About this business
Storsätra Mountain Hotel, known in Swedish as Storsätra Fjällhotell, holds the distinction of being Dalarna County’s first alpine hotel, opened by Margit Jonsson in 1939 in the mountain village of Grövelsjön. This remote and breathtaking location in northwestern Dalarna sits at Sweden’s southernmost alpine destination, surrounded by three national parks and an expanse of untouched wilderness that has drawn walkers, skiers, and seekers of genuine Nordic nature for more than eighty years. The founding vision of a welcoming mountain retreat in the high wilderness of Sweden has been maintained through the decades, giving Storsätra a character that balances heritage hospitality with the raw beauty of the Swedish mountain landscape.
The setting at Grövelsjön is extraordinary. The village lies at the edge of the Scandinavian mountain range where the terrain opens into high fells, ancient forests, and clear alpine streams, with the nearby southernmost Sámi village adding a dimension of indigenous cultural heritage to the landscape. The Grövlan river runs close to the hotel, and the surrounding terrain connects directly to around a hundred kilometres of prepared cross-country skiing tracks in winter and trails for hiking and fishing in the summer months. The sky is vast here, the silence is genuine, and the sense of being far from the ordinary world is complete.
Storsätra’s thirty-five rooms provide comfortable accommodation in the mountain tradition, and the hotel’s food culture is a significant part of the experience. Dinner is typically a three-course affair featuring local fish and game from the surrounding wilderness, and the daily rhythm of breakfast, packed lunches for outdoor activities, and afternoon fika in the lounge follows the natural cadence of life in a mountain landscape. The sauna and the heated bathtub beside the river complete the Nordic wellness offering, allowing guests to restore themselves after days spent in the open air.
The hotel’s reputation has been recognised with international awards. The Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards named Storsätra Private Luxury Hotel of the Year in both 2018 and 2019, following its selection as Luxury Traditional Hotel of the Year for Sweden in 2016. These distinctions reflect the rare quality of the hotel’s combination of natural setting, traditional hospitality, and genuine remoteness. For couples who want their wedding to take place somewhere profoundly different from the usual, the mountains of Grövelsjön and the warmth of Storsätra’s rooms and dining create an occasion unlike anything available in the more accessible regions of Sweden.
A wedding at Storsätra Mountain Hotel is an adventure as much as a celebration. Guests arriving from across Sweden and from abroad enter a world where nature dominates and the traditions of mountain hospitality shape every encounter. The surrounding national parks and Sámi landscape give the occasion a sense of place that is impossible to replicate elsewhere, and the intimacy of thirty-five rooms means that a wedding party can take over the entire hotel and create a celebration that feels entirely their own. For couples who have always imagined their wedding in the mountains, Storsätra offers the most Nordic and the most historic version of that dream.