Kjalvegur

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Main road 35 in the highlands of IcelandIcelandIceland 
Kjalvegur
Kjalvegur
map
Course of the Sx 35
Basic data
Operator: Vegagerðin
Start of the street: Sponge cake ( 64 ° 19 ′  N , 20 ° 8 ′  W )S35
End of street: Svínvetningabraut ( 65 ° 30 ′  N , 19 ° 53 ′  W )S731
Overall length: 167.67 km

Region (landsvæði) :

Suðurland
Norðurland vestra

Development condition: not paved
Gullfoss Hveravellir.jpg
Past: On Kjalvegur 1985 still without bridges
Course of the road
Confluence Sponge cake GullfossvegurS35
T434
Junction on the left Skjaldbreiðarvegur LF338
bridge Sandá
Junction on the left Hagavatnsvegur LF335
bridge Grjótá, ford before 1993
Junction on the left Skálpanesvegur T336
bridge Hvítá
Junction Kerlingarfjallavegur LF347Kerlingarfjöll
Junction on the left Þjófadalavegur T735Hveravellir
Junction Vesturheiðarvegur LF734
bridge Seyðisá
bridge Kúlukvísl
bridge
bridge
bridge
bridge Sandá
Blondulón
Junction Mælifellsdalsvegur L756
Blöndustöð
Confluence Svínvetnna bride S731

The Kjalvegur is a main road in the highlands of Iceland that connects the southwest with the northwest .

The highland path is also called Kjölur after a valley it crosses. At 168 km it is the second longest and middle one of the highland passages of Iceland in a north-south direction. It has had the same number as the biscuit bride since 2001 S35and its continuation north. Before 1995 it was the F37 , which LF35had the Kaldidalsvegur , which then Sx550became the. As early as the mid-1990s, the Kjalvegur was designed in such a way that you no longer have to ford waters. As for all Fjallvegir , these roads are closed in winter. It Sx35is divided into two sections and was released again between June 2nd and July 1st in recent years. The southern section to Hveravellir is often the last.

View from the Kjölur route to the Langjökull glacier shield and the Jarlhettur mountain range
After Hveravellir

course

The Kjalvegur begins next to the Gullfoss waterfall as a continuation of the biscuit bride S35 and bears the same number. It is even paved as far as the bridge over the Sandá. The river arises from the Sandvatn on the southern edge of Langjökull . The bridge over the Hvítá is 73 m long and was built in 1973. Further north, Kerlingarfjallavegur LF347(10 km) branches off to the east to Kerlingarfjöll . Here the road crosses the Kjölur valley on the edge of the Kjalhraun , between Hofsjökull in the east and Langjökull in the west. 28 km behind the Kerlingarfjallavegur the Þjófadalavegur leads T735into the thermal area of Hveravellir .

Before the Seyðisá river, Vesturheiðarvegur turns LF734east and reaches the ring road after 54 . There is now a bridge over the Seyðisá. The ford at the confluence with the Beljandi used to be the biggest obstacle on the road. Further north there are five more bodies of water before reaching the Blöndulón reservoir. Its dam and the power station were built between 1984 and 1991 and the road thus runs further west. Then the Mælifellsdalsvegur L756, also a highland road, branches off to the east and reaches L751the ring road via Skagafjarðarvegur after 87 km. Before it ends, the Kjalvegur passes the above-ground part of the Blanda power station before it S731ends at Svínvetningabraut . This reaches the ring road after 5 km to the east or after 27 km to the west near Blönduós .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Vegaskrá 2018 - kaflaskipt. Retrieved July 31, 2019 (Icelandic).
  2. Bundið slitlag á þjóðvegum 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (Icelandic).
  3. Opnun_fjallvega_is_2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019 (Icelandic).
  4. Brúaskrá bryr á þjóðvegum. Accessed July 31, 2019 (isl.).