Skógar is a small rural town on the south coast of Iceland, with only about 20 people living there.

Skógarfors is a beautiful village in the south of Iceland, located at the southern end of the Eyjafjordela ice cap. The village is famous for its nearby waterfalls. The most famous of these is the Skógafoss waterfall, which plunges spectacularly from a 60-meter-high rocky outcrop, with many more waterfalls of different types further upstream.

The town also has a museum with a display of local fishing boats. However, the town is adjacent to the famous Skógafoss waterfall, which attracts many tourists to visit and stay here.

The Skógafoss school was closed in 1949 and was converted into a hotel.

Skógár's many museums are among the most popular cultural attractions on Iceland's south coast. The museums consist of several buildings, including a folklore museum, an open-air museum, a transport museum, and many historic premises.

The Transport Museum introduces visitors to the amazing history of Iceland's modernization: Iceland, which had almost no roads, had a relatively well-developed transportation network by the mid-twentieth century.

The main building in Skógal exhibits a variety of Icelandic handicrafts and an old eight-oared fishing boat, which perfectly recreates the Icelandic fishing era.

The house from Holt painted black throughout, was originally built in 1878 as the first wooden house in Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla, and was inhabited until 1974 when it was moved to the Skogar area in 1980. The house exhibits Icelandic domestic furnishings from 1870 to 1930, faithfully recreating Icelandic homes at the turn of the century.

The farmhouse from Skál built between 1919 and 1920, was rebuilt in Skogar in 1989, while the warehouse from Gröf was built around 1870. There is also a row of traditional straw-roofed buildings in the Skogar museum area, which were also assembled from various locations for this exhibition. These farmhouses and houses are classic Icelandic rural architecture, showing the life of Icelandic civilians in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The famous Skójar Waterfall, just 5 kilometers from Skójar, is one of the most visited waterfalls in Iceland, with its vast, wide waterfall and rainbow overhanging it. Visitors can climb the stairs to the top of the waterfall and enjoy the panoramic view of Iceland's south coast and its natural majesty and splendor.

The town of Skogar also marks the start of one of Iceland's most popular hiking trails, the Fimmvörðurháls; visitors can also drive to the area in 4WD jeeps. Fimmvörðurháls is located between two glacial volcanoes, Mýrdalsjökull and Eyjafjallajökull, and one of Iceland's most active volcanoes, Katla, lies beneath the ice cap of Mýrdalsjökull.

The northern end of Fimvoróholes ends at Þórsmörk (meaning "Thor's valley"), a stunning, verdant oasis in the central inland highlands that is also one of Iceland's most popular hiking destinations.