The Birch Avenue

From the Verdal Chapel, we set off on our journey to the Stiklestad Church – where Grandma Lena was baptized and confirmed.

To get there, we drove a paved road lined with birches and bordered by a pedestrian path, which locals refer to as "Bjørkealleen" – the longest birch avenue in Northern Europe.

Groundwork for this wonder began more than two hundred years ago under the direction of officer and architect Lorentz Diderich Kluwer. At the turn of the 20th century, locals opted to redesign and plant only birch trees along the avenue, which then became affectionately referred to as Norway's Champ’s Elysees.


As we drove the three-kilometer route, we watched people rollerblade, bike and walk The Birch Avenue.