{"id":31546,"date":"2025-06-16T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/?p=31546"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:06:38","slug":"the-hidden-gravel-highway-out-of-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/en\/the-hidden-gravel-highway-out-of-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Gravel Highway Out of Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived in Oslo for years. Long enough to know that escaping the city by bike usually involves a frustrating mix of tarmac, traffic lights, clumsy junctions, and cycling signs that seem designed to get you lost. Over time, I\u2019ve taken countless routes out of town, each one promising something different but delivering much of the same, concrete and confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"J7Zv8x5SQHUTKgtq140GfcuP6WijokRzCLmyphn23XeEOdrFNAYlwBDa\"><iframe title=\"Escaping Oslo: The Medieval Gravel Highway You Won\u2019t Believe Exists\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sa8zCGIkGB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That changed this year. I started paying closer attention to the gravel roads that skirt the edges of the city. Most riders know the ones that take you deep into Nordmarka, the vast northern forest that\u2019s long been Oslo\u2019s green escape. But I wasn\u2019t looking north. I was looking west, towards the fjords, the mountains, the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s when I discovered Ankerveien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1506691966460-1024x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1506691966460-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1506691966460-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1506691966460-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1506691966460-1536x942.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1506691966460.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: KARL BRAANAAS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Built in the 1790s by Peder Anker, an ambitious industrialist who needed a road to link his ironworks and sawmills, Ankerveien now sits quietly beneath the trees, a relic of another age that\u2019s been carefully preserved. What was once a supply route is now a gravel path stretching some 20 kilometres, winding its way past ancient woodland and open farmland, not touched by traffic. It doesn\u2019t scream for attention. In typical Norwegian fashion, it just exists, humble, practical, beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"31552\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_154451.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_154451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_154451-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_154451-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"31542\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_155949-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_155949-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_155949-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250529_155949-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Few people seem to realise what a gift this road is. It\u2019s not just a hiking trail or a pleasant Sunday loop. It\u2019s a secret gravel highway that lets you glide west out of Oslo with barely a trace of the city at your heels. The route begins in the north, brushing close to the edge of the city, before drifting quietly down to Sandvika, a suburb on Oslo\u2019s western edge. From there, you thread through a short stretch of asphalt and suburban sprawl until the noise disappears again, replaced by birdsong and crunching tyres as you enter the forest of Vestmarka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_174709.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_174709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_174709-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_174709-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vestmarka is wilder and less forgiving than Nordmarka. It has fewer gravel roads, and if you don\u2019t plan your route properly, you\u2019ll hit a dead end fast. But this difficulty brings solitude. It\u2019s not a place people stumble across. Once you\u2019re inside, it\u2019s all yours. Five kilometres from Oslo and yet you\u2019re deep in a Nordic forest, alone and alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After weaving through Vestmarka, the land opens up. A small village gives you a chance to refill your bottles and breathe before the next challenge: Finnemarka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_180710.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_180710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_180710-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_180710-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finnemarka is a beast \u2013 three times the size of Vestmarka and around 30 kilometres wide. This is where you settle in. The rhythm changes. You\u2019ll pass still lakes, dense pine, the occasional e-cyclist, and some of the best wild camping spots in southern Norway. It\u2019s around this point, maybe 90 minutes and 40 kilometres in, that it hits you: you\u2019ve left Oslo behind. Completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_194341.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_194341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_194341-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_194341-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The gravel eventually drops you into \u00c5mot, a quiet town tucked into the landscape, and that\u2019s where the real decision begins. Where next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"31549\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_180914.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31549\"\/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"31550\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_193400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_193400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_193400-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250516_193400-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can turn north and follow <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/en\/routes\/national-cycle-routes\/route-5\/middelalderdalen-mjolkevegen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>National Route 5<\/strong><\/a>, east to <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/en\/routes\/national-cycle-routes\/route-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>Route 4<\/strong><\/a>, or back southeast on <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/en\/routes\/national-cycle-routes\/route-2\/telemark-canal-route\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>Route 2<\/strong><\/a>. But if you&#8217;re following Cycle Norway, there&#8217;s a different option. You keep going. Into the deep forests. Onto nameless trails. Into the county of Telemark, where the gravel gets rougher and the silence gets louder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norway could well be the gravel capital of the world. But that\u2019s a story for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/routes\/51309577?privacy_code=tZf1wRa3JTfM0gPrESvwN4RDFBzmplMc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><div class=\"theme-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-15.30.18-1024x673.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-15.30.18-1024x673.png 1024w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-15.30.18-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-15.30.18-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-15.30.18-1536x1010.png 1536w, https:\/\/cyclenorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-at-15.30.18.png 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived in Oslo for years. 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