Paid Parking in Iceland

In Iceland you won't find many natural places you need to pay to enter, however, at many of popular tourist locations, they started charging for the parking.

Avoiding it can be sometimes tricky, as there're usually not other parking places nearby and parking next to the road can be punished as off-road driving.

Paying for it is usually pretty straight forward, though and in most cases you can pay using Parka or EasyPark app, however few of them are using their own payment methods. (see below)

Here's a list of all places in the country that currently charge for parking.

South Iceland

• Gluggafoss waterfall – 1000 ISK via Parka

• The Diamond Beach – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Fagradalsfjall Volcano – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Sólheimasandur (plane wreck) – 750 ISK via Parka

• DC-3 Plane Wreck in Eyvindarholt – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Reynisfjara a.k.a. Black Sand Beach – 750-1000 ISK via Parka

• Sólheimajökull glacier – 750 ISK via Parka

• Skaftafell – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Seljalandsfoss waterfall – 900 ISK via ticket machines on the spot or online checkit.is

• Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Jökulsárlón (The Glacier Lagoon) – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Hjörleifshöfði (the Yoda Cave)* – 1000 ISK via EasyPark

• Kvernufoss waterfall – 750 ISK via Parka

• Brúarhlöð - 1000 ISK via Parka

West Iceland

• Seal Beach at Ytri-Tunga – 650 ISK via checkit.is

• Kirkjufellsfoss* – 700-1000 ISK via EasyPark

North Iceland

• Illugastaðir – 400 ISK via Parka

• Hverir Geothermal Area* – 1200 ISK via EasyPark

• Hverfjall crater – 1000 ISK via Parka

• Reykjafoss/Fosslaug - 1500 ISK (honesty box, staff with a terminal)

East Iceland

• Hengifoss – 1000 ISK via checkit.is

• Stokksnes (Vestrahorn beach) – 1000 ISK (pay at the Viking Cafe)

Highlands

• Landmannalaugar – 450 ISK

*These places are known to charge additional fees up to 5000 ISK if guests fail to pay upon arrival.

TIP: If you're renting a car/van where you have an option to mount a bike rack and rent a bike, you can always easily park a little further and avoid the fees like this. That's what I often do, but only on good weather days :)

Note: Found a place that's missing? Please send me a message via Rexby or email me to janiniceland@gmail.com and help others!