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Holmenkollen

Holmenkollen is a mountain and a neighbourhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway.

Holmenkollen
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The place

Holmenkollen is a mountain and a neighbourhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. It goes up to 500 metres (1,600 ft) above sea level and is well known for its international skiing competitions.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Holmenkollen

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Oslo

    The University of Oslo is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway.

    4 km · Norwegian public research university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holmenkollbakken

    Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill located at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120, and a capacity for 70,000 spectators.

    400 m · ski jumping hill in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sognsvann

    Sognsvann is a 3.3 km circumference lake just north of Oslo, Norway. Lying just within the greenbelt around Oslo, the lake is a popular recreational area, used as a camping, picnicking and bathing destination for the residents of Oslo during the summer, as well as a cross-country skiing, skating and ice fishing destination in the winter.

    3.9 km · lake in Norway · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bogstadvannet

    Bogstadvannet is a lake between the city of Oslo and the municipality of Bærum, Akershus, Norway. It is part of Sørkedalsvassdraget, which in turn is part of Oslomarkvassdraget.

    2.7 km · lake in Norway · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Midtstubakken

    Midtstubakken is a ski jumping hill which is part of the Holmenkollen National Arena in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of 106 metres, and a K-spot of 95 metres.

    700 m · ski jumping hill in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

    The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences Norwegian: Norges idrettshøgskole or NIH is a state-owned university college with a national directive for education and research in the sport sciences. NIH is located at Sognsvann in Kringsjå, Oslo, Norway.

    3.9 km · University in Norway · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Vestre gravlund

    Vestre Gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway. It is located next to the Borgen metro station.

    3.7 km · cemetery in Oslo · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Holmenkollen Ski Museum

    Holmenkollen Ski Museum is located at the base of the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo, Norway. The Ski Museum was founded in 1923 and is the world's oldest ski museum.

    300 m · museum in Oslo · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Voksenåsen

    Voksenåsen is a hill and neighborhood in Vestre Aker borough in Oslo, Norway.

    1.5 km · hill in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bogstad

    Bogstad Manor is a historic manor house and former estate located in the borough of Vestre Aker in Oslo, Norway. It is situated in the northwestern part of Oslo.

    2.4 km · historic manor house in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Holmenkollen

Airports
Oslo-Gardermoen (OSL), 35 km · Sandefjord, Torp (TRF), 89 km · Scandinavian Mountains (SCR), 179 km
Stations
Frognerseteren, 2.2 km · Vettakollen, 1.7 km · Kringsjå, 3.9 km · Lijordet, 3.4 km · Voksenlia, 900 m
  • Sandefjord(Torp) → Holmenkollen
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · kr120–165
  • Kristiansand(Kjevik) → Holmenkollen
    5 km · quickest by road, 45 min · kr20–26
  • Bergen → Holmenkollen
    299 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · kr1,470–2,260
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Holmenkollen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Holmenkollen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBus 30 goes to destinations at the Bygdøy Peninsula, alternatively you can take the ferry .

From Wikivoyage: Oslo/West, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    451 km
  2. 02
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    515 km
  3. 03
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    561 km
  4. 04
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    594 km
  5. 05623 km

If you know how people move in Holmenkollen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Holmenkollen

Holmenkollen is 7 km from Oslo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.