Scenic Roads

California State Route 1 winding down the coast from Leggett to Dana Point, with the Big Sur cliffs between Carmel and San Simeon ...

Maui coastal road to Hana with over 600 curves and 50 one lane bridges along rainforest cliffs. Paved in 1926 to link remote Hawai...

The only road across Glacier National Park in Montana, carved into the Garden Wall below the Continental Divide. Opened in 1933 af...

The longest linear park in America, running 755 km through the Blue Ridge from Shenandoah to the Great Smokies. Begun in 1935 as a...

US 129 at Deals Gap on the Tennessee North Carolina line packs 318 curves into 11 miles, making it the premier sports car and moto...

US 212 from Red Lodge to the northeast gate of Yellowstone over Beartooth Pass at 3,337 m. Charles Kuralt called it the most beaut...

The James W Dalton haul road from Livengood to Deadhorse at the Arctic Ocean, built to service the trans Alaska pipeline. 414 km w...

The great alpine crossing from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean via 16 passes including Iseran, Galibier and Izoard. Signed as a t...

The Col de l Iseran is the highest paved road pass in the Alps at 2,770 m, opened in 1937 after eight years of work. Switchbacks a...

The Restefond La Bonette loop in the Maritime Alps reaches 2,802 m, marketed as the highest road in Europe by a cairn detour aroun...

RN85 from Golfe Juan on the Riviera to Grenoble, following the escape route Napoleon marched with 1,200 men in 1815 on the way to ...

Toll road to the Kaiser Franz Joseph Hohe beneath the highest mountain of Austria, opened in 1935. 36 hairpins climb 2,504 m past ...

The classic Swiss pass road between Gletsch and Andermatt, starred in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Modern hairpins pass th...

Postwar showpiece road linking Innertkirchen and Wassen across 2,224 m, planned in the 1930s and finished in 1945. Switchbacks ris...

Ceausescu ordered this military road over the Fagaras mountains after the 1968 Prague invasion, built largely by soldiers at cost ...

The King Road across the Parang mountains tops 2,145 m, higher than the Transfagarasan and older, first charted in the 1930s and r...

The SS163 strung along cliffs between Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi, carved in the Bourbon era of the 1850s. Buses thread hairpins...

Route 1 circles the entire island past waterfalls, glaciers, black deserts and lava fields. Completed in 1974 with the Skeioararbr...

The signed coastal touring route from Inishowen in Donegal to Kinsale, promoted from 2014 as the longest defined coastal drive in ...

The 516 mile loop from Inverness around the northern Highlands, branded in 2015 and now dubbed the answer of Scotland to Route 66....

Themed route from Wurzburg through Rothenburg and Dinkelsbuhl to Fussen at the Neuschwanstein castle, invented in 1950 to lure Ame...

Built by 3,000 returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932 as the largest war memorial in the world, hugging the shipwreck coast of Vi...

Loop around Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia through the highlands park, completed in 1932. French Acadian villages, moose and th...

Highway 93 North between Lake Louise and Jasper through the heart of the Rockies, opened in 1940. Glaciers including the Columbia ...

Highway 99 from Vancouver through Squamish to Whistler, upgraded to world standard for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The stretch from ...

Gravel highway from near Dawson City across the Arctic Circle to Inuvik and, since 2017, Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean. Named fo...

The legendary National Route 40 runs the length of Argentina from the Bolivian border to Cabo Virgenes, parallel to the Andes. One...

Route 7 through Chilean Patagonia from Puerto Montt toward Villa O Higgins, pushed through fjord and forest in stages from the lat...

The North Yungas Road from La Paz to Coroico, once killing 200 to 300 travelers a year as the most dangerous road in the world. Ch...

The Central Cross Island Highway from Taichung over Hehuanshan and down through Taroko Gorge to Hualien, completed in 1960 by vete...

Nine cliff hugging kilometers between Hout Bay and Noordhoek on the Cape Peninsula, opened in 1922 with galleries cut into sheer T...

The troll ladder of eleven hairpins near Andalsnes climbing 858 m with a 9 percent grade, opened in 1936 after eight years of pick...

The ten state network of byways following the Mississippi from Lake Itasca to the Gulf, designated from 1938. Levee tops, bluffs a...

Ninety nine hairpin bends climb 1,100 vertical meters up Tianmen Mountain near Zhangjiajie to the Heaven Gate natural arch tunnel....

Thirteen villagers of Guoliang chiseled this cliff road through the Taihang Mountains by hand from 1972 to 1977, using hammers and...

Highway 120 across the Yosemite high country to Tioga Pass at 3,031 m, the highest highway pass in California. Opened as a wagon t...

The stretch of US 550 between Ouray and Silverton in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, following a toll road pioneered by Otto M...

State Highway 94 from Te Anau into Fiordland and the only road to Milford Sound. The route climbs through beech forest and glacial...

New Hampshire Route 112 across the White Mountain National Forest, completed in 1959 and named after a 17th century Pennacook sach...

The ridgetop road through Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, built largely by the Civilian Conservation Corps and completed in ...

The highway across Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, built between 1929 and 1932, and the highest continuous paved road in...

The first planned scenic highway in the United States, built between 1913 and 1922 through the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Eng...