17 statescurrent coverage

Find the roadwhere you’re alone.


A free map that ranks American paved back roads by how few cars are on them.

“Me and the bike, like there’s no one else on earth.”

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Map of the 17 states across the West and Great Plains covered by Nobody’s RoadOutlines of the 17 states across the West and Great Plains in the dataset — Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming — with the mapped road network drawn as thin blue lines inside them, and the five featured back roads picked out in a heavier line.AZCACOIDKSMTNDNENMNVOKORSDTXUTWAWY
10,628 segments, 60,474 paved rural miles

The translation

Traffic engineers say

AADT 15

cars / day · NM-410

Nobody’s Road says

a car every
57 minutes

We take federal traffic counts and turn them into something you can feel.

Less math. More miles like this.

Proof is on the map

NM-410

New Mexico’s quietest

National Scenic Byway on the Santa Fe Trail · 1.9 mi

15cars / day

a car every ~57 minutes

UT-153

Over the Tushars

The quietest road in Utah · 5.4 mi

28cars / day

a car every ~31 minutes

UT-95

East from Hite Crossing

Canyon country between Hanksville and Blanding · 35 mi

186cars / day

a car every ~5 minutes

NV-375

“Extraterrestrial Hwy”

Basin and range, mile after mile · 10 mi

200cars / day

a car every ~4 minutes

UT-12

Off Boulder Mountain

The high-plateau descent into Wayne County · 10 mi

296cars / day

a car every ~3 minutes

All counts are Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) from FHWA HPMS.

“The road does not care that you came.”

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The rarest tier — under 85 cars/day

A car every 10+ minutes

Only 4,618 of the 60,474 miles mapped — 8% of the network, across all 17 states.

Fewer cars

More cars

The same four bands the map draws.

How it works

  • 01

    We use public federal traffic count data (FHWA HPMS).

  • 02

    Every road in that data, in the states we’ve mapped, is ranked by average annual daily traffic.

  • 03

    Counts are translated to “a car every X minutes.”

  • 04

    Explore the map. It’s free. No account.

Nobody’s Road

Quiet paved roads across 17 states

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