Halden → Elverum
Halden → Elverum · Border road · Fv21 + Rv2
The quiet way north along the Swedish border: lakes, endless forest and Finnskogen, from Halden to Elverum.
Passes through 10 municipalities
About the drive
Along the way
- Adventure & sports — Aremark, Marker, Aurskog-Høland
- Sámi & minority cultures — Grue, Åsnes, Våler
- History — Halden, Elverum
- Quiet & remote — Aremark, Våler
- Lakes — Aremark, Marker
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Stops along the route
- Halden
Fredriksten fortress, where Sweden's Charles XII fell in 1718, the Brekke locks on the Halden Canal, and the Gjellestad Viking ship mound.
- Aremark
The Strømsfoss lock on the Halden Canal, canoe water on Aremarksjøen, and quiet forest running right up to the Swedish border.
- Marker
The Ørje locks, lifting boats 10.6 metres between two lakes on the Halden Canal, the canal museum at Ørje Bruk, and early-1900s border forts.
- Aurskog-Høland
Cycle the loop around Rømsjøen to the Swedish border, past Rømskog church on its headland, a 1753 border stone and the 1860 Trosterud school museum.
- Eidskog
Magnor's working glassworks and Morokulien, where a 1914 granite peace monument straddles the Norway–Sweden border.
- Kongsvinger
Kongsvinger fortress above the Glomma rapids, the old wooden houses of Øvrebyen and a women's history museum in Dagny Juel's childhood home.
- Grue
Svullrya's Forest Finn Museum, the preserved Finn croft at Hytjanstorpet, and Grue church, rebuilt after Norway's worst church fire in 1822.
- Åsnes
A giant timber road bridge over the Glomma at Flisa, and Forest Finn farmsteads at Tyskeberget and Furuberget deep in Finnskogen.