The Laugavegur crosses 53 km of the Icelandic interior, from the steaming ground at Landmannalaugar over rhyolite hills to the green valley of Thorsmork. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The preview on screen is the finished poster, and it ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The name means hot spring route, laug for spring and vegur for way, and the trail earns it at both ends: Landmannalaugar's rhyolite hills run pink, green, yellow and purple with dissolved minerals, and a stream there mixes geothermal heat with glacial melt to a bathing temperature most walkers stop for before the climb properly begins. From there the path crosses black desert and rhyolite ridge to Álftavatn, then drops through moss and birch into the green valley of Þórsmörk.

Since 1997 the same route has doubled as the course for the Laugavegur Ultra Marathon each July, a race that covers in a single day what most hikers take four days to walk. The hot ground and the cold glaciers sit close enough together the whole way that walkers pass between them more than once.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Camino de Santiago, Coast to Coast and GR20 Corsica.

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