United States
48 scored American roads across 22 states, from paved Colorado summits above 4,000 metres to a hundred miles of bridge across the Florida Keys. Pick a state and the library reorders itself around it.
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CA · 6 roads
The deepest set of great roads in the country, from Big Sur cliffs to Sierra passes and canyon roads that start inside Los Angeles.
Top road: Highway 1, Big Sur · 90.1 mi · 9.5 / 10
CO · 6 roads
High altitude driving at its purest, with paved roads above 4,000 metres and a run of passes no other state can match.
Top road: Million Dollar Highway · 24.9 mi · 9.5 / 10
TN · 4 roads
Home of the Dragon, and of several quieter roads locals prefer once the summer coach traffic arrives.
Top road: Tail of the Dragon, US129 · 11.2 mi · 9.3 / 10
NC · 3 roads
Appalachian ridge driving with the two most famous corner sequences on the east coast within an hour of each other.
Top road: Tail of the Dragon, US129 · 11.2 mi · 9.3 / 10
UT · 3 roads
Red rock scenery so relentless that ordinary connecting roads become memorable, and Byway 12 sits near the top of any national list.
Top road: Utah Scenic Byway 12 · 123 mi · 9.6 / 10
WY · 3 roads
Beartooth country, where the traffic thins to nothing and the road keeps climbing well past the tree line.
Top road: Beartooth Highway · 67.7 mi · 9.7 / 10
AZ · 2 roads
Desert distance broken by canyon climbs, with Oak Creek and the Monument Valley approach doing most of the heavy lifting.
Top road: Oak Creek Canyon, AZ 89A · 28 mi · 9.2 / 10
HI · 2 roads
Two very different classics, one a jungle coast road of six hundred corners and the other a climb from sea level to a volcanic summit.
Top road: Haleakala Highway · 23.6 mi · 9.3 / 10
MT · 2 roads
Two of the finest mountain roads in North America sit here, and both are gated by snow for half the year.
Top road: Beartooth Highway · 67.7 mi · 9.7 / 10
NH · 2 roads
White Mountain driving with a genuine toll climb to a summit and a notch road that turns golden in autumn.
Top road: Kancamagus Highway · 34.2 mi · 9 / 10
OR · 2 roads
The best coastal driving on the Pacific side outside California, plus a historic river highway built for the view rather than the schedule.
Top road: US 101 Oregon Coast · 366.6 mi · 9 / 10
VA · 2 roads
Long ridge line parkways where the pace is deliberately slow and the reward is a hundred miles of uninterrupted view.
Top road: Blue Ridge Parkway · 435 mi · 9.1 / 10
WA · 2 roads
Wet, green and mountainous, with a north cascades crossing that feels alpine and a ridge road climbing straight off the coast.
Top road: North Cascades Highway · 70.8 mi · 9.3 / 10
AL · 1 road
A short but scenic slice of the Natchez Trace, best treated as part of a longer parkway run.
Top road: Natchez Trace Parkway · 444.3 mi · 8.4 / 10
AK · 1 road
Scale that reframes what you think a long drive is, with a coastal highway out of Anchorage that ranks with anything in the lower 48.
Top road: Seward Highway · 126.8 mi · 9.3 / 10
AR · 1 road
Ozark and Ouachita country, where the roads are tight, the surfaces are good and the traffic is almost nonexistent.
Top road: Talimena Scenic Drive · 54.1 mi · 8.7 / 10
FL · 1 road
Flat, but the Overseas Highway is a genuine one off, a hundred miles of bridges laid across open ocean.
Top road: Overseas Highway · 111.8 mi · 8.6 / 10
ME · 1 road
Granite coast, working harbours and a park loop road that packs an enormous amount of scenery into a short circuit.
Top road: Acadia Park Loop Road · 26.7 mi · 8.7 / 10
MI · 1 road
Great Lakes shoreline driving, quiet outside the summer weeks, with a tunnel of hardwood that peaks in October.
Top road: Tunnel of Trees, M119 · 19.9 mi · 8.6 / 10
MS · 1 road
The Natchez Trace runs the length of the state as a commercial free parkway, which is a very particular kind of pleasure.
Top road: Natchez Trace Parkway · 444.3 mi · 8.4 / 10
NV · 1 road
Empty basin and range highways where you can see the next hour of driving ahead of you, plus one short desert road that outshines all of it.
Top road: Valley of Fire Road · 18 mi · 8.9 / 10
OK · 1 road
Better than its reputation, thanks to a ridge top drive along the Ouachita spine that runs into Arkansas.
Top road: Talimena Scenic Drive · 54.1 mi · 8.7 / 10