Scenic routes

An Arctic island edge where white-sand beaches meet open ocean and, in season, whales and the midnight sun.

A ribbon of bridges that hops island to island straight across the open Atlantic, Norway's most photographed drive.

The 'Snow Road' over a high bare plateau, with the Stegastein viewpoint hanging out over the Aurlandsfjord.

A narrow 19th-century mountain road of dry-stone walls and glacier light, barely changed in a century.

A waterfall valley and a switchback climb to the 'Utsikten' viewpoint poised between fjord and plateau.

Two of Norway's headline drives in one: the Eagle Road above Geiranger and the eleven hairpins of Trollstigen.

Orchard-lined fjord shores, the thundering Vøringsfossen and a stepped viewpoint into the gorge.

A treeless drive to the edge of the Arctic Ocean through reindeer country and sculptural rest stops.

Island-hopping by ferry past the Seven Sisters massif toward the Arctic Circle and the Svartisen glacier.

The southern skerries, fishing villages, sea bridges and the strange holed mountain of Torghatten.

Norway's flat, wind-blown surf coast, long sand beaches, stone walls and historic lighthouses.

Granite spires plunging into turquoise water, red rorbu cabins and beaches that look tropical until you touch the water.

High open moorland beneath Norway's oldest national park, with a viewpoint built around a famous painting.

Deep fjords behind Preikestolen country, waterfalls, orchards and a sculpted bridge over a salmon river.

Norway's second-largest island in miniature, sharp peaks, fishing coves and viewpoints over the open sea.

Northern Europe's highest mountain pass road, threading between the glaciers of Jotunheimen at 1,434 m.

An airy plateau crossing on the edge of Jotunheimen, with a glacier-fed lake and a sculpted rest stop.

Arctic-tundra birding country at Norway's far northeast, ending at a Zumthor-and-Bourgeois memorial in Vardø.

Twenty-seven hairpins and a spiral tunnel climbing from the Lysefjord up to the Kjerag trailhead.

Eleven hairpins climbing 620 m above the Geirangerfjord to the famous Eagle Bend viewpoint.

The quiet, steep-walled 'anti-Geiranger' fjord, narrow lanes between the Sunnmøre Alps and the water.

A wild toll-gravel mountain road past Mardalsfossen, one of Norway's tallest waterfalls.

An easy coastal drive south of Oslo to 'the End of the World', smooth rocks, skerries and a tipping-beacon lighthouse.

One of Norway's narrowest, most dramatic valleys, linking Hellesylt to the Hjørundfjord.

Along the turquoise Lovatnet to the Kjenndalsbreen glacier arm, a glacier valley with a tragic past.

A green glacier valley from Olden up to the Briksdalsbreen arm of the Jostedalsbreen ice cap.

A high toll road between Øvre Årdal and Turtagrø with front-row views of the Hurrungane peaks.

A lonely high-moor crossing between Sirdal and Setesdal, in the heart of Kjerag country.

A panoramic toll mountain road across the moors that inspired Ibsen's Peer Gynt.

A fjord-to-mountain crossing from Vik on the Sognefjord over a high plateau toward Voss.

An exposed Arctic mountain crossing on the E6, Sami reindeer country and a prime aurora road.