Åseral Tourist Hotel
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Time for a break? We recommend stopping at Lognavatn, by the small church made by the artist Håkon Torsland. This is approximately where the Åseral Tourist Hotel was located. If you need more information about this grand building, please look at the signpost here. This area was especially popular among British tourists, who were interested in leisure fishing and hunting. The hotel, which was completed in 1891, kept open during the summer season, until mid-September. It had 45 rooms and modern amenities like hot and cold running water. “Like a centre for health and sports (i.e. fishing), this hotel is practically unmatched in Norway”, according to an article in The Fishing Gazette from 1898. The hotel had fishing huts and boats for rent in several local lakes. One of those huts is still standing by the lake Stasvatn. Unfortunately, the hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1931, and was never rebuilt.