Bardodalen

Bardodalen is an inland valley of Troms, where the Barduelva runs between forested slopes and northern mountains. Sámi reindeer herders used the wider mountain country on both sides of the frontier. Around 1790 settlers from Østerdalen and Gudbrandsdalen began clearing farms in the inland valleys of Bardu and Målselv. Their arrival brought new agricultural settlements into a landscape already crossed by Sámi herding routes and shaped by seasonal movement across the mountains.