HighwayDB
106 guides on famous highways, roads and motor routes. From Route 66 and the Autobahn to the Karakoram Highway, Stelvio Pass, Pacific Coast Highway and the Pan-American system, explore the roads that carried the world.
Key Roads
Route 66
The Mother Road from Chicago to Santa Monica, established in 1926 and fully paved by 1938. It carried Dust Bowl migrants west, pos...
German Autobahn
The federal motorway network famous for long stretches without a general speed limit. The Cologne to Bonn road of 1932 was the fir...
Pan-American Highway
The network of through roads from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to southern Chile, organized from a 1923 conference and largely continuous b...
Karakoram Highway
The KKH from Hasan Abdal to Khunjerab Pass at 4,693 m, the highest paved border crossing on earth, built over 20 years and opened ...
Stelvio Pass
The SS38 over the Stelvio between Bormio and Prato allo Stelvio, built by the Austrians from 1820 to 1825 with 48 numbered hairpin...
Pacific Coast Highway
California State Route 1 winding down the coast from Leggett to Dana Point, with the Big Sur cliffs between Carmel and San Simeon ...
Atlantic Road
The Atlanterhavsvegen on County Road 64 between Kristiansund and Molde, hopping skerries on eight bridges and causeways. Opened in...
Trans-Canada Highway
The 7,821 km route from Victoria, British Columbia to Saint Johns in Newfoundland, officially opened in 1962. It crosses ten provi...
Grossglockner High Alpine Road
Toll road to the Kaiser Franz Joseph Hohe beneath the highest mountain of Austria, opened in 1935. 36 hairpins climb 2,504 m past ...