FROSTY WHITE HVÍTÁ RIVER

The Hvítá is the tenth longest river in Iceland.

Its source is at Eiríksjökull and Langjökull, in many small rivers that then merge. There is some fishing in the Hvítá, although more in its tributaries. Grímsá, Þverá and Kjarrá, which flow into the Hvítá, have the best and most expensive salmon fishing in the country. The bridge over the Hvítá, which stands on road 510 near Ferjubakki in Borgarfjörður, was designed by Árni Pálsson, an engineer at The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration. The bridge hasa single lane and is 106 metres long. It was chosen by the Icelandic Society of Engineers as one of the engineering achievements of the last century in Iceland. For fifty years, the bridge was the main national road between the south and southwest of the country before the Borgarfjörður bridge, the largest bridge in Iceland,was inaugurated in 1979, south of Borgarnes.