Mountain · Stavanger, Norway

Preikestolen

A flat slab 604 metres above the Lysefjord with no railing, reached by an eight-kilometre path.

Preikestolen is in Stavanger, and this is Stavanger — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 730 km across and 260 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 4–5 hours · Spring and autumn · 58.986°N, 6.190°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The Bergen and Dovre railways are two of Europe's great train rides and cost less than the equivalent flight if booked early. All of Norway →

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Stavanger · Fjord Norway · Norway

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Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

What happens here

Experiences tied to this place, and how each one is tied to it — standing on it, starting from it, or looking at it.

Preikestolen, early

Eight kilometres round on rock and boardwalk. Start before seven; by eleven there is a queue for the photograph and no railing to queue behind.

Happens here

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Norwegian Petroleum Museum

The industry that paid for modern Norway, explained more frankly than a national museum usually manages.

Museum

The record

What this atlas holds about Preikestolen, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Mountain
Give it: 4–5 hours
Season: Spring and autumn
Where: 58.986°N, 6.190°E
In: Stavanger