Austria, Tyrol
Passes in every direction, with the Timmelsjoch, the Silvretta and Stelvio all in range.
First instinct from Innsbruck: head west up the Inn valley.
Scored roads in range
12
Nearest great road
21 mi
Best rated nearby
9.9 / 10
Shortest full loop
2 hr 23 min
Checked by the Drivers Atlas desk
Scored and written by the Drivers Atlas editorial desk, drawing on driven routes across the UK and Europe, mapping data and member road reports. Every road in the library carries a driving and scenery score set by the same method. How we score roads.
Last reviewed 25 April 2026
Under 60 km from the centre
Close enough for an evening run or a Sunday morning before the traffic wakes up.
Roughly 5 hr 16 min of driving if you string the lot together and come back the way you came.
29 mi away · Tyrol and South Tyrol
A high toll road crossing into Italy with a dramatic glass museum perched at the summit.
30 km · 18.6 mi · Atlas rating 9.5 / 10
37 mi away · Tyrol
A narrow Tyrolean pass of relentless corners, a local secret for years.
30 km · 18.6 mi · Atlas rating 9.1 / 10
21 mi away · Tyrol
A balcony road along the valley wall with the Zillertal spread out beneath it.
48 km · 29.8 mi · Atlas rating 8.9 / 10
34 mi away · Tyrol and Salzburg, Austria
A scenic connector road ending near Austria's tallest waterfalls at Krimml.
30 km · 18.6 mi · Atlas rating 8.4 / 10
60 to 150 km from the centre
Far enough to feel like a proper trip, close enough to be home for dinner.
Roughly 9 hr 1 min of driving if you string the lot together and come back the way you came.
68 mi away · Lombardy and South Tyrol, Italy
Eighty four hairpins stacked above the treeline make this Europe's most theatrical mountain pass.
49 km · 30.4 mi · Atlas rating 9.9 / 10
68 mi away · Salzburg and Carinthia, Austria
Austria's grandest high alpine road climbs to Franz Josefs Hohe beneath the country's tallest peak.
48 km · 29.8 mi · Atlas rating 9.8 / 10
53 mi away · Dolomites
Four Dolomite passes in a single circuit of the Sella massif, the finest loop in Europe.
55 km · 34.2 mi · Atlas rating 9.7 / 10
54 mi away · Trentino and South Tyrol, Italy
Sheer Dolomite towers on both sides make this short link one of the world's great scenic drives.
11 km · 6.8 mi · Atlas rating 9.6 / 10
62 mi away · Veneto, Italy
Twenty nine hairpins climb to a wide open saddle ringed by the jagged Cinque Torri.
17 km · 10.6 mi · Atlas rating 9.6 / 10
150 to 400 km from the centre
Leave early, take the long way back and make a day of it.
Roughly 15 hr 32 min of driving if you string the lot together and come back the way you came.
153 mi away · Bernese Oberland
Three of the best passes in the Alps stitched into one loop back to the same valley.
120 km · 74.6 mi · Atlas rating 9.6 / 10
125 mi away · Julian Alps
Fifty numbered hairpins, twenty four of them cobbled, over the highest pass in Slovenia.
47 km · 29.2 mi · Atlas rating 9.5 / 10
143 mi away · Ticino, Switzerland
A cobbled historic switchback climb that predates the modern Gotthard highway entirely.
13 km · 8.1 mi · Atlas rating 9.5 / 10
145 mi away · Bern and Uri, Switzerland
A flowing, beautifully engineered road beneath the Steingletscher ice cliffs.
47 km · 29.2 mi · Atlas rating 9.4 / 10
149 mi away · Valais and Uri, Switzerland
Bond film hairpins skirt the Rhone Glacier on this high, exposed Alpine crossing.
16 km · 9.9 mi · Atlas rating 9.4 / 10
120 mi away · Julian Alps
The highest road in Slovenia, blasted through rock tunnels to a 2072 metre saddle.
12 km · 7.5 mi · Atlas rating 9.3 / 10
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