# Coastal road trips

> Drives along the sea: cliffs, beaches, lighthouses and harbour towns. – Road trip & camping planner for the USA, Europe and Australia.

Source: https://camping-spirit.com/themes/coast/

Drives along the sea: cliffs, beaches, lighthouses and harbour towns.

## USA

- [Oregon Coast on US-101](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/oregon-coast/): 5 d
- [Texas Gulf Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/texas-gulf/): 3 d
- [Lowcountry: Charleston to Savannah](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lowcountry/): 3 d
- [Outer Banks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/outer-banks/): 3 d
- [Florida Gulf Coast and the Everglades](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/florida-gulf/): 3 d
- [Highway 1: San Francisco to Santa Monica](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/highway-1/): 4 d
- [Florida’s Forgotten Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/forgotten-coast/): 3 d
- [Pacific Coast Highway south: Malibu to San Diego](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-socal-coast/): 4 d
- [Highway 1 south: San Francisco to Santa Cruz and Monterey](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-sf-santa-cruz/): 2 d
- [Sonoma and Mendocino coast on Highway 1](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-sonoma-mendocino/): 3 d
- [Oregon’s capes: Three Capes Route to Cape Perpetua](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-three-capes/): 3 d
- [Southern Oregon coast: Cape Arago to the Boardman corridor](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-south-oregon-coast/): 3 d
- [Maine’s Route 1](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/maine-route-1/): 4 d
- [Kenai Peninsula to Homer on the Sterling Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-kenai-homer/): 4 d
- [Oʻahu circle: Diamond Head to the North Shore](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-oahu-circle/): 2 d
- [Kohala and the Hāmākua Coast: Kona to Hilo the northern way](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b17-kohala-hamakua/): 3 d
- [Cape Cod](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cape-cod/): 3 d
- [Connecticut, Rhode Island and Montauk](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/new-england-shore/): 3 d
- [The Rio Grande Valley: South Padre Island and subtropical refuges](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-rio-grande-valley/): 4 d
- [Minnesota’s North Shore: waterfalls and cliffs to Grand Portage](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-north-shore-parks/): 3 d
- [Lake Michigan’s sunset coast: Saugatuck to Ludington](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-west-michigan-shore/): 4 d
- [Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula’s Lake Michigan shore](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-mackinac-island-up/): 3 d
- [Lake Erie’s islands and lighthouses](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-lake-erie-islands/): 3 d
- [Florida’s Space Coast: Kennedy Space Center to Daytona](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-space-coast/): 3 d
- [A1A from Jacksonville to Daytona: forts, lighthouses and coquina](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-a1a-first-coast/): 3 d
- [Central Florida springs: Wekiwa to the Ichetucknee](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-central-florida-springs/): 4 d
- [The Grand Strand and Georgetown to Charleston](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-grand-strand/): 3 d
- [East Coast curiosities](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/coastal-curiosities/): 4 d
- [Cape Fear coast: Wilmington, Fort Fisher and Southport](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-cape-fear-coast/): 3 d
- [Virginia’s Historic Triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-historic-triangle/): 3 d
- [Delaware: Bombay Hook, Dover and the Cape Henlopen beaches](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-delaware-bay-beaches/): 3 d
- [Lexington and Concord to Cape Ann and Newburyport](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-concord-cape-ann/): 3 d
- [Maine’s Midcoast peninsulas: Bath to Pemaquid and Owls Head](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-maine-midcoast/): 3 d
- [Acadia and Downeast Maine to West Quoddy Head](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b20-downeast-acadia/): 4 d
- [Fog, cliffs and elephant seals – the Pacific Coast Highway by camper](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/rf-001-pacific-coast-highway/): 5 d
- [Turquoise to the Horizon – Along the Overseas Highway to Key West](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/rf-005-florida-keys/): 4 d

## Europe

- [Sicily loop: temples, Etna and Baroque towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sicily-baroque/): 7 d
- [Riviera di Ponente: Genoa to the French border](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-riviera-ponente/): 4 d
- [Sardinia’s Orientale Sarda](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sardinia-east/): 5 d
- [Puglia: trulli, white towns and the heel of Italy](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/puglia-trulli/): 5 d
- [Po Delta: lagoons, abbeys and Ferrara](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-po-delta/): 3 d
- [Conero Riviera and the Frasassi caves](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-conero-frasassi/): 3 d
- [Cilento and Maratea: the quiet side of Campania](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cilento-coast/): 4 d
- [Trabocchi Coast to the Molise and Abruzzo mountains](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-trabocchi-molise/): 5 d
- [Gargano: forest, cliffs and sea stacks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-gargano/): 3 d
- [Calabria’s Coast of the Gods](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-costa-degli-dei/): 4 d
- [Western Sicily: Segesta, Erice and the salt pans](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sicily-west/): 5 d
- [Sardinia’s west coast: Alghero to Barumini](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sardinia-west/): 5 d
- [Gallura: granite coast of northern Sardinia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-gallura/): 4 d
- [Italian Riviera: Genoa to Lerici](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/riviera-levante/): 3 d
- [Normandy’s D-Day beaches](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-d-day-beaches/): 3 d
- [Finistère: the capes at the end of Brittany](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-finistere-capes/): 3 d
- [South Brittany: menhirs and the Gulf of Morbihan](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-morbihan-megaliths/): 3 d
- [Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast from Naples](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/amalfi/): 3 d
- [French Basque Country: coast and hill villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-basque-country/): 3 d
- [Corsica’s wild west coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/corsica-west/): 5 d
- [Southern Corsica: Bavella and the Alta Rocca](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-corsica-south/): 5 d
- [Costa de la Luz: Cádiz to Tarifa](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-costa-de-la-luz/): 3 d
- [Western Asturias: capes, fishing villages and the Cathedrals beach](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-asturias-west/): 3 d
- [Valencia to Cartagena: Costa Blanca and Murcia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-costa-blanca-murcia/): 5 d
- [Opal Coast: Calais to the Bay of Somme](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/opal-coast/): 2 d
- [Riviera d’Ulisse: Rome to Gaeta](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b11-riviera-ulisse/): 3 d
- [Serra da Arrábida and the Setúbal peninsula](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-arrabida/): 2 d
- [North Frisia: dikes, lighthouses and mudflats](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-north-frisian-coast/): 4 d
- [Salento: sea pools and cliffs between two seas](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b11-salento-two-seas/): 3 d
- [Val di Noto: Syracuse to Scicli](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b11-val-di-noto/): 3 d
- [South-west Sardinia: Costa del Sud, mines and the Piscinas dunes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b11-sardinia-southwest/): 4 d
- [Provence coast: Cassis cliffs to the red Esterel](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b12-var-coast/): 4 d
- [East Frisia’s Wadden coast: harbours and lighthouses](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-east-frisian-coast/): 4 d
- [Alabaster Coast: Dieppe to Le Havre](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b12-alabaster-coast/): 2 d
- [Cap Corse and the Balagne](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b12-cap-corse-balagne/): 3 d
- [Guérande salt marshes to the Passage du Gois](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b12-guerande-vendee/): 3 d

## Oceania

- [From the Bay of Islands to Cape Reinga and back](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-bay-of-islands-to-cape-reinga/): 3 d
- [Three days in the Bay of Islands: Waitangi to Kerikeri](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-bay-of-islands-loop/): 3 d
- [Auckland and the wild Waitākere west coast beaches](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-auckland-west-coast/): 2 d
- [Auckland to Whangārei by the north-east coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-auckland-north-coast/): 3 d
- [The Coromandel Peninsula loop from Thames to Waihī](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-coromandel-peninsula-loop/): 4 d
- [Two days along the Bay of Plenty from Waihī to Te Kaha](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-bay-of-plenty-coast/): 2 d
- [The East Cape road from Ōpōtiki to Gisborne](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzn-east-cape-road/): 4 d
- [Waitomo caves and the SH3 coast road to New Plymouth](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-waitomo-to-new-plymouth/): 3 d
- [Hawke's Bay: Napier, Hastings, wine and Cape Kidnappers](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-hawkes-bay-napier-hastings/): 3 d
- [Wellington to Wairarapa wine country and Cape Palliser](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzm-wairarapa-cape-palliser/): 3 d
- [From Picton Through the Marlborough Sounds to Nelson](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-sounds-picton-nelson/): 2 d
- [Along SH1 from Picton through Marlborough Wine Country to Kaikōura](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-marlborough-kaikoura-coast/): 2 d
- [From Nelson to Abel Tasman, Takaka and the Top of the South](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-abel-tasman-golden-bay/): 4 d
- [Punakaiki to Hokitika: Pancake Rocks, Lake Brunner and Gorge](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-punakaiki-hokitika/): 3 d
- [Christchurch and Banks Peninsula to Akaroa](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzw-banks-peninsula-akaroa/): 2 d
- [Oamaru to Dunedin along the North Otago coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-waitaki-moeraki-coast/): 2 d
- [Dunedin city and the wildlife of Otago Peninsula](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-dunedin-otago-peninsula/): 2 d
- [Bluff to Stewart Island / Rakiura and Ulva Island](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nzz-stewart-island-rakiura/): 3 d
- [Grand Pacific Drive: Sydney to Kiama](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-grand-pacific-drive/): 2 d
- [Hunter Valley to Port Macquarie](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-hunter-valley-to-port-macquarie/): 4 d
- [South Coast: Kiama to Narooma](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-south-coast-kiama-to-narooma/): 4 d
- [Great Ocean Road: Torquay to Warrnambool](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-great-ocean-road/): 3 d
- [Mornington Peninsula and Phillip Island](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-mornington-phillip-island/): 3 d
- [Wilsons Promontory and Gippsland](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-wilsons-prom-gippsland/): 4 d
- [Sunshine Coast, Hinterland and Noosa](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-sunshine-coast-noosa/): 3 d
- [K’gari and the Fraser Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-kgari-fraser-coast/): 5 d
- [Bundaberg to Mackay: Southern Reef and Capricorn Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-bundaberg-to-mackay/): 7 d
- [Whitsunday Coast to Townsville](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-whitsunday-coast-townsville/): 4 d
- [Cassowary Coast: Cairns to Townsville](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-cassowary-coast-cairns-townsville/): 4 d
- [Cairns to Cooktown via the Daintree](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-cairns-daintree-cooktown/): 4 d
- [McLaren Vale, Victor Harbor and Kangaroo Island](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-fleurieu-kangaroo-island/): 4 d
- [Limestone Coast: Coorong to Mount Gambier](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-limestone-coast-drive/): 4 d
- [Eyre Peninsula to the Nullarbor and Head of Bight](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-eyre-peninsula-nullarbor/): 6 d
- [Indian Ocean Drive: Perth to Kalbarri](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-wa-indian-ocean-drive/): 4 d
- [Margaret River and the Capes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-wa-margaret-river-capes/): 3 d
- [Kalbarri to Ningaloo: Shark Bay and the Coral Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/au-wa-shark-bay-ningaloo/): 7 d

## FAQs

**How many routes are in this list?**
298 routes: USA 74, Europe 179, Oceania 45.

**How is this list chosen?**
This list is put together automatically from our route data (season estimate, trip length, terrain, passes and size limits), currently 298 trip guides.