Region guide
The best driving roads in Scotland
43 hand-picked driving roads in Scotland, every one mapped from real geometry and fact-checked, including 2 world icons.
Roads432 world icons
Combined699miles of driving
High point673metres · 2208 ft
Scotland is the finest driving country in Britain, and it is not close. The Highlands stack single-track passes, sea-loch sweeps and empty A-roads into drives that run for hours without a dull mile, from the hairpins of the Bealach na Bà to the long haul of the North Coast 500. These are the ones we have driven, mapped and checked.

Loch Eck

Arran Coast Road

Glen Aray

Quiraing and the Trotternish Loop

Rannoch Moor

Glen Etive

Broadford to Elgol

Loch Eriboll & Durness

Mull West Coast Road

Mam Ratagan to Glenelg

Glen Affric

Road to the Isles

Ardnamurchan Peninsula Road

Loch Ness South Military Road

Pass of Brander

Destitution Road

Glen Carron

Glen Lyon

Glen Nevis Road

Grey Mare's Tail & St Mary's Loch

Dirrie More

Cairngorm Mountain Road

Mull of Galloway

Assynt & Lochinver

Kylesku

Loch Laggan

Loch Maree & Wester Ross

Carter Bar

The Queen's Way

Loch Lomond

Appin Coast

Oban to Lochgilphead

Pass of Drumochter

Glen Ogle

Glen Torridon

Braemore to Ullapool

Glen Shiel

The Duke's Pass

Cairnwell Pass

Rest and Be Thankful

The Snow Road

Glencoe
