a meteorite impact crater in Nesbyen municipality in Buskerud, Norway. It is located inside Meteorite Park (''Meteorittparken'') at Gardnos north of the town of Nesbyen. Gardnos crater is in diameter ...

. Gardnos Meteorite Center (''Gardnos Meteorittpark'') is open to the public with guided tours provided during summer months. ''Velkommen til Meteorittparken'' (nesbyen.no)
/ref> Gardnos meteorite park 1

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Gardnos Meteorittpark
Villages in Buskerud Nesbyen {{Buskerud-geo-stub