Roads beneath Snæfellsjökull

On the Snæfellsnes peninsula, there are only two roads marked with the letter F. One of them is the F570 road running through the mountains at the foot of the Snæfellsjökull glacier. It’s not particularly long and there are no river crossings. In some places, however, it becomes very steep and rocky, and even in summer it can be difficult to drive in bad weather. That’s why it stays closed for most of the year. It’s mid-May now, and the road is still impassable.

Most tourists drive around the peninsula using the main road and stopping at the best-known viewpoints. F570 leads through a completely different world. More empty, more raw, and much quieter.

You can drive very close to the glacier. Along the way, the landscape slowly changes - from moss-covered rocky ground to almost black rocky slopes with patches of snow still lying between them even in summer.