Møre og Romsdal, Norway · Europe
Vestnes sits on the route: 20 minutes from Tomra, 35km from Trollstigen (Troll's Path).
Vestnes is in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, with about 2,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tomra, about 9 km away.
Vestnes or Helland is the administrative centre of Vestnes Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the Tresfjorden, near where the fjord empties into the main Romsdalsfjord. The village lies along the European route E39 highway.
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(510-acre) village has a population (2024) of 2,618 and a population density of 1,259 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,260/sq mi).
The villages of Vik and Tomrefjord lie about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the southwest, the village of Tresfjord lies about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the south, and the village of Vikebukt lies directly across the Tresfjorden from Vestnes. The Tresfjord Bridge was completed in 2015, connecting Vikebukt to the southern part of Vestnes by bridge rather than an estimated 30-minute drive all the way around the fjord. The Tresfjord Bridge is part of European route E136. The prime minister, Erna Solberg was there at the opening as a stand-in for Minister of Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen.
The village of Vestnes is actually located on two peninsulas separated by the Flatevågen bay. On the eastern end of the bay, the two peninsulas almost meet, forming a 70-metre (230 ft) wide channel connecting Flatevågen with the main Tresfjorden.
The village has a shopping center, some industries, municipal services, and Vestnes Church. Vestnesavisa is the local municipal newspaper, based in Vestnes.
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Within an hour or so of Vestnes: Rampestreken Viewpoint (32 km), Trollstigen (Troll's Path) (35 km), Trollstigen Visitor Centre (35 km), Trollstigen Viewpoint Platform (35 km).
The nearest famous roads are Trollstigen (Troll's Path), Atlantic Ocean Road and Ørnesvingen (Eagle Road).
Vestnes is in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, about 9 km from Tomra.
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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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
mountain pass
Norway's famous serpentine mountain road with 11 hairpin turns
35 km · about 40 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.
35 km · about 40 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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
waterfall
A 320 m fall dropping beside the Trollstigen hairpins, crossed by a bridge halfway up the climb.
35 km · about 40 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.
37 km · about 40 min drive
bridge
The dramatically curving 'bridge to nowhere' on the Atlantic Road that seems to launch cars into the sky.
45 km · about 50 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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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