Driving the Yellowhead Highway is, quite literally, a dream made real for James Hearne.

Canada has more than a million kilometres of roads to navigate. To says it’s a big country would be a massive understatement, and the driving adventures to be had are also on a very substantial scale.

The Icefields Parkway cuts through the Canadian Rockies at its finest. You’ll want to take this drive slow, reckons Kaya Lemaire.

A lap of the world’s largest freshwater lake will always make for an epic road trip, says Peter Carriveau.

Put on your warmest coat and your studded tyres and join us as we reveal ten of the world’s best winter road trips.

Nathan Munn recalls blazing a trail from the west to the east coast of Canada with his band in two VW vans.

As the best athletes in the world go for gold in Tokyo it got us thinking about the Olympics of driving – so we dived into our archives to bring you winning drives for the Detour Olympics.

At one turn Cape Breton Island will do a very passable impression of a southern California coastline, at another, you’d swear the west of Scotland has cut loose and floated across the Atlantic, reckons Gavin Conway.

Following in the wheeltracks of the Ice Road Truckers, Gavin Conway tackles one of the most extreme drives on the planet: the Yukon’s Dempster Highway.

It’s not just the scale of natural scenery that can take you by surprise on a road trip. Sometimes it’s the strangest man-made objects that catch you off-guard.

Through its 100 miles of gradual climbing, its flowing curves, sensational vistas and a couple of fabulous pit stops it turned a drive in a dreary Hyundai Santa Fe into one of my most memorable experiences.