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Gaustatoppen

1,882 m6,175 ft

Easiest route: 5.0 km+705 m · about 2.5 h · T4
Prominence: 965 m3,165 ft
Isolation: 85 km
Tonight: -5°CCloudy · Wind 20 km/h E

Gaustatoppen is a 1,882 m (6,175 ft) mountain in the Scandinavian Mountains, Telemark, Norway.

All facts

Elevation: 1,882 m · 6,175 ft
Nearest higher peak: Folarskardnuten (1,932 m)
Range: Scandinavian Mountains
Region: Telemark, Norway
Coordinates: 59.8540° N, 8.6494° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Gaustatoppen

2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 3.8 km ESE of Gaustatoppen

Distance: 5.0 kmone way
Climb: +705 m(2,313 ft up)
Time up: about 2.5 h
Difficulty: T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places

Gaustatoppen elevation profile

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Other routes 1

Parking, 2.1 km ENE of Gaustatoppen4.3 km · +852 m · about 2.5 h
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Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Gaustatoppen 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Gaustatoppen terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Gaustatoppen weather

Tonight · Cloudy · -5°C (23°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 20 km/h E

Gaustatoppen forecast for the summit, about 1,882 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,014 m.

Tonight-5°0.2 mm20 km/h EBase 1°
Today-5°-4°34.0 mm66 km/h SEBase 1 / 3°
Sun-5°-4°38.2 mm59 km/h SEBase 1 / 2°
Mon-5°-2°3.5 mm33 km/h WBase 1 / 5°
Tue-2°-2°10.1 mm37 km/h SBase 2 / 5°
Wed-3°-2°–34 km/h SWBase 3 / 4°
Thu-5°-1°–31 km/h WBase 1 / 5°
Fri-5°-1°–15 km/h WBase 0 / 5°
Sat-4°-3°–15 km/h WBase 1 / 4°
Sun-5°-4°–17 km/h WBase 1 / 3°
Mon-7°-3°–17 km/h WBase -1 / 4°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 00:30 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Gaustatoppen

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Gaustatoppen, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Gaustatoppen Turisthytte
0.5 km SE · +1 more within 0.5 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
2.0 km E
+2 more within 2.1 km
Directions Map
Nearest caravan site
Langefonn Caravanpark
2.9 km NE
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Rjukan Hytte og Caravanpark
6.3 km NNE · +1 more within 6.3 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 8

Place	Distance
Gaustatoppen TuristhytteHut	0.5 km SE
Gaustatoppen TuristhytteHut	0.5 km SE
Parking	2.0 km E
Parking	2.1 km ENE
Parking	2.1 km E
Langefonn CaravanparkCaravan site	2.9 km NE
Rjukan Hytte og CaravanparkCampsite	6.3 km NNE
Rjukan Hytte og CaravanparkCampsite	6.3 km NNE

Slope

How steep is the route to Gaustatoppen?

The easiest mapped route, 5.0 km from 1,161 m to 1,882 m. Steepest stretch: 24°.

0 km · 1,161 m5.0 km · 1,882 m

0–15°4.7 km
15–30°0.3 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 46.4%Grassland 21.8%Bare rock / sparse 16.2%Moss & lichen 9.3%Water 4.9%Built-up 1.2%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Gaustatoppen sits

Ranked in 1

#4 Treks and hikes in Norway

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Hallingdal90 km NNE

Gaustatoppen downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGGaustatoppen satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-29.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXGaustatoppen GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

10 m low This 3D map reads 1,872 m at the summit; the official height is 1,882 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,882 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,872 m	-10 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,857 m	-25 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-29)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Gaustatoppen

Easiest route: from Road end, 3.8 km ESE of Gaustatoppen

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest caravan site

Nearest campsite

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