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The Pico del Veleta road. This is a list of the highest paved roads in Europe.It includes roads that are at least 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) long and whose culminating point is at least 2,000 metres (6,562 feet) above sea level.
The highest paved road in Slovakia. 1853 m [8] Galdhøpiggvegen: Jotunheimen Norway: Dead end: Bøverdalen & Juvasshytta: Highest road in Norway as well as Northern Europe. The road is private but usable by the public and paved. The last 9 km are tolled.
The access road that takes one to approximately 10 metres below the summit is the highest paved road in Europe across the mountains from Granada to the western Alpujarras. This road was built before the creation of the Sierra Nevada National Park in 1999. [4] It has since been closed to general traffic beyond Hoya de la Mora, just above the ski ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
The two kilometre long teardrop shaped loop around the Cime de la Bonette peak (2,860 m (9,380 ft)) from either side of the pass is the highest paved through route in the Alps. [citation needed] The road around the Cime de la Bonette reaches an altitude of 2,802 m (9,193 ft), but this is not a "pass", but merely a scenic
One of the highest paved roads in Europe, located on the left side of the Val Tremola, it was constructed with the opening of the roadway of the Gotthard Pass. In its most important stretch, over a length of four kilometers it climbs a height of 300 meters in 24 hairpin bends.
The highest road in Ireland is probably at Sally's Gap in the Wicklow mountains, WP gives 503m for this and the OSI map has it close to the 500m contour. treesmill ( talk ) 18:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
Grossglockner High Alpine Road in autumn 1997 Hairpin turn near the summit. When, in 1924, a group of Austrian experts presented a plan for a road over the Hochtor (the high pass), they were ridiculed in a time when in Austria, Germany, and Italy there were only 154,000 private automobiles, 92,000 motorcycles, and 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of long-distance asphalt roads.