Seven of the World's Most Spectacular Road Bridges
In Detour’s book there’s no such thing as a bridge too far. Leaving solid ground to shoot across the span of suspension bridge is the closest thing to flying you can experience behind the wheel. (Well at least until those flying cars we’ve been promised for decades finally arrive). Here are seven of our favourite crossings.
Australia’s Grand Pacific Drive is one of the most Instagram-friendly routes in the world. Honestly, just spend a few minutes on the planet’s most popular photo-sharing platform and you’ll find thousands of shots of this scenic Sydney adventure.
Skimming the Florida Keys just metres above sea level, the Overseas Highway links Miami to Key West via a series of spectacular long low-slung bridges.
Oresundsbron isn’t just a bridge - it’s a bridge, a man-made island and a tunnel that link Copenhagen in Denmark with Malmo in Sweden and is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary this year.
Rising 1,100ft from the floor of the Tarn gorge this Norman Foster designed wonder is the tallest bridge on the planet.
Eight bridges span a series of small islands, some so low that you feel you’re skimming the sea, while fishermen catch cod from the side. Others a roller coaster ride into the sky and down again.
Every year the road to Yongwu vanishes beneath the rising waters of Poyang Lake, yet daring drivers still brave the waves to cross.
Simon Heptinstall enjoys the most tranquil of Scottish road trips on the Isle of Bute.
Driving through towering ancient forests, Jamie Hearne finds inspiration in the sheer scale of nature.
As the journey that was 2024 nears an end, we look back on the most memorable road trips of the year.
’Tis the season to be driving. For many of us that might mean seasonal gridlock on the way to visit friends and family, but if you’re feeling a little more adventurous then check out these five festive drives.
Home to the legendary Bathurst 1000 race, the Mount Panorama circuit in New South Wales is actually a public road.
A few laps of a track, a blast into the hills above Seville and an insight into the life of a road tester, courtesy of Stephen Dobie.
The window of opportunity to drive into the wilds of Alaska’s Denali Highway is narrow.
When the creator and founder of the iconic NC 500 was looking for another epic UK driving route, he looked no further than Yorkshire.
As if the Futa and Raticosa passes of the Mille Miglia weren’t tough enough, Detour’s Nik Berg braves them in torrential rain. In Maserati’s MC20 supercar.
Cross The Bridge from Copenhagen to Malmö and murder feels never far away.
How could one resist a road dubbed “a poem in stone” or “the king of roads”?
If you’re heading up the M6 this Halloween you might want to call Ghostbusters.
Ben Barry takes a road-tripping, beach-hopping detour to Kefalonia – land of Greek myth and a Hollywood flop.
Terror took hold of the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard in 1975 when Jaws hit cinemas. Detour tracks the infamous shark sightings and movie locations on a road trip around the Massachusetts island.
Nik Berg gets misty-eyed as he recalls a childhood road trip.
Jamie Hearne takes his mobile home to where the buffalo still roam on a road trip through Wyoming.
From the awesome oval at Daytona to the Art Deco excess of Miami Florida is a must-visit destination for any auto enthusiast.
A roof-down road trip along the Kent coast from Margate to Dungeness reveals a gallery of art, nature and science.
Time to cosplay a Seventies Porsche development driver in the original ‘widowmaking’ 911 Turbo.
Imagine if all your favourite features were found on one single stretch of road. Twists, turns, climbs and falls, forests, tunnels, bridges and vistas to make you brake to standstill and grab your camera. It’s the smash hits of road trips: an incredible compilation album.