Granrudmoen is the largest village in

Øyer Municipality Øyer is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tingberg. The two largest villages in the municipality are Granrudmoe ...

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 ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The village is located in the

Gudbrandsdal Gudbrandsdalen (; en, Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer and the lake of Mjøsa, extending toward ...

valley, along the

Gudbrandsdalslågen The Gudbrandsdalslågen (or simply ''Lågen'') is a river which flows through the Gudbrandsdal valley in Innlandet county, Norway. The long river runs through a large valley in Eastern Norway before emptying into Mjøsa, the largest lake in Nor ...

river in the southern part of the municipality. It is the commercial centre of the municipality. It is located along the European route E6 highway, about north of the town of Lillehammer. The municipal centre of

Tingberg Tingberg or Øyer is the administrative centre of Øyer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley, along the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the southern part of the municipality. It is located alon ...

is located about to the north. The village has a population (2021) of 1,678 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

of . Granrudmoen is located close to the 1994 Winter Olympic venues of

Hafjell Hafjell is a village and a ski resort in Norway, in the Øyer municipality in the county of Oppland. Hafjell hosted the alpine skiing technical events ( giant slalom and slalom) at the 1994 Winter Olympics; the speed events were held at Kvitfje ...

and

Hunderfossen Hunderfossen is a village in Lillehammer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the west shore of the Gudbrandsdalslågen river, about north of the town of Lillehammer. The small village features the Hunderfosse ...

. The local multi-sports team is

Øyer-Tretten IF Øyer-Tretten Idrettsforening is a multi-sports club from Øyer, Norway. It was founded on 29 November 1990 as a merger between Øyer IL (founded on 23 November 1913 and based in Granrudmoen) and Tretten IL (founded on 31 May 1920 and based in ...

Name

The village is named ''Granrudmoen''. The first element is the name is taken from the small ''Granrud'' farm which means 'the clearing among the spruces'. The last element of the name is ''moen'' which means 'the

moor Moor or Moors may refer to: Nature and ecology * Moorland, a habitat characterized by low-growing vegetation and acidic soils. Ethnic and religious groups * Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during ...

' or 'the

heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...

References

Øyer Villages in Innlandet Populated places on the Gudbrandsdalslågen {{Innlandet-geo-stub