Scenic Route Geiranger-Trollstigen

Steep mountainsides and blue-green fjords make Geiranger and the Trollstigen Road national icons.

Geiranger - Trollstigen is a road through west Norwegian nature at its most powerful, with a dizzying view of sheer mountainsides, deep fjords and fertile valleys. Since the childhood of tourism, Geiranger and Trollstigen have been visited by tourists from all over the world. The travel industry has been benefitting from the fjord and the road for generations.

Trollstigen has been a magnet for tourists since the road opened in 1936. We can thank the skills of engineers and road builders that we are able to drive up these steep mountainsides from Trollstigfoten to Stigrøra. They also set their mark on Geiranger, where Ørnevegen, Geirangervegen and the road to Dalsnibba offer some elevating drives to unique viewpoints.

At Stigrøra, some bold new architecture will leave a mark of our own times in the building of viewing ramps spanning thin air above Trollstigen. Elsewhere on the tourist route, Gudbrandsjuvet, Ørnesvingen and Flydalsjuvet are stopping points offering an exciting interplay between unique nature and creative architecture.

Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord represent the fjord landscape of west Norway on UNESCO's World Heritage List. During the brief months of summer, an international swarm of cruise ships float like white palaces on the fjord. But the ancient nature and the paths up to the area's high pastures and mountains bring peace to those who keep their feet on the ground.
 

Attractions

• Trollstigen: The largest viewing platform juts out over a ledge to hover 200 metres above the Trollstigen road that snakes up the steep mountainside. The platform has various viewing points suitable for both the bold and the cautious visitor.  
• Gudbrandsjuvet: The viewing point at Gudbrandsjuvet gorge is beautifully located in the Valldalen valley, with precipitous mountainsides, the river and the gorge at close range. Over millennia, the Valldøla River has cut large potholes and intricate formations into the rock. 
• Juvet: The Juvet Landscape Hotel lies in Valldal. It is built as nine small, detached rooms, all different and adapted to the landscape. Walls made totally of glass facing the river and the birch forest erase the distinction between outdoors and indoors. 
• Linge fergekai: The ferry quay has an airy waiting room with bays and large windows looking out over the fjord, as well as its own orchard. 
• Ørnesvingen: Ørnesvingen viewing point has its own waterfall. From here the view opens towards Geiranger, across the Geirangerfjord with its near-perpendicular mountainsides, the “Seven Sisters” waterfalls and the Knivsflå mountain hamlet. 
• Flydalsjuvet: This rest area lies near the steep mountainside at the inner end of the Geirangerfjord and is one of many locations that offer spectacular vistas over the fjord. 

Norwegian Scenic Route Geiranger - Trollstigen runs between Langevatn on Strynefjell and Sogge bridge in Romsdal and is 106 kilometres long. RV63.

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