All participants must meet COVID related requirements for the destinations through which they will travel. A decision on the status of the 2022 summer program will be made on April 1. Payment will be due by April 8, 2022 depending upon the pandemic situation.
Tentative travel dates for 2022:
Depart (KEF) and arrive in Chicago (ORD) on Friday, July 8, 2022 and depart North America on Friday, August 5, 2022 (return to KEF on August 6, 2022). Snorri West participants will travel through the Central Corridor of North America, including:
Tentative travel dates for 2022:
Depart (KEF) and arrive in Chicago (ORD) on Friday, July 8, 2022 and depart North America on Friday, August 5, 2022 (return to KEF on August 6, 2022). Snorri West participants will travel through the Central Corridor of North America, including:
Illinois
In addition, joint activities with Snorri participants from North America will be held in Iceland prior to your departure.
You and your fellow participants will also give a presentation about your Snorri West experience at the Icelandic National League of Iceland’s annual conference, usually held the Sunday after Menningarnótt at Hótel Natura, in Reykjavík.
Itinerary and dates are subject to change.
- The metropolitan area of Chicago, one of Icelandair's gateway cities to North America
- The metropolitan area of Milwaukee, a port on Great Lake Michigan, served as a gateway city for Icelanders arriving in North America and often heading to settlements further west.
- Washington Island - home to Icelanders since 1870, Jacobsen Museum, Farm Museum, Rock island
- Antigo
- The metropolitan area of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul)
- Minneota (actually three counties - Lincoln, Lyon and Yellow Medicine), at one time home to the largest concentration of Icelandic immigrants in the United States.
- Fargo
- The Icelandic communities, including Mountain, where you’ll participate in the community celebration of August the Deuce, and Cavalier, home to Icelandic State Park. Enjoy viewing this Self-Drive Guidebook of Icelandic Settlement in Northeast North Dakota
- A week-long stay in the metropolitan provincial capital, Winnipeg.
- The Interlake Region, originally the colony of New Iceland, including:
- Gimli, where you’ll visit Icelandic Camp and celebrate Íslendingadagurinn
- Arborg
- Hecla Island
- Lundar
- Riverton
- Selkirk
In addition, joint activities with Snorri participants from North America will be held in Iceland prior to your departure.
You and your fellow participants will also give a presentation about your Snorri West experience at the Icelandic National League of Iceland’s annual conference, usually held the Sunday after Menningarnótt at Hótel Natura, in Reykjavík.
Itinerary and dates are subject to change.
Already imagining yourself on your own Snorri West adventure?
Wondering what to pack?
Read tips from former participants here.
Wondering what to pack?
Read tips from former participants here.
