Oppland[ˈɔ̂plɑn](listen) was until 1 January 2020 a county in Norway bordering to the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration was located in Lillehammer.
Folldal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. It is bordered on the north by Oppdal and Tynset municipalities, in the east by Alvdal municipality, in the south by Stor-Elvdal, Sør-Fron and Sel municipalities, and in the west by Dovre municipality. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Folldal. Mining at the Folldal mines was the main industry for Folldal's residents from the 18th century until the last mine related operation in 1993. The new municipality of Folldal was separated from Alvdal in 1914.
Dovre is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dovre. The municipality is bordered on the north by Oppdal municipality, on the east by Folldal, on the south by Sel and Vågå, and on the northwest by Lesja. The highest peak is Snøhetta at a height of 2,286 metres (7,500 ft). The municipality of Dovre was created when it was separated from the municipality of Lesja in 1861. The area "upper Folldal" was transferred from Dovre to Alvdal in 1884.
Nord-Fron is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vinstra. The old municipality of Fron was divided into Nord-Fron and Sør-Fron in 1851. In 1966, they were merged back together again, but that only lasted until 1977 when they separated once again.
Rondane National Park is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962. The park contains ten peaks above 2,000 metres (6,560 ft), with the highest being Rondeslottet at an altitude of 2,178 m (7,146 ft). The park is an important habitat for herds of wild reindeer.
Dovre National Park is a national park in Hedmark and Oppland, Norway, that was established in 2003. Dovre covers an area of 289 km² and the altitude varies from the tree line around 1000 meters to 1716 meters (Fokstuhøe).
Dovrefjell is a mountain range in central Norway that forms a natural barrier between Eastern Norway and Trøndelag, the area around Trondheim. As a result, its valleys and passes have been heavily trafficked during and probably preceding historical times. Several mountain inns were established in the Middle Ages to house pilgrims traveling through Dovrefjell to Trondheim, and there are even ruins of an old leper colony in the northern area of it.
Glittertind is the second highest mountain in Norway, at 2,465 m above sea level, including the glacier at its peak. It is in the municipality of Lom, in the Jotunheimen mountain area.
The Sør Rondane Mountains are a group of mountains about 100 miles long with main peaks rising to 3400 m, between the Queen Fabiola Mountains and Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land. They were discovered and photographed from the air by members of the Lars Christensen Expedition on February 6, 1937, and named after Rondane, a mountain massif in southern Norway. The mountains were mapped in greater detail in 1957 by Norwegian cartographers working with air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47.
Rondslottet is the highest mountain in the Rondane mountain range on the border of the counties of Innlandet and Vestland.
Storronden is one of the mountains in the Rondane range.
Høgronden is a mountain in Folldal, Innlandet, Norway and lies in the north east part of the mountain range Rondane.
Rondvatnet is a narrow lake in Rondane National Park. By the southern end is the Norwegian Mountain Touring Association's cabin Rondvassbu. Rondvatnet separates the eastern part of Rondane from the western part, Smiubelgen.
Midtronden is a mountain with two peaks in Dovre, Oppland, Norway. It is in the mountain range Rondane. The western peak is the highest, 2,060 m (6,759 ft), while the eastern peak is 2,042 m (6,699 ft) with a primary factor of 90 m (295 ft).
Vinjeronden is one of the ten mountains in Rondane in Norway over 2,000 metres high. It lies on the border of the three municipalities Dovre, Folldal and Sel in Innlandet county, Norway.
Gillock Glacier is a glacier 5 nautical miles (9 km) long, flowing north from Mount Walnum to the west of Smalegga Ridge, in the Sor Rondane Mountains.
Høvringen is located 1000 meters above sea level at the northern end of the Gudbrand Valley in the municipality of Sel in Innlandet county, Norway. Høvringen is the main entrance to Rondane National Park, the first national park in Norway.
Winter Night in the Mountains, also known as Winter Night in Rondane, is the name of several versions of a composition created in several techniques by the Norwegian artist Harald Sohlberg (1869–1935). The most famous version is an oil painting completed in 1914 and held by the National Gallery in Oslo since 1918.
