The Milestone Park in Hyllestad Municipality
The extensive cultural landscape in Hyllestad is like a history book carved in stone, specifically garnet mica slate, and tells of a continuous mining operation through 1300 years, all the way back to the 8th century. With millstones, grain could be ground into flour, and this was an absolutely necessary product to get food on the table. The millstones were exported to Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
Another important product from Hyllestad were the large stone crosses that were set up at strategic locations along the entire western coast in the 9th and 11th centuries. The commissioners were probably kings and nobles, and the crosses were a symbol that the country was Christian. They may also have functioned as gathering places for worshippers.
The Milesone park in Hyllestad is an open-air museum under Musea i Sogn og Fjordane .
Here you can follow signposted hiking trails all year round. Information services with guided tours, a museum shop and activities are available every day from 11 am to 5 pm in the summer season (mid-June to mid-August), and otherwise by appointment. You will find a stamp in your pilgrim passport in the mailbox on the wall outside the information building. Remember to write your name in the guest book.
From Kvernsteinsparken you can follow the old church road to Hyllestad old churchyard. Here you will find three Celtic crosses from the early Middle Ages on the corner of the churchyard wall. The fourth cross hangs in today's Hyllestad church from 1880.
For those traveling along the Kystpilegrimsleia with their own boat, the nearest harbor is Hyllestad guest harbor. If you are traveling by public transport, the nearest boat stop is Rysjedalsvika, where there is a ferry to Rutledal and a fast boat between Selje and Bergen.
You will also find the grocery store Spar Hyllestad in the city center.
Hyllestad vicarage in Hyllestad city centre is open to pilgrims during the summer season.
From the key town it is 11 km out into the fjord to the pilgrim hostel Sognhostel . From here you can rent a bike, drive a car or take your own boat 24 km west to Korrssund in Fjaler. Here you will also find a guest harbour. In Korssund stands one of the largest stone crosses in the country, produced in Hyllestad. The cross is 384 cm high and 243 cm from arm to arm. The cross is said to have been erected by Olav Haraldson, later Olav the Holy, who according to legend opened the rock here so that boats could sail through the narrow strait.
From Korssund it is 8.2 km to Fure ferry pier, where you can take the ferry to Askvoll. Askvoll is a Stopover on the express boat between Bergen and Selje.