Update: Please also check the second part of Most Dangerous Roads in the World
It’s hard to imagine how many dangerous roads there are. When working on this post I studied about 10 resources to find out that there are over 50 dangerous and scary roads and these are just the most famous we’ve heard of. There are different factors of danger so it’s really hard to say what roads are the most dangerous of all the dangerous roads in the world.
In our post today you will see the roads that are considered the most dangerous and that caught my attention because of the fact that the roads shouldn’t naturally be in those places. What I mean here is that it looks like the Nature has created the borders that shouldn’t be crossed using huge rocks, steep slopes, stones, volcanoes but the human beings were so stubborn that they finally erected the roads and trails, but what we still can’t do is ensure the safety. There’s always the risk that something will happen but the risk has never stopped the human yet.
North Yungas Road also known as the Road of Death is considered the most dangerous road in the world. It stretches for about 40 mountain-hugging miles and is only 10 feet wide.
The highway is made right on the mountains, it’s high, pretty narrow, cloudy and definitely dangerous. The overall length of the highway is 2,028 kilometers.
The Pan American Highway is a network of roads stretching for nearly about 30,000 miles from Alaska to the lower reaches of South America. This is the world’s longest “motorable road,” according to Guinness World Records. Some roads are widely knows by narrow curves, steep cliffs, flash floods and landslides.
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Compared to the other roads from our post, the coastal roads of Croatia may look childish, but that’s not the case. The coastal roads and the fast-driving Croats that crowd them probably account for more deaths and injuries than accidents associated with unexploded ordinance ever do.
The name of the tunnel translates from Chinese as the “Road that does not tolerate any mistakes”. First the tunnel was created by the villagers from the remote area of the Taihang Mountains to get a way out to the outside world. Presently the road is 15 feet high and 12 feet wide which is pretty scary for the drivers. The tunnel has 30 windows to enjoy the scenes.
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Magnificent but dangerous road on the island of Luzon. Apart from the unpaved parts of the roads, landslides and big stones you can be stopped by the clouds.
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Grimsel Pass which is 2165 m. high is a Swiss high mountain pass between the valley of the Rhone River and the Haslital valley. Taking into account you are on a mountain, you can’t expect much safety.
Taroko Mountain is a mountain in Taiwan with an elevation of 3,282 meters and it speaks for itself. Check the photos to get an idea of the little stones that can cross the road.
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Karakoram Highway is the highest paved road on the planet connecting Pakistan with China. It’s a popular tourist route, with motorists stopping to view K2 and other stratosphere-scraping peaks from the pavement.
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The Canyon road is carved from schist rock and travels through some of the most spectacular scenery in the New Zealand. That’s a narrow and unsealed road about 22 km long. Rental car companies warn clients not to take their cars on this dramatic and at times terrifying road which branches off the Coronet Peak ski field road.
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Stunning and incredible, along with scary!
its a very very dangoures
wow... very dangerous roads, nice post.
You are right about Croatian drivers ;-)
that right my friend
Some of these roads indeed seem very dangerous and yet I can imagine how beautiful it was to travel on some of these roads on good weather. I have had a few experience when I was traveling in the mountainous region in the Philippines when I traveling from Davao City to Dipolog. There was once when we were traveling at night in the mountain and it was so foggy that we can hardly see more than a metres ahead of the van. And in one part of the journey, our van's wheel got stuck in the mud but luckily we had so helping hands to get us out. :)
It was dangerous experience but memorable one.
quite honestly ive driving through the rocky mountains in B.C. (thats in canada eh :P) plenty of times, and these roads dont seem that much worse to me... some seem like they even have less wildlife around, which to me is a big plus
Jebus, just the thought of driving (my motorcycle) on any of these roads would put fear into my heart as I approach each turn, thinking "the person coming the other way doesn't know I'm coming and could be taking advantage of the full width of the road."
If the Road of Death in Bolivia is the one I'm thinking of it is absolutely terrifying! Some companies take groups on mountain bikes down it and the day I went there was a think fog and the only way you knew if there was traffic coming was if they were kind enough to keep beeping their horns for you! You were riding next to sheer cliff drops and to top it off a bus had rolled down the side a couple of weeks earlier and you could see the wreckage once the fog had cleared! Huge adrenalin rush to do it even if it was a bit stupid!
Road to hell!! Amazing post. Bookmarked. Keep up the good work.
Where's Poland??? :D
i loved these pictures very much. its interesting as they show peoples attempted to visit other places in the world. and because they needed to trade to survive. It means making roads regardless of danger. maybe fear for survival overwhelms the fear of heights. Or maybe because these people already live with heights all their lives they have zero fear.
oh well keep up the good work. kind Regards Dean Bradford (England)