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Fifty drives across every province and territory we can reach by road. Roll the windows down, and let the country choose your soundtrack.
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Editors' Picks
Chosen by our editors for balance rather than popularity — a coast, a mountain range, a northern expedition and a weekend escape, each with a reason attached. The full collection of every road trip sits below.
Best for first-time visitorsAlberta
If you only ever drive one Canadian road, the glacier corridor between Lake Louise and Jasper is the one that ruins every other mountain highway for you.
Best coastal driveNova Scotia
Highlands falling straight into the Atlantic, Gaelic and Acadian culture in the same loop, and a fiddle in every second pub.
Best fall-colour routeOntario
The Highway 60 corridor turns scarlet for roughly a fortnight each autumn, and no other drive in the country concentrates colour like it.
Best northern adventureYukon & NWT
Gravel all the way to the Arctic coast — the most serious, most rewarding self-drive expedition Canada offers.
Best family road tripPrince Edward Island
Short driving days, red-sand beaches, lighthouses and lobster suppers, with almost nothing that can go wrong.
Best wildlife routeQuébec
Route 138 runs beside a protected marine feeding area where belugas are resident and big baleen whales gather in season.
Best food-and-culture journeyOntario
Canada's warmest growing season, three distinct wine regions and the southernmost point of the mainland in one unhurried weekend.
Best weekend escapeBritish Columbia
Forty minutes from Vancouver by ferry and an entire mood away — oyster shacks, tidal rapids and a highway that ends at Lund.
Best mountain driveBritish Columbia
Passes, lake ferries and silver-rush main streets, with a hot spring waiting at the end of nearly every day.
Best under-the-radar routeSaskatchewan
Nobody pictures Saskatchewan as granite, pine and a thousand lakes — which is exactly why this one is still quiet.
Best cross-country experienceOntario, Québec & Atlantic Canada
Four provinces from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic, with Montréal, Québec City and the Fundy tides strung along the way.
Best summer road tripOntario
Turquoise water against white limestone, a ferry to the world's largest freshwater island, and swimming weather to match.
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Route 01 / 50Alberta
The most scenic drive in the world, according to almost everyone who's done it.
Lake Louise to Jasper through a corridor of glaciers, turquoise lakes, and roadside grizzlies.
Route 02 / 50Nova Scotia
Where the Highlands meet the Atlantic, and Celtic music spills out of every pub.
A loop around Cape Breton's wild northern coast, with whale-watching, hikes, and lobster suppers.
Route 03 / 50British Columbia
From cruise-ship harbour to ski-town gondola in a single, cinematic afternoon.
Vancouver to Whistler along the Howe Sound fjord — waterfalls, granite walls, and ocean on one side.
Route 04 / 50Québec
A French-speaking coastline of fishing villages, sea cliffs, and lighthouse-flecked headlands.
A grand loop around Québec's eastern peninsula where the St. Lawrence meets the open Atlantic.
Route 05 / 50New Brunswick
The world's highest tides, on a schedule you can plan a road trip around.
From St. Stephen to Aulac along the Bay of Fundy — sea stacks, whale watching, and tidal bores.
Route 06 / 50Yukon & NWT
Gravel, tundra, and the only public road in Canada that crosses the Arctic Circle.
Dawson City to Inuvik — a wilderness drive through the Tombstone Range and across the Arctic Circle.
Route 07 / 50Newfoundland
From a UNESCO geological wonder to the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America.
Deer Lake to L'Anse aux Meadows along Route 430 — fjords, fossils, and Viking longhouses on Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.
Route 08 / 50British Columbia & Alberta
The quieter southern alternative to the Trans-Canada — Rockies, wineries, and ghost towns.
Hope to Medicine Hat along Highway 3 — through the Okanagan, the Kootenays, and the Crowsnest Pass.
Route 09 / 50Ontario
Winston Churchill called it the prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world.
Niagara-on-the-Lake to Fort Erie along the Niagara River — wineries, the Falls, and Loyalist heritage.
Route 10 / 50Yukon & Alaska
A ridge-top gravel road from Dawson City to Alaska — closed half the year, surreal the other half.
The Yukon River ferry, the highest border crossing in Canada, and one of the most photographed drives in the North.
Route 11 / 50British Columbia
Two coasts, one island — from British garden capital to storm-battered surf beaches.
Victoria to Port Hardy via Tofino — a full loop of the Pacific coast, old-growth forests, and orca waters.
Route 12 / 50British Columbia
Canada's most concentrated wine country, wrapped around a chain of warm lakes.
Osoyoos to Vernon along Highways 97 and the Naramata Bench — 200+ wineries, lake beaches, and desert vineyards.
Route 13 / 50Alberta
The foothills highway where the Rockies meet the ranchlands of the Old West.
Waterton Lakes to Mayerthorpe along Highway 22 — cattle country, foothills panoramas, and rodeo towns.
Route 14 / 50Ontario
The wild north shore of the world's largest freshwater lake.
Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay on Highway 17 — through Lake Superior Provincial Park, Pukaskwa, and the Group of Seven's landscape.
Route 15 / 50Québec
From Québec City through a UNESCO Biosphere to Canada's only true fjord.
Québec City to Tadoussac via Baie-Saint-Paul and the Saguenay Fjord — art villages, whales, and cliffside auberges.
Route 16 / 50Prince Edward Island
Three signature loops around Canada's smallest province — beaches, lighthouses, and Anne of Green Gables.
The Points East, Central Coastal, and North Cape drives — red-sand cliffs, oyster villages, and PEI National Park.
Route 17 / 50British Columbia & Yukon
The great WWII engineering feat — 1,900 km of northern British Columbia and the Yukon.
Dawson Creek to the Alaska border via Fort Nelson, Muncho Lake, Liard Hot Springs, and Whitehorse — bison, hot springs, and the Signpost Forest.
Route 18 / 50British Columbia
The road across Vancouver Island to Canada's Pacific edge.
Parksville to Tofino on Route 4 — Cathedral Grove, surf beaches, and the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
Route 19 / 50Alberta
Alberta's quieter Rockies — Highway 40 through the highest paved pass in Canada.
Canmore to Longview via Highway 40 and the Highwood Pass — alpine meadows, larch groves, and grizzly country half an hour from Calgary.
Route 20 / 50British Columbia & Alberta
Four national parks in a single mountain crossing on the Trans-Canada.
Calgary to Revelstoke on Highway 1 through Banff, Yoho, Glacier, and Mount Revelstoke — the mainline Rockies drive.
Route 21 / 50Ontario
Ontario's freshwater coast — from the Bruce Peninsula to Killarney's white quartzite hills.
Collingwood to Killarney via Tobermory and Parry Sound — the world's largest freshwater archipelago, painted by the Group of Seven.
Route 22 / 50Ontario
A scenic parkway along the St. Lawrence past 1,864 islands and Canada's smallest national park.
Gananoque to Brockville — the free scenic alternative to the 401 through Thousand Islands National Park.
Route 23 / 50Québec
Québec's wine and cheese country, on the Vermont border.
Bromont to North Hatley via Sutton, Magog, and Mont-Orford — Loyalist villages, monastic cheese, and Lake Memphrémagog.
Route 24 / 50New Brunswick
The living coast of Acadian New Brunswick, from Shediac lobsters to Caraquet's tricolour villages.
Shediac to Campbellton via Bouctouche, Kouchibouguac National Park, and the Acadian Peninsula — French-speaking villages, warm-water beaches, and the world's largest lobster.
Route 25 / 50Alberta
The Alberta Badlands where the Cretaceous still lies open at the surface.
Drumheller loop via the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Horseshoe Canyon, and Dinosaur Provincial Park (UNESCO).
Route 26 / 50Saskatchewan
Canada's darkest sky, the last mixed-grass prairie, and bison at large.
Regina to Val Marie via Grasslands National Park and the Cypress Hills — dark-sky preserves, prairie coulees, and the T. rex fossil belt.
Route 27 / 50Manitoba
Icelandic Manitoba between two great lakes.
Winnipeg to Hecla Island via Gimli and Grand Beach — Nordic heritage, warm-water beaches, and Lake Winnipeg's fishing communities.
Route 28 / 50Ontario
The Ottawa River road that trades urban Ottawa for Algonquin's eastern gate.
Ottawa to Barry's Bay via Arnprior and Pembroke — the Ottawa River, Polish heritage villages, and the wild eastern approach to Algonquin.
Route 29 / 50Newfoundland
Newfoundland's southern shore where Irish accents survive and puffins arrive by the tens of thousands.
St. John's loop via Witless Bay, Ferryland, and Cape Race — puffins, icebergs, and a 17th-century Colony of Avalon dig.
Route 30 / 50Northwest Territories
Yellowknife's back-door road to Precambrian lakes and canoe country.
Yellowknife to Tibbitt Lake — waterfalls, canoe-country lakes, and the Cameron Falls trail 50 km from the capital.
Route 31 / 50British Columbia
A coastline you can only reach by boat, forty minutes from downtown Vancouver.
Ferry-hopping Highway 101 from Langdale to Lund — inlets, oyster shacks, artist studios and the end of the road.
Route 32 / 50British Columbia
Mountain passes, silver-rush towns and a soak at the end of every day.
A southeastern BC loop through Nelson, Kaslo, Nakusp and Revelstoke, linking hot springs, lake ferries and heritage main streets.
Route 33 / 50British Columbia
Follow the river that built British Columbia, one canyon wall at a time.
Hope to Barkerville through the Fraser Canyon's tunnels and gorges, then up the Cariboo Wagon Road into gold-rush country.
Route 34 / 50British Columbia
An archipelago at the edge of the map, reached by an overnight crossing.
Graham Island end to end — Skidegate to Tow Hill — through rainforest, long empty beaches and Haida cultural centres.
Route 35 / 50Alberta
Where the grassland stops and the mountains start, with nothing in between.
Lethbridge to Waterton via Head-Smashed-In, the Cowboy country foothills and Alberta's wind-scoured southern prairie.
Route 36 / 50Alberta
The Rockies without the queue for parking.
Rocky Mountain House to Saskatchewan River Crossing on Highway 11 — canyons, a big turquoise reservoir and almost no traffic.
Route 37 / 50Manitoba
An island of forest and bison rising straight out of the wheat.
Winnipeg to Riding Mountain National Park via the Manitoba Escarpment, Neepawa and the Parkland's lake country.
Route 38 / 50Saskatchewan
The prairie province nobody pictures: granite, pine and a thousand lakes.
Prince Albert to La Ronge and the Hanson Lake Road — boreal shield country, paddling water and northern-lights skies.
Route 39 / 50Ontario
The best three weeks of the Ontario year, driven end to end.
Huntsville through Algonquin's Highway 60 corridor and the Haliburton Highlands, timed to peak maple colour.
Route 40 / 50Ontario
Caribbean water, limestone cliffs and the world's largest freshwater island.
Owen Sound to Tobermory, across the Chi-Cheemaun ferry to Manitoulin Island, and back down the Georgian Bay shore.
Route 41 / 50Ontario
Canada's warmest growing season, one tasting room at a time.
Niagara-on-the-Lake through the Twenty Valley and along the Lake Erie north shore to Point Pelee's southern tip.
Route 42 / 50Ontario
Thunder Bay to the Manitoba line, through more lakes than you can count.
Sleeping Giant, Kakabeka Falls, Quetico's gateway and Lake of the Woods — the emptiest great drive in Ontario.
Route 43 / 50Québec
Follow Route 138 until the road runs out.
Tadoussac to Havre-Saint-Pierre along the north shore of the St. Lawrence — whales, dunes and the Mingan monoliths.
Route 44 / 50Québec
An hour from Montréal, and a different century.
Montréal to Mont-Tremblant through Saint-Sauveur, Val-David and the Laurentian lake villages.
Route 45 / 50Québec
The south shore, where the river becomes the sea.
Québec City to Rimouski along Route 132 — lighthouses, island ferries, farm tables and the widest sunsets in Québec.
Route 46 / 50Nova Scotia
Orchards, tidal bores and the highest tides on Earth.
Halifax to Brier Island through Wolfville's wine country, Annapolis Royal's history and the Fundy shore.
Route 47 / 50Nova Scotia
Peggy's Cove, Lunenburg and every fishing harbour in between.
Halifax to Yarmouth on Highway 3 — the most photographed coastline in Atlantic Canada, done properly and slowly.
Route 48 / 50Newfoundland
Puffins, icebergs and outport Newfoundland at its most photogenic.
St. John's to the Bonavista Peninsula via Trinity, Elliston's puffins and the Discovery Trail's cliff-edge villages.
Route 49 / 50Yukon
The gold-rush route, from a coastal port over the pass to the Klondike.
Skagway to Whitehorse and on to Dawson City — White Pass, Emerald Lake, Carcross Desert and the Klondike goldfields.
Route 50 / 50Ontario, Québec & Atlantic Canada
Four provinces, three languages of hospitality, one continuous road.
Toronto to Halifax overland — Thousand Islands, Montréal, Québec City, the Fundy shore and the Nova Scotia coast.
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