National Road 41
Bokmål: Riksvei 41 Nynorsk: Riksveg 41
Kviteseidkleivan rest area
Route information
Maintained by Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Length	172.9 km (107.4 mi)
Major junctions
North end	E134 at Brunkeberg, Kviteseid
Major intersections	Fv404 at Herefoss Fv406 at Senumstad
South end	E18 at Hånes, Kristiansand
Location
Country	Norway
Highway system
Roads in Norway National Roads County Roads

Norwegian National Road 41 (Rv 41; also known as the Telemarksveien) is a Norwegian national road that runs through Vestfold og Telemark and Agder counties in Norway. The road runs between the village of Brunkeberg in Kviteseid municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in the north and Timenes in Hånes in the city of Kristiansand in Agder county in the south. The 172.9-kilometre (107.4 mi) long road connects to the European route E134 highway in the north and to the European route E18 highway in the south.^[1] The road runs for 101.5 kilometres (63.1 mi) in Agder county and 71.4 kilometres (44.4 mi) in Vestfold og Telemark county. The southern half of the road runs along the river Tovdalselva and the lake Herefossfjorden, and it is located in a fault zone called the Kristiansand-Porsgrunn grabenen.

The road passes through these villages in Kristiansand: Grovikheia and Tveit. The road passes through these villages in Birkenes: Mollestad, Birkeland, Søre Herefoss, and Herefoss. In Birkenes, it also passes by the Herefossfjorden and it has junctions with the Norwegian County Road 404 and Norwegian County Road 406. The road passes through the village of Hynnekleiv in Froland. The Sørlandsbanen railway line follows the road for about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) in northern Birkenes and Froland. The road passes through these villages in Åmli: Dølemo, Eppeland, and Åmli. The road passes through these villages in Nissedal: Treungen, Kyrkjebygda, and Nordbygdi. The road passes through these villages in Kviteseid: Eidstod, Kviteseid, and Brunkeberg.

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  Lake by Norwegian National Road 41, Telemarksveien
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  The quality of the road is highly variable, at some stretches the road is as narrow as here in Birkenes
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  Norwegian National Road 41 passing between steep cliffs and the lake Kviteseidvatnet
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  Another view of the road
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  View of the road, just north of Åmli

The Telemark Road

The road is known as the Telemark Road (Norwegian: Telemarksveien) and this name is used for the marketing of the road and surrounding businesses. The road passes Hamresanden Beach and Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik in the south in Kristiansand municipality. It then heads north through the municipalities of Birkenes, Froland, Åmli, Nissedal, and Kviteseid. These are municipalities that tourists do not always find easily, so marketing the road has helped to bring people there. The Telemark road goes through a lot of beautiful, Norwegian scenery as well.