
Þingvellir
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
Shipping & returns
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About the Þingvellir trail
Set in Þingvellir National Park, Þingvellir is a loop of 4.6 miles. Expect 164 feet of climbing between 543 feet and 626 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 10 percent, against an average of 36 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the easiest band. The nearest town is Mosfellsbær, 19 miles away.
The trail
Þingvellir (Icelandic: [ˈθiŋkˌvɛtlɪr̥] , anglicised as Thingvellir) was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland from the year 930 until the last session held at Þingvellir in 1798. Since 1881, the parliament has been located within Alþingishúsið in Iceland's capital, Reykjavík.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Tectonic plate boundarymi 3.7
- Oxarafossmi 4.5
- Öxarárfossmi 4.5
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Questions about the Þingvellir print
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Trail geometry and place names for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.