The world's best road trips
Search legendary driving routes across the globe. Each guide covers the iconic stops, toll costs and a live estimator, traffic and road-condition alerts, and the best maps to plan your journey, whether you are exploring your new home country or chasing the open road.
Showing 29 of 29 routes
Pacific Coast Highway
California's State Route 1 hugs the Pacific from the redwoods near San Francisco down to the beaches of Southern California, threading cliffside curves through Big Sur.
Great Ocean Road
Built by returned WWI soldiers, this coastal drive west of Melbourne curves past surf beaches, rainforest, and the limestone stacks of the Twelve Apostles.
Ring Road (Route 1)
Route 1 loops the entire island past waterfalls, glaciers, black-sand beaches, and geothermal fields. The definitive Icelandic road trip.
Amalfi Coast Drive (SS163)
The Strada Statale 163 threads a narrow cliff ledge above the Tyrrhenian Sea, linking pastel towns like Positano and Amalfi below the Sorrentine peninsula.
Garden Route
The N2 highway runs along the lush southern Cape coast from Mossel Bay to Storms River, past lagoons, forests, and dramatic ocean cliffs.
Route 66
The "Mother Road" runs from Chicago to Santa Monica across eight states, a nostalgic ribbon of diners, neon motels, and desert Americana.
North Coast 500
A 516-mile loop from Inverness around the wild Scottish Highlands, past lochs, castles, single-track passes, and rugged northern beaches.
Romantic Road
A 350-km ribbon through Bavaria linking walled medieval towns, baroque churches, and fairytale castles from Wรผrzburg to the Alps at Fรผssen.
Transfฤgฤrฤศan Highway
A serpentine mountain road climbing over the Fฤgฤraศ range to 2,042 m, with dizzying switchbacks, tunnels, and a glacial lake at the summit.
Grossglockner High Alpine Road
A 48-km toll road of 36 hairpins climbing to 2,504 m below Austria's highest peak, with glacier views and high-alpine visitor centers.
Road to Hana
Maui's Hana Highway threads more than 600 curves and 50 one-lane bridges past waterfalls, rainforest, and black-sand beaches on the island's wild eastern shore.
Stelvio Pass
One of the highest paved passes in the Alps, the Stelvio stacks 48 numbered hairpin bends up to 2,758 m, a legendary drive between Lombardy and South Tyrol.
Milford Road
State Highway 94 runs from Te Anau into the heart of Fiordland, climbing through glacial valleys and the Homer Tunnel to the fjord at Milford Sound.
Atlantic Ocean Road
A short, spectacular ribbon of bridges and causeways hopping between tiny islets on Norway's west coast, crowned by the wave-battered Storseisundet Bridge.
Cabot Trail
A loop around the highlands of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, climbing coastal headlands above the Atlantic and Gulf of St. Lawrence, unforgettable in autumn.
Route des Grandes Alpes
A classic alpine traverse from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean, crossing more than a dozen high passes including the mighty Col de l'Iseran, Europe's highest paved pass.
Ha Giang Loop
A mountainous circuit through Vietnam's far north, winding past limestone karst peaks, terraced rice fields, and ethnic-minority villages on the dramatic Ma Pi Leng Pass.
Leh to Manali Highway
A high-altitude Himalayan crossing linking Manali with Leh in Ladakh, topping several passes above 5,000 m across a stark, otherworldly mountain desert.
Carretera Austral
Route 7 runs deep into Chilean Patagonia, a mostly remote road of gravel and forest linking fjords, glaciers, and turquoise rivers through near-untouched wilderness.
Ruta 40 (Patagonia)
Argentina's legendary Route 40 runs the length of the country beside the Andes. Its Patagonian stretch is an epic of empty steppe, glaciers, and turquoise lakes.
Route des Grands Crus
Burgundy's "Champs-Elysees of wine" runs south from Dijon through the Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune, past some of the most famous vineyard names on earth.
Alsace Wine Route
France's oldest wine route threads more than a hundred miles of vineyards and fairytale half-timbered villages along the foot of the Vosges, from Marlenheim to Thann.
Chianti Wine Road (SR222)
The Chiantigiana (SR222) rolls through the heart of Tuscany between Florence and Siena, past cypress-lined lanes, hilltop wine towns, and endless vineyards and olive groves.
Douro Valley (N-222)
The N-222 traces the Douro River through the world's oldest demarcated wine region, past dizzying terraced vineyards and the quintas that produce port and Douro wines.
Loire Valley Chateaux Route
A grand tour of the "Garden of France", linking the Loire's Renaissance chateaux, royal gardens, and riverside wine towns across a UNESCO-listed valley.
German Castle Road (Burgenstrasse)
The Burgenstrasse strings together more than seventy castles and palaces from Mannheim through Heidelberg and medieval Franconia toward Nuremberg and the Czech border.
Bavarian Alpine Road (Alpenstrasse)
Germany's oldest holiday road, the Deutsche Alpenstrasse, runs along the Bavarian Alps from Lake Constance to Berchtesgaden, past fairytale castles, alpine lakes, and mountain passes.
Wachau Valley (Danube)
A short, storybook drive along the Danube between Melk and Krems, past terraced vineyards, apricot orchards, a great baroque abbey, and riverside wine villages.
Camino Dubrovnik
Europe's newest Camino is a 145 km walking pilgrimage that slips away from Dubrovnik's crowded Old Town and heads north through the quiet Dalmatian hinterland, crossing into Bosnia and Herzegovina to finish at the shrine of Medjugorje. It follows old trade and pilgrim paths, Mediterranean coast, and mountain slopes, and reveals a side of Dubrovnik most visitors never see.