Hurdal
Hurdal is a municipality in Viken county, Norway.  It is part of the traditional region of Romerike.  The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hurdal.

Hurdal is located about  north of Oslo, along the lake Hurdalsjøen. Fjellsjøkampen is the highest hill in Akershus. About 5 km north of the administrative centre, Hurdal, is the Hurdal Ski Centre.

General information

Name
The name (Old Norse: Urðardalr and Hurðardalr) is an old district name. (The name of the church site is Gjøing.) The first element is the genitive case of an old river name (later called Gjøingelva which means "Gjøing river"), probably Urð which means "stony river" (from urð which means "scree").  (The sideform Hurðardalr has an addition of a false /h/.)  The last element is dalr meaning "valley" or "dale".  Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Hurdalen".

Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times.  They were granted in 1988.   The arms are green with a yellow-colored cone from a Norway Spruce tree (Picea abies).

History
The parish of Hurdalen was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The new municipality of Feiring was separated from Hurdal on 1 January 1870.

Attractions
 Holy Trifon Skete, an Eastern Orthodox monastery of Orthodox church in Norway (Saint Nicolas commune). The monastery was established in 1985.

Notable residents
Tore Ruud Hofstad (born 1979) - cross country skier
Henning Stensrud (born 1977) - Ski jumper
Robert Sørlie (born 1958) - dog sled racer and winner of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2003 and 2005