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The best driving roads in Turkey
All 6 driving roads in Turkey on one interactive map, including 1 world icon, each with its route, climb and best seasons.
The five to build a trip around
Our ranking, icons first, with the reasoning on the table. All 6 roads follow below.
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1
2,580 msummitDerebaşı Bends
Turkey’s most extreme mountain road climbs 13 consecutive guardrail-free hairpins through Mount Soğanlı, with sheer drops of hundreds of metres and gradients hitting 17%.
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2
1,099 msummitFırtına Valley Road
The Fırtına Valley road climbs from the Black Sea coast through a dramatic green gorge carved by the Storm River, past more than twenty Ottoman stone arch bridges, to the mountain plateau of Ayder at 1,350 m, gateway to the Kaçkar Mountains.
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3
67 mi2 h 20 minOvit Pass
One of Turkey’s highest paved roads, the D925 scales the Ovit Pass at 2,640 m through the cloud-forest flanks of the Kaçkar Mountains.
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4
2,460 msummitZigana Pass
The ancient Silk Road crossing of the Pontic Mountains, the D885 winds from Trabzon’s forested foothills to the 2,032 m Zigana Pass.
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5
1,866 msummitUludağ Mountain Road
The D575 climbs from the spa district of Bursa through continuous pine and beech forest to Turkey’s most celebrated ski resort on Uludağ, the ancient Olympus of Bithynia, gaining over 1,400 m in just 35 km.
The roads
Derebaşı Bends62 mi · 2 h 24 min · 2,580 m summitView the roadbook ›
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