Venture across fjords and glaciers, from Besseggen Ridge to the Aurlandsdalen Valley, and experience Norway's wilderness under the northern lights.
Highlights
- Dramatic fjords and glacier-carved valleys
- Wild reindeer herds and untouched wilderness in Rondane National Park
- The sight of northern lights dancing over Rondane’s rugged plateaus
- Warm hospitality and traditional Norwegian dishes
Norway Hiking Tours
Venture across fjords and glaciers, from Besseggen Ridge to the Aurlandsdalen Valley, and experience Norway's wilderness under the northern lights.
Highlights
- Dramatic fjords and glacier-carved valleys
- Wild reindeer herds and untouched wilderness in Rondane National Park
- The sight of northern lights dancing over Rondane’s rugged plateaus
- Warm hospitality and traditional Norwegian dishes
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Why Visit Norway on a Hiking Tour?
Viking heritage, tranquil fjords that carve through towering mountains, and the breathtaking northern lights culminate in Norway, the cultural heart of Scandinavia.
The rich cultural tapestry is ever-present, with welcoming mountain lodges, historic hamlets, and a deep connection to the outdoors, making this Scandinavian gem both a nature lover's paradise and a place of cultural discovery.
Hiking in Norway is a journey through some of the world's most striking landscapes, from the jagged peaks of Jotunheimen and Rondane National Parks to the serene, glacier-carved valleys of Trollheimen and Aurlandsdalen.
Each region presents unique challenges and rewards: mountainous trails with steep ascents, gentle paths alongside glacial lakes, and forested routes through valleys. The trails vary from rocky alpine terrain to moss-covered landscapes, often providing sweeping views of fjords, valleys, and dramatic cliffs.
From June to September, the long summer days and cooler evenings bring together a community of adventurers in traditional DNT mountain huts. Bonding over traditional Norwegian cuisine is the perfect way to end a day on the trails.
As amazing as it is, Norway's remote wilderness also means transportation can be limited in certain areas, often requiring a mix of buses, trains, and even boat rides to reach trailheads.
But this remoteness is part of what makes hiking here so magical – a true escape into nature's untouched realm.
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About Hiking in Norway
Norway is the one country in Europe where you are legally entitled to walk across it. Allemannsretten, the right to roam, lets you cross open country and pitch a tent almost anywhere, and it shapes how the whole network is built.
Then there is the DNT hut system, several hundred lodges strung across the mountains and stocked whether anyone is there or not. Between the two, a Norwegian range is walkable in a way an alpine one is not.
Five trips, all of them ours.
Jotunheimen Hut-to-Hut Trek, eight days over Galdhøpiggen and Glittertind, Norway’s two highest peaks.
Jotunheimen Highlights, four days from Gjendesheim for the ridge and the park around it.
Aurlandsdalen, six days at fitness 2, from Finse down the valley to the fjord.
Rondane, five days in Norway’s first national park, rounded and quiet.
Trollheimen Triangle, five days at fitness 4, the home of the trolls.
The walking season is June to September and the huts run to the same calendar, because that is when the high passes are clear of snow and the DNT staff are in place.
June brings light that barely goes out, with old snow still on the passes;
July is the warmest and the busiest, and the boats run to timetable;
August has the most settled ground and the cloudberries;
September turns the tundra red and empties the huts, but the weather turns with it.
Besseggen is the reason most people come to Jotunheimen. From Veslefjellet, Lake Gjende drops away in glacial green on one side and Bessvatnet sits a darker blue on the other, split by a rib of rock that narrows in places to the width of the path.
It is honest work: around 14 km and 1,000 m of ascent, occasionally hands-on, and DNT grades it in its most demanding tier.
Besseggen: Norway’s legendary ridge hike →
The Jotunheimen national park guide →
Norwegian huts come in three kinds and the difference matters. Staffed lodges serve dinner and sell beer. Self-service huts have bunks, firewood and a stocked larder, and you record what you take and settle up later.
Unstaffed huts have the beds and nothing else. The last two open with a standard DNT key, which is the detail that makes independent walking here possible at all.
The Aurlandsdalen walk starts at Finse, at 1,222 m the highest station on the Norwegian railway, and there is no road to it. You arrive on the Bergen line, step off the platform and start walking.
From there the valley falls away for six days to the fjord at Aurlandsvangen, which makes it the gentlest of our Norwegian routes and the easiest to reach without a car.
