AT A GLANCE
Why go?
Børsjøen is a small, forest-ringed trout lake set at 355 metres in northern Selbu, in the Trøndelag uplands of central Norway. Barely a square kilometre across and fed by thin mountain burns, it has the still, secluded feel of a backwoods tarn rather than a grand reservoir — a place that draws anglers, cyclists and quiet-nature seekers instead of tour buses.↗↗
Its appeal is simple and honest: a healthy wild-trout population you can fish from a boat (with the local card), open fishing huts on the shore, a toll road that runs right up to the east bank, and its position as a high point on the Børsjørunden, a marked mountain-biking loop out of the village of Innbygda.↗↗
A quiet lake in the Selbu woods
Locals spell it Børsjøen (the "Borsjoen" on the map is the same name without the Norwegian letters), and the place-name authorities log it simply as a lake — a "vatn" — sitting between three low ridges, Børsjøåsen, Litjberget and Salåsen. With a modest catchment and no dramatic inlet, the water reads as calm and intimate, the kind of forest tarn where the loudest sounds are wind in the spruce and a rising trout. It drains eastwards through the little stream Børåa and onward into the Garbergselva, part of the great Nea–Nidelva watercourse that makes this corner of Norway a renowned trout country.
