Official Name: | Elvesæter |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Innlandet#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Innlandet |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Gudbrandsdalen |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Lom Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 2687 Bøverdalen |
Coordinates: | 61.7043°N 8.2854°W |
Elevation M: | 669 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elvesæter is a village in Lom Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located at the junction of the Bøverdalen and Leirdalen valleys, about southwest of the village of Fossbergom. The small village area lies in the Jotunheimen mountains, just north of Jotunheimen National Park. The village lies about north of Galdhøpiggen, the tallest mountain in Norway.
The village is the site of a large hotel which was the site of the 12th World Scout Conference in 1949.[2]