{"id":5963,"date":"2022-03-23T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:31:57","slug":"arnaldsstadaskogur-forest-in-iceland-area-travel-restaurants-hotels-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/geography\/forest\/arnaldsstadaskogur\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland: Area, Travel, Restaurants, Hotels and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland is a national birch and pine forest, situated on a high mountain slope. Unlike most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/geography\/forest\">forests in Iceland<\/a>, Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur is a natural forest and is now protected as a national forest. The birch trees in the forest are around 5 meters in height but there are also taller specimens rising up to 10 meters. The forest is covered with grass, flower land, Goat\u2019s angelica, and raspberries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where is the Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest is located in eastern <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\">iceland<\/a>. The forest sits on a steep mountain slope, north of the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/geography\/river\/\"   title=\"River\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">River<\/a> Keldu\u00e1.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the features of the Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The main feature of the Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland is the birch trees. Birch trees are usually lower but in this forest, there are specimens reaching heights of up to 10 meters thus being among the highest birch trees in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the tours for Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Tours in Iceland for Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur are popular, particularly among the more adventurous tourists. Hiking tours are in-demand. However, visitors should know that the hiking trails in Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur are steep and to manage them, they need to be physically prepared.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Travel to the Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland?<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Visitors to the Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland need to take Highway 934 and then turn southwest. Then, they should head north of river Keldu\u00e1. Racing the forest requires hiking on a steep and narrow hiking trail.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur Forest in Iceland is a national birch and pine forest, situated on a high mountain slope. Unlike most forests in Iceland, Arnaldssta\u00f0ask\u00f3gur is a natural forest and is now protected as a national forest. The birch trees in the forest are around 5 meters in height but there are also taller specimens rising up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceland.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}