Eggedal consisting of the northwestern half of Sigdal

Sigdal

Sigdal is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Prestfoss. -Background:...

 Kommune in Buskerud

Buskerud

is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen.-Geography:...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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Location

Eggedal is located to the west of the Norefjell

Norefjell

Norefjell is a norwegian mountain range in the Scandes Mountains system. It stretches between the valleys Eggedal and Hallingdal in Norway...

 mountain range. In all other directions, the terrain rises quite steeply. There is farmland on the valley floor. The sprawling, meandering valley of Eggedal was formed by the Eggedøla River. It begins as the Haglebu river a few miles north of Lake Haglebu with top sources in the regions bordering Nes

Nes, Buskerud

Nes is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesbyen....

 and Nore and Uvdal. As it passes through Eggedal, the river is known as the Eggedøla until it reaches Lake Soneren. as it exits the lake, the name is changed to the Simoa

Simoa

Simoa is the name of a river which flows through the municipalities of Sigdal and Modum in Buskerud County, Norway.-Location:The Simoa river runs from Lake Soneren through the municipality of Sigdal in a south-easterly course until it flows into Drammenselva at Åmot in Modum...

 river.

Eggedal West Mountain (Eggedal Vestfjell) has hiking and skiing in large undisturbed natural areas. The cabin area is bordered to the south by the largest nature reserve Trillemarka

Trillemarka

Trillemarka is a nature reserve located in Buskerud, Norway. It was created on December 13, 2002 and is located in the hill- and mountain areas between Nore in Numedal and Solevann in Sigdal, partially in the municipalities of Sigdal, Nore og Uvdal and Rollag...

. These trails are in hiking country in the main from 700 and up to 1100m. The tracks are also associated with the trail at Norefjell where the highest point is 1,460 m.