Very Difficult
Breheimen, the Glacier Home, sits between the two most famous parks in western Norway: Jostedalsbreen to the west and Jotunheimen to the east. Established in 2009, the park covers 1,691 square kilometres of high mountain, glacier and deep valley, making it one of the largest wilderness areas in southern Norway.
The park was controversial. It was created partly to block a major hydropower scheme that would have dammed several of its rivers. The protection battle dragged on for decades before the government chose conservation over power generation. The result is an unusually intact mountain landscape with free-flowing rivers, wild reindeer herds and glacier arms that few people visit.
Breheimen is quiet compared to its famous neighbours. There are no road access points into the park interior, and the DNT cabins here see a fraction of the traffic that Jotunheimen attracts. That isolation is precisely the point: this is backcountry Norway for people who want to walk for days without seeing another group.
The park was controversial. It was created partly to block a major hydropower scheme that would have dammed several of its rivers. The protection battle dragged on for decades before the government chose conservation over power generation. The result is an unusually intact mountain landscape with free-flowing rivers, wild reindeer herds and glacier arms that few people visit.
Breheimen is quiet compared to its famous neighbours. There are no road access points into the park interior, and the DNT cabins here see a fraction of the traffic that Jotunheimen attracts. That isolation is precisely the point: this is backcountry Norway for people who want to walk for days without seeing another group.