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The longest great driving roads in the world
Some roads are a corner; others are a journey. These are the longest single drives in our catalogue, the routes that fill a day or spill into the next, ranked by distance. Every mile is measured from the real road, so the numbers are honest.
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1
165 mi5 h 15 min
Route 132 Gaspe Coast
Sainte-Anne-des-Monts to Perce along the cliff-lined Gaspe coast of the St.
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2
148 mi4 h 31 min
Dempster Highway
Canada's iconic all-gravel road north from the Klondike toward the Arctic Circle.
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3
106 mi3 h 31 min
Putty Road
Legendary 160km biker run from Windsor to Singleton through forest and the Hunter hills.
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4
83 mi2 h 31 min
Vildmarksvagen (Wilderness Road)
Sweden's highest paved through-route over the bare Stekenjokk plateau
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5
82 mi2 h 29 min
Lofoten E10
Island-hopping coastal highway through Lofoten's jagged peaks from Svolvaer to road's end at A
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6
73 mi2 h 27 min
North Cascades Highway
A wild crossing of the jagged North Cascades.
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7
73 mi2 h 34 min
Moonshiner 28 (NC 28)
Old moonshine-running route of sweepers and twisties from Deals Gap toward Highlands.
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8
72 mi2 h 18 min
Milford Road
Te Anau to Milford Sound through wild Fiordland.
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9
68 mi2 h 30 min
Great Alpine Road
Australia's highest year-round sealed road over Mount Hotham.
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10
65 mi2 h 10 min
Banff-Windermere Parkway
Historic mountain road through Kootenay National Park.
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11
64 mi2 h 14 min
Beartooth Highway
Switchbacks to nearly 11,000 ft on the Montana–Wyoming line.
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12
62 mi2 h 4 min
Sea-to-Sky Highway
Coastal mountain highway from Horseshoe Bay to Whistler.
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13
61 mi2 h 8 min
Cabot Trail
Cape Breton's clifftop highland crossing through a national park.
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14
61 mi2 h 2 min
Sawtooth Scenic Byway
Idaho State Highway 75 over 8701ft Galena Summit, with the jagged Sawtooth peaks filling the valley below.
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15
61 mi2 h 13 min
Duffey Lake Road
Wild alpine pass from Pemberton to Lillooet.
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16
60 mi2 h 13 min
Oxley Highway
Australia's iconic motorcycling road, hundreds of corners from Wauchope up to Walcha.
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17
60 mi1 h 55 min
Lewis Pass
The northernmost Southern Alps crossing, sweeping through unbroken beech forest on SH7.
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18
58 mi1 h 57 min
Tioga Pass
Yosemite's high country crossing, the highest highway pass in the Sierra Nevada.
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19
57 mi1 h 53 min
Angeles Crest Highway
A long, sweeping mountain road in the San Gabriels above Los Angeles.
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20
56 mi1 h 43 min
Stora Sjöfallet Ritsem Road
Paved dead-end road to the Sarek wilderness gateway.
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21
53 mi1 h 41 min
Caves Road
A winding tunnel of karri forest and vineyards running the length of the Margaret River wine country between two capes.
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22
53 mi1 h 40 min
Talimena Scenic Drive
A 54-mile ridge-crest run along Oklahoma State Highway 1 and Arkansas Highway 88, riding the spine of the Winding Stair and Rich Mountains through the Ouachita National Forest between Talihina and Mena.
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23
52 mi1 h 39 min
Cascade Lakes Highway
High Cascades byway past volcanoes and alpine lakes.
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24
51 mi1 h 43 min
Sognefjellet
The highest mountain-pass road in Northern Europe.
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25
51 mi1 h 38 min
Kootenay Skyway (Crowsnest Highway)
Salmo to Creston over Canada's highest year-round pass, the Salmo-Creston Skyway.
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26
51 mi1 h 37 min
Cherohala Skyway
A high, sweeping skyway over the Unicoi Mountains.
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27
50 mi1 h 45 min
Going-to-the-Sun Road
A cliff-carved climb over the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park.
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28
49 mi1 h 48 min
Sonora Pass
A steep, narrow crossing of the Sierra Nevada with sharp gradients.
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29
49 mi1 h 33 min
Haast Pass
Lowest road crossing of the Southern Alps, rainforest to lakes.
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30
48 mi1 h 36 min
Lindis Pass
Highest point on the South Island state highway network.
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