Arnebergbua Retreat – Off-Grid Valdres

The road ends here. What begins is lake shore, open mountain terrain, and the kind of quiet most people have to travel a long way to find.

Arnebergbua Retreat is a log cabin compound on the shore of Lake Fullsenn in Øystre Slidre, Valdres. The full property sleeps up to six across three bedrooms, and is yours alone. The main cabin has a well-equipped kitchen, a comfortable living room with a stone fireplace, and two bedrooms. Arnebergbua – the old fishing cabin – sits beside it as a third sleeping unit with its own stove and coffee corner.

There is no mains electricity and no running water, but solar power, a wood stove for heating water, a rowing boat and canoe at the shore, and complete privacy. The property sits inside a landscape conservation area with active mountain summer farms nearby.

Days here tend to organise themselves.