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Hveravellir - The main hot spring area in Reykjahverfi - Highland Iceland

on Kjölur (F35) mountain road,

Region: Highland

GPS: N64°51.965 W19°33.182

Opening Hours:
Rhe road to Hveravellir is a mountain road marked with F. Please call 1777 or visit www.road.is and www.drive.is for road conditions before you go.

About: (Description)
Hveravellir, (“Hot spring plains”) a geothermal area to the north of Kjalhraun, about 650 m above sea level, and one of the best known geothermal areas in Iceland. Many beautiful and peculiar hot springs, such as Bláhver, Öskurhólshver, Eyvindarhver, Bræðrahverir etc.

Ruins of the shelter of the 18th century outlaw Fjalla-Eyvindur are to be found near the spring Eyvindarhver, where he is said to have
boiled his meat. Memorial to the outlaw and his woman raised there in 1998. Tourist huts and other shelters, a bathing basin, and a weather report station, manned all year since 1965.

The Touring Club of Iceland built a house at Hveravellir in 1938. The house is heated with hot spring water, there is also a pool, suitable for bathing, just outside the house. There is also a new and spacious mountain lodge at Hveravellir.

How to get there:
From Gullfoss take road no. 35 over Kjölur mountain road. After about 90 km drive turn direction Hveravellir, there is a sign on the road.

Check road conditions before you go. www.road.is or telephone 1777

source Iceland Road Atlas

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