The Westfjords
The region most itineraries skip — and exactly what is in it, counted.
The Westfjords are the peninsula in Iceland's north-west that the Ring Road does not reach — which is why most trips miss them entirely. Every guide calls the region remote and then shows you Dynjandi. Here is the more useful version: we hold 670 mapped places across 27 categories here, including 34 waterfalls, 32 hot springs and 43 campsites. Remote is an adjective. Thirty-two hot springs is a fact.
What is actually there
Counts of records we hold for this region — not a claim about everything that exists, but everything we have mapped and can point you at. Each links to the full list.
- 227 peaks
Mostly OSM-derived — this is what we have mapped, not an official summit count. - 49 viewpoints
Pull-ins and marked outlooks along the fjord roads. - 46 bays
The shape of the whole region — the road follows nearly all of them. - 43 campsites
More than you would expect for the population. - 34 fjords
The named fjords themselves. - 34 waterfalls
Dynjandi is the one in the photograph; 33 others are mapped. - 32 hot springs
Including several roadside pools with no facilities and no queue. - 17 lighthouses
A coastline this long collects them. - 11 swimming pools
Every village of any size has one.
Eighteen more categories carry Westfjords records too — museums, churches, canyons, capes, glaciers, caves and others — for 670 in total.
Fuel in the region, today
We hold 16 stations across the entire Westfjords. That is the number worth remembering: fill up when you pass one, not when you need one.
- Orkan Ísafjörður — bensín 95 280.4 ISK/L · diesel 326.7
- ÓB Ísafjörður — bensín 95 280.5 ISK/L · diesel 326.8
- Orkan Bíldudalur — bensín 95 282.3 ISK/L · diesel 329.7
- Orkan Bolungarvík — bensín 95 282.3 ISK/L · diesel 329.7
Cars & campers
KEF airport pickup 24/74.8
Transmission
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SleepsThe Westfjords — questions people actually ask
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What is Dynjandi?
Hero photograph: Dynjandi by Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Fuel prices: gasvaktin.is. Record counts: our own datasets, measured 3 August 2026.