In June we had a very special visitor from Canada come to stay with us and we did all sorts of things, including visit the palace park. This year the Queen and King are celebrating their 25th year as reigning monarchs and the palace park was turned into "The Jubilee Park" for the festivities. Turns out the Queen is a huge supporter of DNT and the Jubilee Park featured not one but two DNT cabins! (These will be the easiest cabins I ever visit...)

The older of the two cabins, Hovinkoia, opened in 1937. It was DNT's 5th unstaffed cabin, and their first forest cabin equipped for "self-catering". This style of cabin became popular with DNT in the 50's but at the time Hovinkoia was built nearly all of DNT's cabins were staffed lodges and small stone mountain cabins. I'd say now the opposite is true and the majority of cabins are unstaffed "self-serve" cabins.


Before it was moved to the Jubilee Park, Hovinkoia lived about 2 hours north-west of Oslo. Now that the summer is over, the cabin will retire at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and in few years a new cabin will open in its original spot.

The other cabin that was in the Jubilee Park was super modern and even though we've already seen it we may have to make a point to check it out in the wilderness because it looks amazing. More to come!

Update (September 20/16)
In case you're wondering what's involved in moving a cabin, I was at the palace this evening and it looks like it's a pretty big ordeal!

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