Saxholl Crater
About the place
Saxhóll rises straight out of the lava field on the western tip of Snæfellsnes, and the climb is the whole point. A slender metal stairway, winner of the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize in 2018, curves to the rim in two arches. From the top the crater bowl sits at your feet, while the Atlantic, the black lava and the Snæfellsjökull ice cap fill the horizon. It is one of the easiest craters in Iceland to climb, and a quick, free stop inside the national park.
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