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Icefields Parkway - Also known as Highway 93, this 232 km road in Alberta winds through the Rockies, connecting Banff and Jasper. It transports drivers into a utopic Ice Age featuring giant glaciers, turquoise alpine lakes, and waterfalls cascading from jagged peaks.

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Icefields Parkway - Though you could traverse the whole parkway in a couple hours, this road will take you a lot longer since it's impossible to not pull over and stand slack-jawed in front of some of nature's best work.

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Icefields Parkway - Places you should definitely try to stop: Lake Louise, Crowfoot Glacier, Bow and Peyto Lakes, and Athabasca Falls.

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Cabot Trail - One of the most famous road trips in Canada loops the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia for 300 km and hugs the coastline the whole way, meaning outstanding sea views at every curve.

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Cabot Trail - The route attracts visitors from around the world, and while the whole trail only takes a few hours to drive, tourists usually spend a day or two indulging in the Cape Breton charm, lush landscape, and Celtic and Acadian culture.

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Cabot Trail - If you feel the need to stretch your legs, do yourself a favour and try out some of the incredible hikes, like the Skyline Trail or the Cabot Trail.

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Sea to Sky Highway - This 150 km portion of Highway 99 North links Vancouver to Whistler and offers breathtaking views of lakes, mountains, fjords, inlets, waterfalls, and everything else British Columbia is famous for.

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Sea to Sky Highway - Stop at Shannon Falls, British Columbia's third-largest waterfall, as well as the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, where you can find one of the country's most gorgeous views.

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Fundy Coastal Drive - This 460 km New Brunswick route from St. Stephen to Aulac is a whale-watcher's dream, and along the way you can stop and explore some of the many coastal islands and mudflats along the shore.

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Fundy Coastal Drive - Twice a day, the Bay of Fundy fills and empties its 100 billion tonnes of water. In some areas you can see tides of more than 50 ft!

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Montreal to Gaspé Peninsula - This nine-hour journey takes you along the St. Lawrence River, through Montreal and Quebec City, and onward to the Gaspé Peninsula. It is rich with pine forests and towering cliffs.

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The Okanagan Valley - This is a drive for the road-trippers who are really just foodies on wheels. It's best to circle the British Columbia's Okanagan Valley clockwise from Vernon to Penticton, then to Kelowna, and stop at as many farm-to-table restaurants and award-winning wineries as you can.

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The Okanagan Valley - Stop at RauDZ Regional Table—the best restaurant in Kelowna—for a fresh meal made from local ingredients, and taste all the wine your liver can handle at Summerhill Pyramid Winery while soaking up the incredible view.

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Acadian Coastal Drive - Hugging New Brunswick's shore tighter than an old pair of jeans, this drive passes sandy beaches, rolling dunes, picturesque bays, and tiny towns overflowing with Acadian history.

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Acadian Coastal Drive - Don't run the route from Moncton to Bathurst without making a pit stop at one of the mouth-watering seafood shacks and restaurants that dot the shoreline for some traditional Acadian grub!

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Vancouver Island - Vancouver Island is one of Canada's greatest natural highlights, and this 150 km stretch of the Pacific Rim Highway runs from Parksville to Tofino, inundating your windshield with the stunning sights of rainforests, mountains, and rugged coastlines.

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Vancouver Island - Be sure to stop at Cowichan Valley to stretch your legs in its orchards and vineyards, then at Cathedral Grove for some good ol' tree-hugging, and spend some time in Tofino to enjoy some surfing (or just watching the waves crash while vegetating on the beach).

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Dempster Highway - One of the most unique scenic drives in the country, this 740 km road is Canada's only all-weather road across the Arctic Circle, and it connects Dawson City, Yukon, to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories.

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Dempster Highway - The road is unpaved and isolated, with only one accommodation option along the way, but those who brave the two-lane road are treated to unparalleled views of the tundra and all its wildlife.

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Georgian Bay Coastal Route - Starting in Toronto and looping around Ontario's Georgian Bay, this route features some of Canada's most stunning scenery, including the thousands of islands that can be spotted from the 2,000 km shoreline.

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Georgian Bay Coastal Route - Be sure to stop at Bruce Peninsula, Parry Sound, Killarney Park, Manitoulin Island, and Wasaga Beach—at each of those places you can kick off your shoes and run into the water to wash off that road-trip smell that's been accumulating between your toes.

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The Viking Trail - Driving this 490 km Newfoundland route from Gros Morne to St. Anthony is like entering a time machine that transports you back hundreds of years ago when the vikings first made their home in Canada.

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The Viking Trail - The route hugs the coast and offers amazing in-car views, but be sure to stop at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gros Morne National Park, for a beautiful hike, and then at the L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site to see the thousand-year-old viking settlement.

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Badlands Trail - Vastly different from many of Canada's most popular scenic drives, Alberta's Badlands Trail offers an otherworldly landscape that is sparse yet powerful.

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Badlands Trail - The route loops through Calgary, Drumheller, Medicine Hat, and Lethbridge, but make sure you stop in Drumheller to check out one of the world's largest dinosaur fossil reserves in the world.

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St. Lawrence Route - This Quebec route is short but so, so sweet. It covers 50 km on Highway 362 and takes you along the shores of the St. Lawrence River for some of the most picturesque views between Baie-Saint-Paul and La Malbaie.

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Hwy 60 - Algonquin Park Corridor - This Ontario drive cuts through one of Canada's most famous parks, Algonquin, which covers 7,725 sq km of breathtaking lakes and forests, bogs and rivers, cliffs and beaches.

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Hwy 60 - Algonquin Park Corridor - For all the road-trippers keen on camping, this gorgeous route also connects to eight campgrounds, as well as 14 expansive and diverse hiking trails. Just keep an eye out for moose!

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Trans-Canada Highway - The most epic and scenic drives of all is inevitably the one that takes you from one end of the country to the other. It starts in Victoria and ends in St. John's in Newfoundland, and along the way you'll fill your heart to the brim with beauty and a love for this ridiculously astonishing country.

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