Beartooth Highway (US 212)
Montana / Wyoming · USA
Switchbacks to 10,947 ft on the edge of Yellowstone
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Great Drives · the driver's atlas
The roads worth the journey.
Museums are where you look; these are where you drive. Two atlases in one — the world's great sealed roads (the Stelvio and the Amalfi, the Tail of the Dragon and the PCH, Trollstigen and the Great Ocean Road) and the overland side the 4×4 culture travels for (the Rubicon and the Canning Stock Route, the Pamir Highway and Iceland's F-roads). Switch between them below; each is gathered region by region.
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26 roads
North America · 8
Blue Ridge Parkway
Virginia – North Carolina · USA
America's longest linear park, ridge-line the whole way
Cherohala Skyway (TN 165 / NC 143)
Tellico Plains, TN – Robbinsville, NC · USA
The Dragon's companion road — longer, higher and far less crowded
Going-to-the-Sun Road
Glacier NP, Montana · USA
Carved across Glacier's Continental Divide
Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93)
Banff – Jasper, Alberta · Canada
Glaciers and peaks through the Canadian Rockies
Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1)
Big Sur, California · USA
Ocean and cliffs from Monterey to Morro Bay
Sea-to-Sky Highway (Hwy 99)
Vancouver – Whistler, BC · Canada
Howe Sound fjord climbing into the mountains
Tail of the Dragon (US 129)
Deals Gap, NC / TN · USA
America's most famous eleven miles of asphalt
Continental Europe · 7
Amalfi Coast Road (SS163)
Amalfi Coast · Italy
Cliff-edge road above the Tyrrhenian Sea
Black Forest High Road (B500)
Schwarzwald · Germany
Sweeping ridge road through the Black Forest
Col de Turini
Maritime Alps · France
The Monte Carlo Rally's legendary night stage
Furka Pass
Uri / Valais Alps · Switzerland
The James Bond Goldfinger road
Grossglockner High Alpine Road
Hohe Tauern · Austria
Austria's grand mountain drive
Stelvio Pass (SS38)
Eastern Alps · Italy
The Alps' most theatrical climb
Transfăgărășan (DN7C)
Făgăraș Mountains · Romania
Famed by Top Gear as one of the world's best roads
United Kingdom · 3
Hardknott Pass
Lake District · United Kingdom
Britain's most demanding tarmac
North Coast 500
Scottish Highlands · United Kingdom
Scotland's great touring loop
The Evo Triangle
Denbighshire, Wales · United Kingdom
The road testers' favourite Welsh loop
Australia & New Zealand · 2
Crown Range Road
Otago · New Zealand
Queenstown to Wanaka over the Crown Range
Great Ocean Road (B100)
Victoria · Australia
The surf coast and the Twelve Apostles — built by returned WWI soldiers
Japan · 2
Hakone Turnpike
Kanagawa, near Mt Fuji · Japan
The touge beneath Mt Fuji
Irohazaka Winding Road
Nikkō, Tochigi · Japan
Two one-way roads named for the 48 kana
South Africa · 2
Chapman's Peak Drive
Cape Peninsula · South Africa
Cut into the cliffs above the Atlantic
Franschhoek Pass
Western Cape · South Africa
Climbing above the Cape winelands
The Nordics · 2
Atlantic Ocean Road (Atlanterhavsvegen)
Møre og Romsdal · Norway
Island-hopping bridges out over the sea
Trollstigen
Rauma, Møre og Romsdal · Norway
The Troll's Ladder
Group drives
Drive it with people who get it.
The roads above are the destinations. The culture is driving them together — the organised runs, the regional group drives, the dawn starts. Tell us where you are and we’ll let you know when there’s a drive forming near you.