Stakkvik – Bakketun
Stakkvik → Bakketun · Karlsøy, Troms, Norway
- Unpaved
- 29.9 km
- Elevation
- 18 m
- Surface
- Gravel
- Season
- Open all year in principle — an Arctic coast road, so the weather decides
The longest unbroken unpaved stretch in the whole Norwegian county road network — 29.9 km — and it runs at sea level near 70°N.
Everything else on this list climbs. This one does not. It follows the water on an Arctic island where the sun does not set in June and does not rise in December.
May I actually drive it?
Yes. Fv 7908 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
- nvdbapiles.atlas.vegvesen.no
- Photo: Leonhard Lenz · CC0
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.
