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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.
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 ...
County Road 44 (Norwegian: Fylkesvei 44) is a county road which runs from the town of Flekkefjord in Agder county to the city of Stavanger in Rogaland county. The section of the road between Søyland and Ogna in the municipality of Hå has, together with almost all of County Road 507, been designated as National Tourist Routes for the landscape of Jæren. [1]
All pre-2010 national roads have an asphalt concrete cover. Exceptions are some roads that have been given special status or protection. The "gravel roads package" was a governmental plan which ensured that all national roads without special importance in the National Protection Plan for Roads, Bridges, and Road-Related Cultural Heritage (Nasjonal verneplan for veger, bruer og vegrelaterte ...
In 2009, the road was Norway's ninth-most-visited natural tourist attraction, with 258,654 visitors from May through August. [12] The route won the title "Norwegian Construction of the Century", awarded by the Norwegian construction industry in 2005. [13] In 2006, The Guardian declared it the world's best road trip. [2]
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 ...
Norwegian County Road 63 (Norwegian: Fylkesvei 63 or Fv63) is a Norwegian county road in Møre og Romsdal county and a very small part in Innlandet county, Norway.It begins at Norwegian National Road 15 along the lake Langvatnet in Skjåk Municipality in Innlandet county and it heads north where it ends at the junction with the European route E136 highway near the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma ...