Trollstigen
Trollstigen (or trollstigvegen; Template:Langx<ref>Aasen, Ivar (1850): Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog. Kristiania: Carl C. Werner</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>) is a serpentine mountain road and pass in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal County, Norway.
It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Fjord Municipality. It is a popular tourist attraction for its steep incline of 10% and eleven hairpin bends up a steep mountainside. During the peak of the tourist season, about 2,500 vehicles pass daily pass this landmark.<ref>Sunnmørsposten 26 July 2012 p. 12.</ref><ref>NRK news (accessed 21 September 2012)</ref> During the 2012 season, 161,421 vehicles traversed the route, compared to 155,230 vehicles during 2009.<ref name="Adresseavisen, 10 November 2012">Adresseavisen, 10 November 2012.</ref>
The road is narrow with many sharp bends, and although several bends were widened during 2005 to 2012,<ref>Statens vegvesen</ref> vehicles over Template:Convert long are prohibited from driving the road. During the 2011 and 2012 seasons, buses up to Template:Convert were temporarily allowed as a trial.<ref>NRK news May 28, 2011 (accessed 23 September 2012)</ref><ref>Statens vegvesen Template:Webarchive</ref> At the Template:Convert plateau are a car park and several viewing balconies overlooking the bends and the Stigfossen waterfall. Stigfossen falls Template:Convert down the mountainside. The pass has an elevation of approximately Template:Convert.
Trollstigen is closed during late autumn and winter. A normal operating season stretches from mid-May to October but is sometimes be shorter or longer because of weather conditions.
Etymology
Trollstigen means the troll path or troll trail, from the Norwegian stig<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (also spelled sti), from Old Norse stigr.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
Trollstigen was opened on 31 July 1936 by King Haakon VII after eight years of construction.
A major tourist facility including a restaurant was completed in 2012. Several viewing platforms have been constructed and older constructions improved upon. Trollstigen (along with County Road 63) was officially opened as a national tourist route by the Minister of Transport and Communications on 16 June 2012.<ref>NRK (national broadcasting news)</ref> Trollstigen itself (and the alpine summits to the west) lies within the Trollstigen landscape protection area,<ref>"Landskapsvernområde" is the lowest level legal protection of landscape http://www.lovdata.no/for/lf/mv/mv-20061124-1305.html</ref> while the alpine area east of Trollstigen, including the Trolltindene range, is part of Reinheimen National Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the summer of 2005, the road was repaired, and about 16 million Norwegian kroner was spent to protect from rockfalls and make driving on the road safer.
In June 2021, Telia Norge commissioned an eco-friendly mobile base station powered entirely by solar, wind and hydrogen to provide mobile phone coverage at Trollstigen for the first time ever.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Opening and closing dates
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| 1994 | 20 May | 27 September<ref>Sunnmørsposten, 20 May 1995</ref> | |||||
| 1995 | 25 May<ref>Sunnmøringen 24 May 1995</ref> | ||||||
| 1996 | 24 May | ||||||
| 1997 | 6 June | 24 September<ref name="NTB 15 October 1998">NTB 15 October 1998</ref> | |||||
| 1998 | 15 May | 15 October<ref name="NTB 15 October 1998"/> | closed because of snow | ||||
| 1999 | 14 May | 10 September<ref>Aftenposten, 11 September 1999, page 17.</ref> | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> early winter closing because of construction work. | |||
| 2000 | 26 May<ref>Trollstigen åpner fredag. Adresseavisen, 25 May 2000, page 4.</ref> | 20 August | closed early because of construction work<ref>Bergens Tidende, Monument i Trollstigen, 13 August 2000, page 3</ref> | ||||
| 2001 | 21 May | 21 August | closed early because of construction work<ref name="VG2001">Ubåtnett sikrer turistene. VG, 30 Juni 2011, p. 47</ref> | ||||
| 2002 | 23 May | 16 September | Early closing because of maintenance work.<ref>Trollstigen stenges. Adresseavisen, 30 August 2002, p. 2.</ref> | ||||
| 2003 | 28 May | 15 August | closed early because of landslide and flooding<ref>Adresseavisen, 21.august 2003</ref><ref>VG, 15. august 2003</ref> | ||||
| 2004 | 29 May | ||||||
| 2005 | 1 June | 15 November | latest closing since 1992 | ||||
| 2006 | 3 May | ||||||
| 2007 | 23 May | 17 October<ref>Romsdals Budstikke, 3.11.2007</ref> | |||||
| 2008 | 27 May | 4 November<ref>Åndalsnes Avis, 17. november 2011, s.4.</ref> | |||||
| 2009 | 20 May | 23 October<ref>Aftenposten 24.oktober 2009, ikke oppgitt at den ble åpnet igjen den sesongen.</ref> | closed because of avalanche | ||||
| 2010 | 28 May | 4 November<ref>Åndalsnes Avis, 17 November 2011, page 4.</ref> | |||||
| 2011 | 13 May<ref>Åndalsnes Avis, 14. mai 2011, s. 5.</ref> | 24 November<ref>Åndalsnes Avis, 26 November 2011, s. 10 ("stengt inntil videre" - "closed until further notice").</ref> | |||||
| 2012 | 1 June<ref name="Adresseavisen, 10 November 2012"/> | 5 November<ref>Adresseavisen, 10 November 2012.</ref> | |||||
| 2013 | 22 May<ref>Romsdals Budstikke på nett accessed 24 May 2013.</ref> | 13 November<ref>Åndalsnes Avis, Stengt for i år, 14 November 2013.</ref> | |||||
| 2014 | 8 May<ref>Åndalsnes Avis Rekordtidleg opning, 6 May 2014, read 5 May 2018.</ref> | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2026+2027 | 1 June | 15 August<ref name="kors"/> | roadworks |
Gallery
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Trollstigen Visitor Center
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Trollstigen visitor center, with souvenir shops and toilets
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Stigrøra with souvenir sale. In the background the rock formation Trollklørne.
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Alnesreset - the highest point on the mountain pass and municipal boundary.
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Stigfossen with Stigfossbrua seen from below.
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From Trollstigrennet around 1952 (Stein Eriksen with ski pole).
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Trollryggen mountains, located between Romsdalen and Trollstigen.
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Acception Document for Trollstigvegen in Romsdal signed by Haakon VII (31 July 1936)
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The visitor center just before the official opening (16 June 2012)
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Works on the viewing platform (2008)
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Trollstigen road signs
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Memorial stone with the text "King Håkon built this road in 1936"
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Memorial stone
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Viewpoint
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Viewpoint
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View from the platform
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View from the platform
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Viewpoint
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Viewpoint
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The river
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The river
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The river under the viewing platform
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The road down seen from the viewing platform
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Waterfall
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Traffic jam
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Traffic jam
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Trollstiggen
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Stigfossen
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Trollstiggen
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Trollstiggen near Stigfossen
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See also
- List of highest paved roads in Europe
- List of mountain passes
- List of waterfalls
- Stelvio Pass
- Transfăgărășan