The World’s Most Remote Roads Worth Driving

There is a particular allure to a road that leads far from everything, and the problem is that the world’s most remote roads demand a level of self-sufficiency that the everyday driver never needs. These are not scenic drives so much as expeditions, and the reward for the preparation is a kind of isolation and landscape that the connected world has almost entirely erased.The Dalton Highway in Alaska is the archetype, a four-hundred-mile gravel road to the Arctic Ocean with a single stop for fuel and no services of any kind beyond it, and it is the closest most people come to true wilderness driving. The Dempster Highway in Canada’s Yukon pushes even further north to the Arctic coast, crossing the tundra with no settlements for hundreds of kilometers, and the Canning Stock Route in Australia, one of the most isolated tracks on Earth, demands weeks of fuel and water and a convoy for safety.The preparation is the entire subject, because on these roads a breakdown is not an inconvenience but a survival situation. Extra fuel, far more water than seems reasonable, a satellite communicator, a full-size spare or two, and the