About Us
Lauvåsen – a little world of good experiences.
After spending time in the Middle East on banana, date, and grapefruit plantations, extensive travel, studies, and entrepreneurial ventures in Germany, we returned to the mountain homeland in 2024 – not as an escape, but as a home we knew existed but never quite had the chance to land in. We had built lives, started a family, and worked – but deep inside we searched for something else: a place with room for what endures.
Lauvåsen became the answer. A starting point to the Norwegian mountain homeland, surrounded by six national parks: Rondane, Jotunheimen, Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella, Reinheimen, Langsua, and Breheimen – all within reach for a day trip.
Around Lauvåsen the mountains stand steady while the rest of the world rushes on. Here nature becomes not just a backdrop, but part of the story you help to write. The mountains have stood here through all time, and the area carries many stories that connect people to the place. In the calm, the mountain and the altitude you can find your way back to the simple things – the body's rhythm, the silence between people and thoughts allowed to flow freely.
As Ibsen writes in Peer Gynt: “If you wander in heights, thought runs free.” And in Brand he reminds us that “Here is life's dwelling.”
Let the landscape become part of your story – an adventure that awakens as you take the step out into it.
“ Lauvåsen – a little world of good experiences ”
Your hosts
We took over Lauvåsen in 2024 and run the place together, with good help from family and local hands. Feel free to get in touch before you come – we are happy to help you plan your stay.
The history
From sanatorium to mountain lodge
Lauvåsen was built as a sanatorium in the 1890s, back when the altitude and the clean mountain air were the treatment itself. The buildings have since been both a guest house and a meeting place, and still carry the marks of that long history.
The place through the year
