The Haukeli Tunnel ( no, Haukelitunnelen) is a

road tunnel A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...

Ullensvang Municipality Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd, A ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The tunnel is located about northeast of the village of

Røldal Røldal is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The village lies in the Røldal valley along the Storelva river on the north end of the lake Røldalsvatnet. Røldal is located about southeast of the town of O ...

. This tunnel was the longest tunnel in Norway from 1968 until the

Høyanger Tunnel Høyanger () is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Høyanger. Other villages in Høyanger municipality include Austreim, Bjordal, Kyrkjebø, ...

was opened in 1982. In 2007, the tunnel was renovated and the interior height was increased to throughout the tunnel. The tunnel is part of the

European route E134 European highway E 134 ( no, Europavei 134) is a European highway that crosses Norway starting at Haugesund Airport, Karmøy near the city of Haugesund on the west coast, heading over Haukeli, passing the city of Drammen, and ending in Vass ...

highway, and this tunnel was built in 1968 to replace an older exposed road that was often impassable in the wintertime. The tunnel goes through two different mountains, and there is actually a long section of the tunnel that is not inside the mountains. This section goes between the two mountains at Dyrskar and it is encased in concrete with a ventilation tower attached. Dyrskar was a challenging place to pass when the road went there. The old road is still drivable during the summer months. At Dyrskar, one can also see one of the oldest tunnels in Norway: the

Old Dyrskartunnel Old Dyrskartunnel ( Norwegian: ''Gamle Dyrskartunnel'') is a road tunnel in Odda municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The tunnel was built in 1900 and is one of the oldest road tunnels in Norway. Earlier, the main road over the mountains betw ...

which was in use from 1900–1919. The old tunnel is located on the hillside west of the pass.

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Ullensvang Road tunnels in Vestland {{Norway-tunnel-stub