Follafoss to Steinkjer
Follafoss → Steinkjer · Steinkjer, Trøndelag, Norway
- Unpaved
- 24.9 km
- Elevation
- 278 m
- Surface
- Gravel
- Season
- Summer and autumn — a plateau crossing, not a valley road
It starts at a pulp mill on the fjord, climbs to 433 m, drops, climbs higher again, and only then comes down. The longest unpaved county road we have not filmed yet.
Follafoss has made wood pulp since 1909 and had its own power station from 1923. Twelve kilometres away the iron mine at Malm ran for 83 years. The road leaves all of that behind within a mile and does not meet it again.
May I actually drive it?
Yes. Fv 6330 is a public road with an owner and published closures — not a track across open land, which is banned or tightly restricted in most of western and northern Europe. Obey the signs at the barrier: a road that is open in August can be shut in October, and the dates are decided locally each year.
Plan a trip around it
Open the planner on these two points and it draws the real road, day by day, with somewhere to sleep and what it costs.
Open in the plannerSources
- snl.no
- steinkjerleksikonet.no
- Photo: Statkraft · CC BY 2.0
Lengths and surfaces for the Norwegian roads are queried from Nasjonal vegdatabank, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration's own database. Elevation is sampled at the midpoint of the unpaved section — it is not the high point. Opening dates depend on snow and are decided locally each year, so check before you go.
