Tröð Scenic Lookout
Tröð Scenic Lookout is a landscape in Westfjords & Remote, Iceland — about 413 km from Reykjavik and reached by a straightforward drive from the nearest highway turnoff. Shoot it during the summer window, when light, road status, and crowd levels line up for photography, then use the GPS coordinates, parking notes, and nearby waypoints below to fold this stop into a longer photography route.
Overview
A scenic lookout above Álftafjörður on the southern side of Ísafjarðardjúp in the Westfjords, about 2.2 km east of Súðavík.
As a photography stop, Tröð Scenic Lookout is a landscape in Westfjords & Remote, roughly 413 km from Reykjavik, reached by a straightforward drive from the nearest highway turnoff. Plan the shoot during the summer window, when light, road status, and crowd levels line up for photography. The downloadable Landscape map pins exact GPS coordinates, parking, and nearby waypoints so you can fold it into a wider route instead of hunting for the pull-off on arrival.
Planning more than one stop? Open the Iceland landscape photo map to put Tröð Scenic Lookout on the same offline layer as everything nearby.
Notes on this location
Compiled from published sources rather than a visit. Sources are listed below.
A lookout above Álftafjörður on the southern side of Ísafjarðardjúp, about 2.2 km east of Súðavík in the Westfjords.
- Where
- Álftafjörður, on the southern side of Ísafjarðardjúp in the Vestfirðir region. Súðavík is in the same fjord
- Distance
- The pin sits about 2.2 km east of Súðavík village
- History
- A whaling station operated in the fjord at Langeyri from 1883 until whaling was prohibited in Iceland in 1915
- Which Álftafjörður
- Three Icelandic fjords carry this name — one in Snæfellsnes, one in the Eastfjords and this one in the Westfjords
- Corrected here
- This entry’s description used to put it in the northeast of the country and on the wrong side of Súðavík. The coordinates place it in the northwest, about 2.2 km east of the village, and the description now says so
- Not in the source
- The cited page names no mountains, no road and no avalanche history
The subject from a lookout here is the fjord system rather than any single feature, which makes it a weather-and-light stop rather than a destination — the kind worth taking on the way past when Ísafjarðardjúp is clear, and skipping when it is not.
SourcesÁlftafjörður — Wikipedia
Light & aurora at this spot
Calculated from this location’s coordinates (66.035, -22.928). Iceland stays on UTC year-round, so these are local times.
- Summer
- Midnight sun in June — the sun does not set, so golden light runs for hours either side of midnight.
- Winter
- December: only 2.9 h of daylight (11:60–14:54), but the sun never climbs above 0.7° — the entire day is golden hour. Sunrise bears SSE, sunset SSW.
- Aurora
- Aurora-grade darkness Sep–Mar, peaking at 13.1 h a night in December. Not possible Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug — the sky never gets dark enough.
Bar height is daylight hours. Months marked • have enough astronomical darkness for aurora; the rest do not.
Questions & answers
Tröð Scenic Lookout is a landscape in Westfjords & Remote, Iceland, approximately 413 km from Reykjavik. Exact GPS coordinates are included in the downloadable Landscape map.
The recommended season for Tröð Scenic Lookout is Summer. For light, plan around blue hour and the first hour after sunrise; Iceland's long shoulder-season twilight extends usable conditions on either side.
Drive access. A standard rental car works in most seasons; check road status in winter before committing. The downloadable GPS map puts the waypoint on your phone; your own app routes you to it from wherever you are.
Tröð Scenic Lookout is best visited during Summer. Outside that window, expect limited access, weather closures, or significantly different photographic conditions.