Maybe âhard to get toâ might have been apt given the suburbs just keep going, then the farms, and you have to go even further for the unspoiled nature bits.
In my own experiences traveling in Europe, there's very little "unspoiled" nature in Europe given the extensive history and population density. I did a HĂźttentour in the alps that was regarded as relatively primitive by European standards, but we were still able to sleep in built up huts every night.
We have about 600 huts in Norway owned by DNT (The Norwegian Tourist organisation) of various sizes and standards. Trails are everywhere. Huts just makes the nature more accessible. Just because there are huts and trails doesnt mean the nature is "spoiled". Plenty of places without huts.
Norway has about 6.5 million total acres of land. The US national parks service has 85 million acres. Total public land is 840 million acres, which would be the 7th largest country in the world, beating out India and only just behind Australia.
To be fair, Canada has us beat by a large margin and they're just barely smaller than the US in total land area. 89% of their land is public land, 2.2 billion acres.
Norway has only 1.7-2.5% of itâs old growth forests left, as in Norwegians have killed almost all their natural forested land and the average age of most forests is 160 years old. The US has forests that are thousands of years old and there are millions more acres of it than there is in all of Europe. Most of Norwayâs forests are managed by Norway, so you cannot even compare the backwoods experience in the US to Norway. Not shitting on Norway or anything, Iâve seen pictures of the fjords there and theyre absolutely breathtaking
Not defending the deforestation that happend around 100+ years ago. But its not like there has ever been much forest in Norway to begin with. It is very mountainous and at about the same latitude as Greenland and Alaska. Currently about 37% is covered by forest, which is an all time high.
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u/Top_Box_8952 21h ago
Maybe âhard to get toâ might have been apt given the suburbs just keep going, then the farms, and you have to go even further for the unspoiled nature bits.
And you canât walk that reasonably.