Random Most Dangerous Roads in the World (26 items)

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  (#21) Highway 550, Colorado

  Known as the “Million Dollar Highway,” Colorado’s 550 is also one of the most dangerous in America. It climbs three different mountain passes, with large variations in temperature and road grade. It’s narrow, steep (it has a 9% grade at times), and unforgiving, with some parts having no guard rails. It’s not too bad as far as mountain roads go, and plenty of people drive it, but it’s best to go slow and not get distracted by the views.

  How it got the nickname "Million Dollar Highway" is lost to history.
  
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  (#22) Route 138, California

  Cheerfully known as “Blood Alley” or the “Death Trap Highway,” the Pearblossom Highway runs from I-15 to Palmdale – and has a terrifying body count. The LA Times reports that during a single five year period from 1996 through 2000, CA-138 experienced 56 fatalities and another 875 injuries, including 410 serious injuries.

  The twisty, steep, two-lane road started to be modernized, but astonishingly, local residence fought the improvements tooth and nail. The project has stalled out – and drivers keep getting killed on America’s highway of death.
  
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  (#8) James Dalton Highway, Alaska

  Remote, isolated, and virtually guaranteed to kill you if you break down, the 414 mile Dalton Highway was built to support oil exploration in Alaska. There are just three towns along it, with a total population of 60 people.

  If you’re thinking of driving it in your Honda Civic, don’t. The giant trucks that ply the route kick up huge clouds of dust, reducing visibility to zero. Windshields and headlights are easily destroyed by flying rocks and debris. There are mammoth pot holes ready to destroy your tires or any other part of your car. Oh, and it’s freezing. Drive it only if you’ve got an SUV and a ton of supplies.
  
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  (#6) Way to Fairy Meadows, Pakistan

  You’d think with a cheerful name like “Way to Fairy Meadows,” this road would be a non-stop carnival of fun and charm. It’s not.

  Fairy Meadows itself is a gorgeous runoff about 3,300 meters above sea level, but to get there, you have to traverse a glorified one-way gravel path that was built hundreds of years ago and hasn’t been upgraded or repaired since. It has sharp turns, steep dives, no guardrails and cars come out of nowhere from the other direction. Even watching YouTube videos of someone driving on it is hair-raising.
  
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  (#10) Halsema Highway, the Philippines

  Feel like going to the Philippines and taking your life in your hands? Then check out Halsema Highway, a northern mountain road with insane drops and rises. While the road was recently modernized with recent inventions like guardrails, some of it is still unpaved asphalt, which gets virtually impassible when it rains, which it does, constantly.

  Some of it is still unguarded, and buses can topple right off into the abyss.
  
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  (#5) Zojila Pass, India

  If you want to pick a remote road to get killed on, this winding mountain pass has it all: high altitude, high winds, mud, heavy snowfall, narrow lanes, steep drops, and no guardrails. The roads leading to the Himalaya Mountains are among the highest and deadliest anywhere, and Zojila is probably the harshest.

  But in its favor, it’s the highest altitude at which tanks have operated in combat, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
  

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