At Atnbrua, Rv27 branches off towards Rondane and Sollia. This is the eastern entrance to the Rondane National Scenic Route, and it leads to one of Norway's most celebrated viewpoints. Five minutes up the road, at Sohlbergplassen, you see the same view that painter Harald Sohlberg saw on a skiing trip around Easter 1900: the Rondane mountains rising behind Atnsjøen lake in blue-white moonlight. It became his masterpiece, "Vinternatt i Rondane" (Winter Night in the Mountains), completed in 1914. The painting now hangs in the National Museum in Oslo and is one of the most recognised images in Norwegian art.
The junction itself has a small water mill museum, the Atnbrua Vannbruksmuseum, which tells the story of how the waterfall here powered mills and sawmills for over 250 years. Timber was floated down the Atna river, one of the many log-driving rivers in Østerdalen before trucks took over.
The junction itself has a small water mill museum, the Atnbrua Vannbruksmuseum, which tells the story of how the waterfall here powered mills and sawmills for over 250 years. Timber was floated down the Atna river, one of the many log-driving rivers in Østerdalen before trucks took over.