Vidalen is a small forested valley in
Norway
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that runs along the border between
Sør-Aurdal Municipality
Sør-Aurdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bagn. Other villages in the municipality include Begna, Hedal ...
in
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 and
Ringerike Municipality (and a small part of
Flå Municipality) in
Viken
Viken may refer to:
* Viken, Scandinavia, a historical region
*Viken (county), a Norwegian county established in 2020
* Viken, Sweden, a bimunicipal locality in Skåne County, Sweden
* Viken (lake), a lake in Sweden, part of the part of the Göta c ...
county.
The river Vidøla is a small river which flows through the valley down to where it flows into the Urula river where the valley joins the
Hedalen
Hedalen is a valley in Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The long valley is a side valley which branches off the main Begnadalen. The river Urula flows through the valley. The central part of the valley is located about to t ...
valley. From there it flows into the lake
Sperillen
Sperillen is a lake in the valley of Ã…dal in Ringerike municipality, Viken county, Norway.[Sperillen]
Store Norske Leksikon, retrieved ...
just south of the village of
Nes
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in
Ã…dal
Ã…dal is a valley in the municipality of Ringerike and was a former municipality in Buskerud County, Norway.
The municipality was created in 1857 by a split from Norderhov. At that time Ã…dal had a population of 2,382. On 1 January 1964 Ã…dal wa ...
. The area has traditionally been used for forestry, grazing, hunting, and fishing. The
coniferous forest
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All ex ...
consists mostly of
spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal ( taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the sub ...
. Logging has been underway in the valley for more than 300 years.
Vidalen offers a varied landscape with forests, mountains, lakes, and marshland combined with an abundance of wildlife. The ''Vassfaret og Vidalen landskapsvernområde'' is a
conservation area
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which was established in the area during 1985. The protected areas extends approximately from south to north.
References
Valleys of Innlandet
Valleys of Viken
Sør-Aurdal
Ringerike (municipality)
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