City to city
Any route across Norway is scenic. The Hardanger and Aurland versions are the ones people remember.
Direct route
229.9 mi
Scenic route
577.9 mi
Days to enjoy it
3 days
Great roads on route
7
Checked by the Drivers Atlas desk
Scored and written by the Drivers Atlas editorial desk, drawing on driven routes across the UK and Europe, mapping data and member road reports. Distances are planning estimates. The road list is drawn from the scored Atlas library inside this corridor. How we score roads.
Last reviewed 23 March 2026
The detour
The fast way
Motorway and trunk road for most of it, one fuel stop, nothing you will remember. Useful when the drive is a means to an end.
The good way
About 10 hr 53 min of that is spent on the great roads themselves, which is where the whole difference lies.
On the way
01 · Norway
Twenty seven hairpins drop 900 metres to the head of the Lysefjord.
18.6 mi · Rating 9.6 / 10
02 · Norway
Northern Europe's highest mountain crossing, a bare stone plateau between glaciers.
67.1 mi · Rating 9.5 / 10
03 · Norway
Thirteen hairpins at one in five between two waterfalls, the steepest road in northern Europe.
0.9 mi · Rating 9.3 / 10
04 · Norway
A high plateau road across bare tundra ending at a stark concrete lookout above the fjord.
29.2 mi · Rating 9.3 / 10
05 · Norway
A fast open highland run under the Jotunheimen peaks with almost no traffic.
31.1 mi · Rating 9.1 / 10
06 · Norway
Europe's largest mountain plateau crossed by a road with no trees and no traffic.
59 mi · Rating 9 / 10
07 · Norway
A scenic tourist route climbing past waterfalls and glacial lakes between two fjord towns.
39.1 mi · Rating 8.9 / 10