Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights & Activities
Gruvemuseum MUSEUM
( nordlandsmuseet.no/en/sulitjelma-gruvemuseum ; adult/child Nkr50/10;
11am-5pm daily mid-
Jun-mid-Aug)
Alongside the fjord, the Sulitjelma Mining Museum records the area's 100 years of mining
history and displays some awesome rusting equipment.
Besøksgruve MINE
(Sulitjelma Show Mine; 75 50 35 18; nordlandsmuseet.no/en/sulitjelma-besoksgruve ; adult/child
Nkr200/50; by appointment)
A one-hour guided tour of the Besøksgruve includes a 1.5km rail ride deep into the moun-
tain. Advance reservations are essential.
Rago National Park
The small (171-sq-km), scarcely visited Rago National Park is a rugged chunk of forested
granite mountain and moorland, riven with deep glacial cracks and capped by great ice-
fields. Rago, together with the large adjoining Swedish parks, Pakjelanta, Sarek and Stora
Sjöfjallet, belongs to a wider protected area of 5500 sq km. Wildlife includes not only
beavers in the deep Laksåga (aka Nordfjord) river valley, but also wolverines in the higher
areas. Along the relatively lush Storskogdalen valley, a series of foaming cascades and
spectacular waterfalls tumble.
From the main trailhead at Lakshol, it's a three-hour, 7km walk up the valley to the free
Storskogvasshytta and Ragohytta huts, then a stiff climb up and over the ridge into
Sweden to connect with the well-established trail system over the border.
Maps to use are Sisovatnet, at 1:50,000, or Sørfold, at 1:75,000. To reach Lakshol, turn
east off the E6 at the Trengsel bridge and continue about 6km to the end of the road.
 
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