Finding lanes abroad

Hi,
Hopefully next year I can get some time to get the Jimny across the water and take on some adventures abroad. Obviously here we have Trailwise2, but what do people use when going to places like Spain / Portugal or Norway?
Cheers

I've done a fair bit of trail riding in the Pyrenees, planning routes each day. The general rule is that unless there is a sign saying you can't go there, or a chain/locked gate etc, then you can. Lots of great tracks and very few people on them. Some will be very slow and bumpy in a 4x4!

That sounds ideal, cheers

Offroading is not allowed In Norway. You will get a fine up to 100 euro if you leave the road especially in the Mountains.

That said, if the track looks like a road, or is marked like a road on the official maps, it is ok.

See trans european trail and download the gpx file to your app or device.
transeurotrail.org/

I live in Norway and do a lot of overlanding.
There is so much to see and experience and discover without breaking any laws. 
Sorry for being so defensive But it is from experience. 

Please if you come to Norway see this video:


 

Thanks Yakuza, not looking to get into trouble, which is why I wanted to find an app / website that shows where I can go and not annoy people. Cheers

Viv and I went to Norway about 15 times over a period of a dozen or so years. We used a Land Cruiser and a Shogun. As Yakuza has said, there is plenty to see without breaking any rules. Just think Scotland but a whole lot grander. We only stopped because they closed the ferry service from North Shields to Bergen. We climbed as high as 1,500 meters and drove 40 miles along a dirt road to a small hotel complex that is closed in Winter. If they reopened the ferry, we would return.

Roger

I have had a look at crossings, and it will be a big drive up there!

Never got to Try the Bergen Newcastle ferry or the Bergen iceland before they closed.
But via Denmark it is still possible but costly.
Still we see a few english cars here in the summer. I live "close" to Geiranger and the Atlantic road but Try to avoid those places in the high season. Gets way too crowded for my liking.

Been around most rypical overlanding routes in the South of Norway though the years now. South West and North still to do. I would avoid the most touristy spots during high season.

Recommend the TET track as in link above, did some of it this august during a severe weather warning, and flooding. that was fun

One of the 1,500 meter dirt roads I mentioned earlier Is the climb up to the summit of Dalsnibba. A quick check on the web shows the road to be tarmaced and (presumably) safeguarded with Armco. They even have a souvenir and coffee shop up there. That's an absolute disgrace.

Roger

PS It's called the Geiranger Skywalk.

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That is one of the places I would not go to in the high season. it is on the "golden route" that includes Trollstigen as well. Just a couple of hours from where I live.. Had a Bachelors party there once, rented bikes wich was delivered on the top and biked down to Geiranger, great fun Been to Geiranger out of season many times. But we have so many other fjords and scenery here without the heavy tourism and stupid cruise vessels. 
and so many gravel roads where you see no other cars except the odd one from Holland. 
And for the Fjords, I come from one fjord out west from Geiranger. A little biased me here of course but much less tourism and same great views and ordinary people live there.
 

For the climbs the road up to Blåhø and Tron is gravel, there is no one there literally. and fantastic views and similar altitude. The special thing with Dalsnibba is that you get to see down into the Fjord, (nothing special). But then I see the fjords every day and is sitting in my office 5 m from one right now.
 

I'll have to come back to this thread when I start planning!

And something else the brochures don't mention is the pollution. When Viv and I were at Geiranger there were- from memory - 6 or so cruise ships, incl. the QE2 in the harbour and the diesel fug from all the generator plants hung over the town and stunk the place out.

Roger