Møre og Romsdal, Norway · Europe
Åndalsnes works well as a base: 30 minutes from Hjelset, 12km from Trollstigen (Troll's Path).
Åndalsnes is in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, with about 2,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Hjelset, about 26 km away.
is a town in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Åndalsnes is also the administrative center of Rauma Municipality. It is located along the Isfjorden, at the mouth of the river Rauma, at the north end of the Romsdalen valley. The village of Isfjorden lies about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the east,Read more
Veblungsnes lies just to the west across the Rauma river, and the village of Innfjorden lies about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the southwest via the European Route E136 highway.
The 2.16-square-kilometre (530-acre) town has a population (2024) of 2,483 and a population density of 1,150 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,000/sq mi).
Åndalsnes has an association football club, Åndalsnes IF. The local church is Grytten Church, but its actually located across the river in Veblungsnes. The harbour is called "Tindekaia", and is visited every year by many cruise ships.
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Within an hour or so of Åndalsnes: Rampestreken Viewpoint (1 km), Trollveggen (Troll Wall) (10 km), Trollstigen (Troll's Path) (12 km), Trollstigen Viewpoint Platform (12 km).
The nearest famous roads are Trollstigen (Troll's Path), Atlantic Ocean Road and Ørnesvingen (Eagle Road).
Åndalsnes is in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, about 26 km from Hjelset.
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scenic viewpoint
Cantilevered steel platform jutting out 537 m above Åndalsnes, with vertigo-inducing views over the town, the Rauma valley and the Romsdal Alps; reached by trail or the Romsdalen gondola.
1 km · about 5 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Europe's tallest vertical rock face, a 1,100 m wall of granite towering over the E136 through Romsdalen: a jaw-dropping roadside stop with a visitor centre at its foot.
10 km · about 20 min drive
mountain pass
Norway's famous serpentine mountain road with 11 hairpin turns
12 km · about 25 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A cantilevered glass-and-steel viewing platform jutting out over Norway's famous Troll's Road with its eleven hairpin bends and cascading waterfall.
12 km · about 25 min drive
waterfall
A 320 m fall dropping beside the Trollstigen hairpins, crossed by a bridge halfway up the climb.
12 km · about 25 min drive
cafe
A stunning cantilevered viewpoint cafe perched above Norway's famous Troll's Path, offering vertigo-inducing views of the switchback road below.
13 km · about 25 min drive
waterfall
One of Europe's highest waterfalls at 655 m, thundering into the Eikesdalen valley: the regulated falls are released each summer, when the drive up lake Eikesdalsvatnet ends at their misty base.
25 km · about 30 min drive
cafe
A roadside cafe along Norway's Atlantic Ocean Road, one of the world's most spectacular coastal driving routes with bridges leaping between storm-battered islands.
53 km · about 60 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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