North European travel guide
self-guided road-trips
Follow Norway’s main highway through the central part of the country and across the Arctic Circle.Â
Free interactive Google Map (with every place mentioned in the guide marked with an address) that can be loaded into your GPS, making finding that stave church or petrol station much easier.
Detailed overviews of all the major points of interest on the road.
Practical information (cafes, dining, museums, toilets, petrol, road-side rest areas, detours, alternate routes)
Historic, modern and practical information for every city, town, village, and farm you pass through
Modern and historic images of all the major points of interests
Distance between points (in kilometres and miles)
QR code & interactive links to museum websites, relevant pages on our website, ferry timetables, and more!
This guide is 24 pages and comes in a PDF format.Â
Look, I’ll be honest. This is not the most exciting road in Norway. There are some highlights (Mosjøen, Saltfjellet National Park, the approach to Narvik), but for the most part you will be driving through a forested area. But this is the E6 – the main highway through Norway – and it is an important connection between north and south. So maybe you just need to get from A to B. Completely understandable. Parts of the highway (around Fauske) have an interesting history as they were built by prisoners of war during World War II when the Nazis had an ambitious plan to build a road and rail network from Trondheim to Tromsø. Look out for lots of history in that region.
897km / 557 miles
Trondheim
Narvik
This drive can easily be done in either direction.
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Example of what the guide looks like.Â
An interactive version of this map is available upon purchase.
I drove from Mo i Rana to Trondheim back in 2021. Enjoy the drive!