Salhøa is a mountain in
Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park
Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park ( no, Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella nasjonalpark) is a National Park in Norway. It was established in 2002 to replace and enlarge the former Dovrefjell National Park which had been established in 1974. The pa ...
in
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 t ...
. The tall mountain is located on the border between the municipalities of
Sunndal in
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 the ...
county and
Lesja in
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.Salhøa is reached most easily by hiking from
Grøvudalen in the north. There are three large surrounding mountains, all within , including the tall
Grøvudalstinden
Grøvudalstinden is a mountain in Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain lies within Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, about north of the village of Lesja. The mountain is surrounded by several other mountai ...
to the west, the tall
Steinkollen to the north, and the tall
Storskrymten to the northwest.
Other nearby mountains include
Skuleggen to the east,
Drugshøi
Drugshøi is a mountain in Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain lies within the Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, about north of Dombås and about northeast of the village of Lesja. The mountains Larstinde ...
to the southeast, and
Lågvasstinden
Lågvasstinden is a mountain in Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain lies within Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, about northeast of the village of Lesja. The mountain is surrounded by several other mountai ...
to the southwest.
See also
*
List of mountains of Norway
References
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Mountains of Innlandet
Mountains of Møre og Romsdal
Sunndal
Lesja