Innerdalen is a valley in

Sunndal Municipality is a municipality in the Nordmøre region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Sunndalsøra. Other villages include Gjøra, Grøa, Hoelsand, Jordalsgr ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is t ...

county,

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. In 1967, the valley was established as Norway's first

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

. The valley and nature reserve begins at the village of

Ålvundeidet Ålvundeidet is a village in Sunndal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located at the western end of the Innerdalen valley on an isthmus between two fjords: Ålvundfjorden and Sunndalsfjorden. The village area ...

by the Norwegian National Road 70 in the west and stretches approximately to the east to Innerdalsporten. It lies within the

Trollheimen Trollheimen is a mountain range in Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag counties in central Norway. The mountain range is part of the Scandinavian Mountains. Etymology The name ('the home of the trolls') was proposed by Håkon Løken and used by T ...

mountain range. The valley is regularly visited by

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s. Some of the mountains include Store Trolla (, highest in

), Skarfjellet (), and Innerdalstårnet (). For glacier hiking, there is a glacier on top of Kongskrona called Vinnufonna. In 2001,

Norsk Tindeklub Norsk Tindeklub is a Norwegian mountaineering association. The club was founded in 1908. The association issues climbing guides and mountaineering books. The club has issued several jubilee books in the series ''Norsk Fjellsport'' (1914, 1933, 19 ...

(Norwegian Mountaineering Association) released a mountain guide for Innerdalen (in Norwegian) and they also have a private cabin, Giklingdalshytta, beneath the mountain Innerdalstårnet. The

Norwegian Mountain Touring Association The Norwegian Trekking Association ( no, Den norske turistforening, DNT) is a Norwegian association which maintains mountain trails and cabins in Norway. The association was founded on 21 January 1868 with the scope "to help and develop tourism i ...

has two cabins in the valley, Innerdalshytta (originally built 1889) and Renndølsetra.

References

Nature reserves in Norway Sunndal Valleys of Møre og Romsdal {{Europe-protected-area-stub