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In 2009, the road was Norway's ninth-most-visited natural tourist attraction, with 258,654 visitors from May through August. [11] The route won the title "Norwegian Construction of the Century", awarded by the Norwegian construction industry in 2005. [12] In 2006, The Guardian declared it the world's best road trip. [1]
One of Norway's more famous roads is reopening after feet of snowfall caused it to be shut down for the winter. Trollstigen, known as the "golden route," is one of Norway's most scenic drives ...
The following is a list of National Tourist Routes in Norway that have officially opened or have been approved and are under upgrade. [4] It contains the name of the road, the start and finish locations of the route, the county or counties the route runs through, the road numbers the route follows, the length of the road and a description.
In 1931, signposted numbers for national roads were introduced. The main roads were two digits ending with zero, for example Road 50 Oslo–Kirkenes. The main roads in Østfold were numbered 1–9 based on an older local system. In 1965, a new system which included E-roads was introduced, and most of it is still used today (2019).
County Road 55 (Norwegian: Fylkesvei 55) is a 248.1-kilometer-long (154.2 mi) highway which runs between the municipalities of Lom and Høyanger in Norway. The 108-kilometer (67 mi) section across Sognefjellet, known as Sognefjellsvegen, is designated a National Tourist Route. [1] [2] Also a short section at Balestrand is a National Tourist Route.
The bridge is the only road crossing of the Trondheimsfjord, and is located along Norwegian County Road 755. The bridge has a span of 530 metres (1,739 ft), making it the longest of its type in the world for two years. The two 152-metre (499 ft) tall pylons are located at Kjerringvik on the west side, and at Vangshylla on the east side.
The Blue Highway follows the ancient waterways from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Onega.There are numerous lakes and rivers by the road. Vast areas of taiga forest dominate the landscape, [3] and a section of the Scandinavian Mountains in Norway and western Sweden.
Norwegian National Road 9 (Norwegian: Riksvei 9, Rv9) is often called the Setesdal Road (Norwegian: Setesdalsveien) and it is the main thoroughfare through the Setesdalen valley. It runs from the city of Kristiansand in the southern coast of Norway , through the Torridal and Setesdal valleys in Agder county to Haukeligrend in Telemark county in ...