Iceland Road Map (Country Road & Touring): Wegenkaart 1:400 000

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The more the road is located to the center of Iceland (the coldest part of Iceland), the later it opens. I highly recommend you take F235 if you want to gain experience in driving Icelandic F-roads and enjoy the moon-like landscapes. Hekla track is a detour south from F225 (Landmannaleið), directly towards the legendary Hekla volcano. Since you wrote that you are preparing a post about it I’d like to ask a rapid piece of advice: how is F910 from Askja to Nydalur?

It’s also better to gain experience with river crossings on different, less challenging, F-roads and then come back to drive this one. One needs to plan the crossing correctly because one is able to find submerged and surfaced boulders to place the car on top of, and also deep vistas within the crossing. It’s considered at least a medium-sized river crossing and can become a bigger one when it rains a lot. Sure, in good weather you can make the last part even with 2wd, it will just take you much longer than in 4wd and you will be probably blocking many 4wds waiting behind you.We also collaborate with Icelandic car rental companies to give you a discount and us a small commission at no extra cost to you. We drove only a short section of F907 from the crossroads with Austurleid in the west to Jokuldalsvegur in the south. If you are doing a self-drive, whatever your itinerary, you will use the Ring Road a lot since it connects so many of the most popular attractions. Don’t forget to consider also connecting roads (F210 requires a big 4×4 car but F233 is even more challenging and a super jeep is recommended).

Then, you can either turn back and drive back via the neighboring Faxasund track or finish your journey towards Langisjór in the eastern direction.Driving with a small 4wd car on a difficult F-road is dangerous and, on the other hand, driving with a huge 4×4 car on an easy F-road may be expensive.

It’s also important to understand the difference between “impassable road”, “closed road” and “no winter service” roads, which we cover in our Icelandic Roads article. Another: “ The river crossings on this road are very wide (3:55) and rather wide (7:00) (the only optimal place for a crossing is where the river turns wide and hopefully shallow). Having driven the Alaskan Highway from British Columbia to Fairbanks when it was gravel and gotten drafted along the Canadian section decades ago to help fight a forest fire I appreciate the effort you have taken re F roads.Fjallabaksleið syðri is pretty long and can be divided into Western and Eastern parts (intersected by F261, Emstruleið, in the middle).