Norway, Western Fjords
The Atlantic Road
Distance
36 km
Time
50m
Driving score
8.2
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Editorial
Why drive it
It is not a technical road and it does not pretend to be. What it offers is theatre: a ribbon of concrete threaded between skerries with waves breaking over the parapet when the weather turns.
Drive it twice, once each way. The Storseisundet crest hides the far side of the bridge on the approach, which is the image everyone knows, and it is better in person with spray on the windscreen.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Road width
- Two lanes, exposed on every bridge
- Surface
- Excellent, salt washed
- Best direction
- Kårvåg to Bud
- Best time of day
- Storm light in autumn, midnight sun in June
- Best season
- All year, best in September gales
- Elevation
- 23 m at the Storseisundet bridge crest
- Community rating
- 4.7 / 5
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The numbers
The journey
Route highlights
Start
Kårvåg
Coffee and a weather check
Photo Spot
Storseisundet Bridge
The bridge to nowhere
Viewpoint
Eldhusøya
Walkway over the rocks
Lunch
Håholmen
Seafood on the old fishing station
Finish
Bud
Fishing village, war museum, wind
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