This is one of my favorite road in Norway and was in my bucket lists for two decades.
Located in the southwestern part of Norway, Lysevegen is a very popular tourist road in the high mountains of Rogaland and Vest Agder. The road features 32 hairpin turns and a curvy narrow tunnel, impassable for 2 cars at the same time. It's not a small road; it's one of the famous hair pinned roads in the world. The road is entirely paved. Starting at Fv450, the road is 32.6 km (20.25 miles) long. It ends at Lysebotn, a small village at the eastern end of the Lysefjorden in a very isolated valley.
The road is dangerous due to its 27 sharp hairpin bends, an average gradient of 9.4%, and twists and turns on a single-track road. Drivers need to be extremely careful. It hits a maximum gradient of 16% through some of the ramps. It is a long road, twisting and turning the whole way down. People must take their time and be exceedingly careful driving this endlessly winding road.
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The road, heralded as one of the most spectacular roads in the world by dangerousroads.org users, was built as a works road during the construction of the Tjodan hydroelectric power station and was officially opened in 1984. Prior to that, boats were the only regular means of communication with the outside world for people in Lysebotn. The first road was built in 1953-64 inside the mountain, and it was used to dispose of all the removed stone masses during construction.
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