Region guide
The best driving roads in the Western USA
49 hand-picked driving roads in the Western USA, every one mapped from real geometry and fact-checked, including 10 world icons.
Roads4910 world icons
Combined1392miles of driving
High point4329metres · 14203 ft
The Western United States is the home of the great American drive: the passes of the Rockies and the Sierra, the Pacific Coast Highway and the red-rock byways of the desert Southwest. These are the best we have mapped and checked.
Going-to-the-Sun Road
Beartooth Highway
Million Dollar Highway
Pikes Peak Highway
Trail Ridge Road
Mount Evans Road
Pacific Coast Highway, Big Sur
Tioga Pass
Independence Pass
Road to Hana
Sonora Pass
Angeles Crest Highway
Crater Lake Rim Drive
Historic Columbia River Highway
Olympic 101 Lake Crescent
Scenic Byway 12 Hogback
Chinook Pass (Mather Memorial Parkway)
Zion–Mount Carmel Highway
Avenue of the Giants
Kings Canyon Scenic Byway
Lolo Pass
North Cascades Highway
Mount Baker Highway
Catalina Highway (Mount Lemmon)
Coronado Trail
Ebbetts Pass
Glacier Point Road
McKenzie Pass
Needles Highway
Teton Pass
Cascade Lakes Highway
Chief Joseph Scenic Byway
Iron Mountain Road
Apache Trail
Lassen Park Highway
Logan Canyon Scenic Byway
Moki Dugway
Slumgullion Pass
Rim of the World Highway
Chuckanut Drive
Hells Canyon Scenic Byway (Forest Road 39)
Sandia Crest Road
Stevens Canyon Road
Sawtooth Scenic Byway
Burr Trail
Cedar Breaks Scenic Byway
Whitney Portal Road
Mount Hamilton Road
