Fjallvegur
Fjallvegur , Hálendisvegur or German highland roads are roads in Iceland in the interior and other sparsely populated areas. They are also called F-streets because their street number usually starts with an F. The Icelandic Road Administration calls these roads Landsvegur .
The best known are Kaldidalur 
, Kjölur 
and Sprengisandur 
. In addition to these three Fjallvegir, Fjallabaksleið nyrðri is classified 
by the road administration as the main road in the highlands. Highland roads are rarely asphalted and actually only passable in summer. There may still be watercourses on them that need to be ford . They can only be driven on with sufficiently off-road vehicles. For travelers: The landlord determines whether rental vehicles can be entered.
Towards the end of summer, the status of these roads due to weather conditions is displayed as being impassable (Ófært) and they can then only be used under the most difficult conditions. It is then not explicitly forbidden, but a rescue by Björgunarsveitir can be very expensive. In spring, when the thaw sets in, the road administration publishes maps that mark areas that are prohibited from driving. The slopes are softened by the melting of the snow and would be damaged by vehicles. The maps appear as needed whenever something has changed in the condition of the highland roads. As an example, for 2014 there were 24 issues of these cards between May 21 and August 8. (From August 27th there were additional maps showing the closures due to the Bárðarbunga eruption .) The opening times of the various streets are between April 24th and July 24th.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ástand fjallavegar. Retrieved November 5, 2018 (Icelandic).
- ↑ Opnun_fjallvega_is_2018. Retrieved November 5, 2018 (Icelandic).
