Vågåmo is the administrative centre of Vågå

Vågå

Vågå is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vågåmo....

 municipality, in Oppland

Oppland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....

 county. Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Its population (SSB

Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norwegian statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1,000, Statistics Norway publish about 1,000 new statistical releases every year on its web site. All releases are published both in Norwegian and English...

 2005) is 1,463. The village is located at the outlet of Lake Vågåvatn

Vågåvatn

The Vågåvatn lake is located in Lom and Vågå municipalities, Oppland county, Norway. The river Otta, which begins in Skjåk municipality, flows into lake Vågåvatn...

 in the Otta valley. The Otta River

Otta River

The Otta river flows through the Ottadal valley in the municipalities of Skjåk, Lom, Vågå and Sel in Norway.The river Otta begins in Skjåk municipality and flows into lake Vågåvatn...

and Highway 15 pass through the village.

Vågåmo is home to a local museum, the Jutulheimen Bygdemuseum, and to the historical Klones farm which is also the location of the Nord-Gudbrandsdalens videregående skole (North Gudbrandsdal Highschool) which specializes in agriculture. The Klones farm dates back to the 15th century and has been the location of the school since 1919. In Vågåmo there are plenty of parties every day and night, so there is always something to do there. There are also many horses and a store named Jutulbue there.