Just like France does food and Italy leads with romance, Norway’s focus is firmly on families having the best time wherever they go. Start by taking in the lush and vast landscape of the country. Make sure to show the kids all of the wildlife native to Scandinavia. Head to a water park or museum. From Oslo to Tromsø, the possibilities are almost limitless.
If you haven’t seen Norway yet, you should. It’s a country where family-friendly is a rule rather than an exception.
Tromsø, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is Norway’s most northern city and one of the best places in the world for kids to see the Northern Lights from November to March.
There are nine World Heritage sites, including Rjukanfossen Waterfall, the Geirangerfjord and Bergen’s Bryggen Wharf.
Norway shares the same latitude as Alaska, Greenland and Siberia, but has Gulf streams too. Spring and summer are warm and sunny in the west and southwest. Winter is snowy and wonderful for winter sports. Temperatures are only extreme in the far north.
There are 44 national parks, with the greatest concentration in the southwest and west Norway Fjord region. Norway’s Western Fjords were the inspiration for Disney’s Frozen.
With over 1150 miles of roads across western, central and northern Norway, divided into 18 National Tourist Routes, almost the entire country is accessible for families.
You can’t visit the land of the fjords without sailing and family cruises – single day, several days or weeks are widely available. Norway’s also the country for road trips and the 18 remarkable Tourist Routes are wonderful to drive. Don’t bother with a car if you’re not exploring the countryside: city transport is excellent and bikes are best in Trondheim and Bergen. Norway’s rail network is extensive and trains are family-friendly from costs to comfort. Domestic flights from Oslo cover even the most far-flung Arctic regions.
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