The world’s best driving roads, hand-checked
Legendary passes, coastal sweeps and mountain hairpins. Every road drawn from its real geometry, written up honestly and checked by a human. No scraped lists, no guesswork.
566 roads27 countries80 world iconsfact-checked by a human
Driving holidays
Grand Tours
Whole driving holidays, built like everything else here: by hand. All tours ›
The Alpine Crown
The North Coast
A Welsh Weekend
The Dolomites in Three Days
The Route des Grandes Alpes
The Lake District Weekend
The Great Roads of Norway
The Wild Atlantic Three
The Great Divide
The bucket list
World Icons
The roads every driver should meet once. All 80 ›
Where to next
By country
The eight biggest catalogues. All 27 countries ›
United Kingdom
United States
France
Italy
Japan
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SpainWays in
Collections
Hand-curated themes, from alpine passes to screen legends. All 41 ›
World Icons
The world’s most iconic roads, hand-picked.
80 roads · 1,662 miAustrian Alps
Grossglockner, Silvretta and the high Tyrol
16 roads · 213 miGiro d’Italia Climbs
The legendary climbs of cycling’s Corsa Rosa, by car.
11 roads · 161 miThe Welsh Greats
Mountain passes and valley sweeps of Wales
19 roads · 207 miYorkshire Dales
Drystone walls and open-moor sweeps
8 roads · 96 miBlack Forest & Bavaria
Bavarian Alpine passes, Black Forest sweepers and Harz ridges
12 roads · 176 miWhy Routes
Built like a field guide, not a listicle
- Hand-checked factsEvery superlative, hazard and claim is verified before it ships. When we say a pass is the highest, it is.
- Real geometryEach line is the actual road from OpenStreetMap data, not an approximation. What you see is what you drive.
- Built for the driveThe Routes app adds the live map, weather windows, offline roadbooks and a passport of everywhere you have driven.
Stelvio Pass75 corners to 2,774 m · view the roadbook ›