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Hand-written, data-driven guides to the world’s best driving roads: the highest passes, the great coastal drives and the twistiest hairpin roads.
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The highest mountain passes you can drive
The highest paved roads on earth are a category of their own: thin air, snow banks into summer, and a road that climbs until the view falls away on every side.
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The best driving roads in the Alps
No mountain range concentrates great driving like the Alps.
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The best driving roads in the Balkans
The Balkans hold some of Europe’s last quiet driving.
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The best driving roads in Scandinavia and the Nordics
Nowhere rewards a patient drive like the Nordics.
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The best driving roads in South America
South America drives on a scale Europe cannot match.
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The best driving roads in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia rides through jungle, rice terrace and limestone karst.
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The best driving roads in the Himalayas
The Himalaya and Karakoram hold the highest drivable roads on earth.
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The best coastal drives in the world
A great coast road gives you two views for the price of one: the sea on one side, the land falling into it on the other.
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The longest great driving roads in the world
Some roads are a corner; others are a journey.
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The world’s most hair-raising hairpin roads
A hairpin is the purest test of a road and a driver: full lock, a held breath, then the next one.
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The best driving roads in the world
Every list of the world’s best driving roads ends in an argument, so here is mine, with its reasoning on the table.
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The best driving roads in Europe
Roughly two-thirds of the catalogue is European, and not by accident: Alpine passes stacked with hairpins, Highland single-tracks, fjord roads that end at the water.
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The best driving roads in the UK
Britain’s best roads are a particular pleasure: narrow, old, draped over the landscape rather than carved through it.
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The best driving roads in America
American roads do scale like nowhere else: a coast road that runs for a hundred miles, a mountain pass that takes all morning, a desert highway with the horizon for company.
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The highest roads in Europe
Europe’s highest tarmac lives above the treeline, where the air thins, the guardrails get optional and the season lasts four months.
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The steepest roads you can drive
Steepness changes a road completely: first gear, a hot clutch and a windscreen full of sky.
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Great driving roads you can drive in winter
Winter shuts the high passes, but it does not end the driving year.
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