Spectacular short mountain road in Spain, driveable only by bike, located in the Liebana zone, between the Autonomous Communities of Asturias and Cantabria. According to some informations and websites, some sections of the road could be driveable by small 4WD cars too.
Ekwulobia-Umunze Road is a 22.9km long road, between Ekwulobia, the largest city in Aguata zone and Umunze , Anambra State, located in south eastern Nigerian.
Bossu Road is a mountain road, located in the Okuti Valley, in Canterbury, (New Zealand), with a total length of 30,3 km.
Furgge pass is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 2.451m above the sea level, located in Breithorn, a mountain in the Pennine Alps, located close to the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
Valico della Fricca old tunnel is located in Centa San Nicolò (Italy), connecting the Venetian pre-Alps Val d'Astico and Lavarone, in Trentino.
U.S. Route 16A is a scenic United States highway, which divides from U.S. Route 16 in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The highway's eastern terminus is at a junction with US 16 called the Keystone Wye south of Rapid City, South Dakota. The western terminus is a junction with US 16 in Custer, South Dakota.
The Marmarole - Rifugio al Pian dei Buoi is situated in Lozzo di Cadore – Veneto (Italy) and belongs to the Dolomites-Alps, at an elevation of 1.786 m above the sea level.
The Capannelle Pass is a mountain pass in Italy. It sits at an altitude of 1.300 meters (4,265 ft) above sea level in the Province of L'Aquila in Italy's Abruzzo Region. It is located on the Italian State Highway 80 which passes near the Gran Sasso in the Apennines.
Passo d’Alpisella is a high mountain pass, located in the Livigno range (Italy), at an elevation of 2.285m (7497ft) above the sea level.
Klondike Bluffs Area Trails is a 16 miles round-trip of dirt road and slickrock located in Moab, Utah (USA), which begins 16 miles north of Moab on Highway 191, just north of mile marker 142.
Hoya de la Mora is a spectacular high mountain pass, located in Granada (Spain), in the Sierra Nevada Park, at an elevation of 2.550m above the sea level, on the A395 road.
Devil’s Highway is known as one of the twistiest roads in the US by motorcycle riders. Even the Federal Highway Administration considers this drive to be the curviest road in the nation.
Die Hel (otherwise known as Gamka's Kloof) is a valley locayed in the Swartberg Mountains in the Western Cape (South Africa).
The Passo del Bocco is a high mountain pass at 956 m above sea level in the Strada Provinciale 26bis, in the province of Genova, linking Mezzanego and Emilia-Romagna.
Tian Men Shan is located in Hunan province, the road is 10km from top to bottom. The highest point is 1300m above sea level, and the lowest point is 200m, the road took eight years to finish with work starting in 1998, and finishing in 2006.
The most famous alpine road leads you into the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park, to the highest mountain in Austria, the Grossglockner (3,798m) and its glacier, the Pasterze.
The China-Nepal Highway (also known as the Friendship Highway) is a scenic route on the Tibetan Plateau. It includes the westernmost part of China National Highway 318 from Lhasa west to Lhatse then south to Nepal as well as the southernmost part of China National Highway 219 from Lhatse to Gar in far western Tibet.
The Passo dello Spluga (Splügen Pass in german) is a high mountain pass (el. 2,113 m), in the SS36 road, which marks the boundary between the Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps.
The Bealach na Bà is a famous, twisting, single-track mountain road, rising to 626 metres (2,054 ft) in the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.
The highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps -and the second highest in the Alps, after the Col de l'Iseran (2770 m) which sits a mere 13 metres higher.-, the Stelvio Pass Road connects the Valtellina with the upper Adige valley and Merano.
The A682 is a narrow country road that runs between junction 13 of the M65 and Long Preston, a small village in the Yorkshire Dales. Is the worst road in England as it has claimed almost 100 fatalities over the last ten years.
This is a narrow busy dirt track that stretches from Patiopoulo to Perdikaki in Greece. This road is a steep climb or decent, it is dangerous because it has huge pot holes and very little grip for the vehicles that travel on it. It is a narrow road with a sheer drop on either side of its slope with no guard rails or an prevention to stop a vehicle from going over.
The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway or Alaska Route 11 runs for 414 miles between the Elliot Highway just north of the city of Fairbanks and Deadhorse near the Prud hoe Bay oil fields and the Arctic Ocean.
The Russian Federal Highway (M56 Kolyma Highway) connects Magadan and Yakutsk – actually, Nizhny Bestyakh on the eastern bank of Lena River at Yakutsk, where the coldest temperature ever recorded outside Antarctica was recorded.
This road is located in the Taihana Mountains in the Hunan Province of China and before its construction in 1972, access to Guoliana village was restricted to a treacherous path carved into the mountain face. Guoliang is also known as Guoliangcun. In Chinese, "cun" means "Village", i.e. Guoliangcun is the Village of Guoliang.
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D865 is a spectacular high mountain road in Turkey, running between the Black Sea and Çamlica Baraji.
The Pech river is located in Afghanistan. The Pech River system is fed from glaciers and snow from the Hindu Kushto its north. The river rises in central Nuristan Province and proceeds south and southeasternly through the center ofKunar Province, joining the Kunar River at the provincial capital of Asadabad.
D219 is one of the scariest roads in Europe. Impassable for two cars at the same time, driving this road becomes a challenge, with terrific cliffs in both sides.
Mount Kaliakouda is like a twin to Chelidona; seperated only by Karpenisiotis river, the two are of almost equal height. An ideal destination for adventure-seekers, it stands out for the wildness of its nature and thanks to its contiguity with other mountains, it may serve as a base for several days of exploration.
Dalsnibba is a mountain in the municipality of Stranda in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, at an elevation of 1,476 m (4,843 ft) above the sea level.
Monte Rite is a high mountain pass which belongs to the Dolomites-Alps, at an elevation of 2.183 m above the sea level, in Comune di Valle di Cadore (Italy).
Forcella Lavardet is a high mountain pass located on the Dolomites-Alps at an elevation of 1.542m above the sea level, on the municipality of Vigo di Cadore (Italy).
Morskie Oko is the largest and fourth deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains. It is located deep within the Tatra National Park, Poland, in the Rybi Potok Valley, at the base of the Mięguszowiecki Summits, in a region situated within the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Slickrock Bike Trail is part of the National Trails System, which is a network of scenic, historic, and recreation trails created by the National Trails System Act of 1968.
Amasa Back Trail is a 6 miles one way dirt road, located in Moab, Utah (USA), which begins five miles west of U.S. Highway 191 on the Kane Creek Road.
Puerto Rico Highway 191 or PR-191 is a rural road located in easten Puerto Rico and is the main access to the El Yunque National Forest.
Swansea was a copper mining town around the turn of the century. It lies northeast of Bouse, AZ, south of the Bill Williams River. It has been abandoned for about 60 years and there are still many ruins that can be carefully explored.
The road between Chacas and Huaraz is a short trip, but the dangerousity of the road makes that the trip takes longer than 4 hours.
The M41, known informally and more commonly as the Pamir Highway is a road traversing the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia.
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the greatest driving road in the world. Stretching for 7.3 miles and climbing nearly 4,000 feet, it boasts 60 corners and a surface so smooth that it would flatter a racetrack.
The GT Road, often called as the "Gernaili Sadak" (the Generals' Road) and Sadak-e-Azam ('The Grand Road') was built by Sher Shah Suri, a visionary Muslim ruler of the Indian sub continent in the 16th century AD.
Halsema Highway is considered one of the most dangerous highways in the world. Everyday, commuters, transporters, tourists, and residents coming from Baguio or Mt. Province ply this route, braving steep crags, narrow, unpaved roads and sheer drop offs, some more than 1000 feet, without a safety guard rail.
El espinazo del diablo or The devils backbone is the mountain pass in Durango, Mexico, It's about 5 hours long road, and it was the only road from Durango to Mazatlan Sinaloa for a long time.
Col de l'Iseran (elevation 2770 m) is the highest paved mountain pass in the Alps. A part of the Graian Alps, it is situated in the department of Savoie in France near the border with Italy. It is crossed by the D902.
The skippers Canyon Road, located in New Zealand, is unbelievably scary as it’s totally narrow and different to manouvre your car.
Trollstigen (The Troll Ladder) is a mountain road in Rauma, Norway, part of Norwegian National Road 63 connecting Åndalsnes in Rauma and Valldal in Norddal.
Van Zyl's Pass, or the DR3703, Namibia, is a classic extreme road. not really a road, just a route made over the mountain by travellers over time, really.
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, a high-elevation road between Chengdu and Tibet where landslides and rock avalanches are common, is undoubtedly part of the problem.
Ruta 5 in Chile runs from the Peruvian border, connecting with Ruta 1 19km north of Arica, down to Puerto Montt where it connects via ferry to Chiloé island. This major road is a bypass of the country’s capital, Santiago.
The North Yungas Road is by far the most dangerous on the planet, so dangerous that it has earned the epithet of ‘Death Road’. The road covers a 70km stretch between La Paz and Coroico over a decent of 3,600m with ridiculously tight hairpins and narrow passages to navigate, all whilst trying to avoid a sheer 800m drop.
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