Innfjorden is a village in

Rauma Municipality Rauma is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre is the town of Åndalsnes. Other settlements in Rauma include the villages of Måndalen, Innfjorden, Veblu ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is t ...

county,

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. It is situated about southwest of the town of

Åndalsnes is a town in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Åndalsnes is in the administrative center of Rauma Municipality. It is located along the Isfjorden, at the mouth of the river Rauma, at the north end of the Romsdalen valley. ...

and southeast of the village of

Måndalen Måndalen or Voll is a village in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located along the Romsdalsfjorden about west of the town of Åndalsnes. The European route E136 highway goes through Voll, connecting it to ...

along the

European Route E136 European route E 136 is a European highway located entirely in Møre og Romsdal and Innlandet counties in Norway. The highway begins in the town of Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal county on the west coast of Norway, and it goes east up through ...

highway. The road from Åndalsnes to Innfjorden goes through the long Innfjord Tunnel, which opened in 1991 after a series of deaths caused by

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s on the former road along the shore of Romsdal Fjord. The village has a population (2018) of 280 and a

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of . The local economy is mainly based on

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, while there is some industry and a few service companies relating to

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, transportation, and road safety. In addition there is an elementary school, kindergarten, and the small Innfjorden Chapel. Surrounding Innfjorden are tall peaks on the east, south, and west sides with Romsdal Fjord to the north. The area is frequented by mountain hikers and lately a lot of BASE jumpers have discovered the mountains around Innfjorden.

References

Rauma, Norway Villages in Møre og Romsdal {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub