50 Best Country Songs About Road Trips
Best Country Road Trip Songs to Play on Long Drives
There’s a certain mood that kicks in when the highway stretches out ahead of you and the gas station coffee is still hot in the cup holder. It’s not pure freedom, not exactly escape, but something tangled in the middle. You roll down the window, let the wind shove the music around, and suddenly the right track feels heavier than the scenery itself. These songs know that headspace. The thrill, the drag, the possibility of nowhere specific, stitched together into a soundtrack that rattles with every mile marker.
Road trips rarely unfold like they do in glossy travel ads. They drag, they spin out, they stumble into gas stops that smell like diesel and fried food. And somewhere in that haze, the right song hits in a way nothing else can. A track by Willie or Kacey can sound like the map itself is humming along. A cut from newer voices sits side by side with pop, rock, country, and R&B songs you thought you left behind in another playlist. Not every one of these picks tells a literal story of highways or wheels, but they all pull the same thread of movement.
Some drives feel endless, some burn out too fast, and some only make sense when you look back later. That weird energy needs songs that lean into it, songs that don’t try to smooth it out. These are the country road trip tracks that carry that restless spirit loud enough to keep the miles from going flat. Here are the best ones to cue up next time the tires hit the pavement.
Top 10 Country Road Songs
1. 'Life Is a Highway' by Rascal Flatts
2. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver
3. 'On the Road Again' by Willie Nelson
4. 'Wagon Wheel' by Darius Rucker
5. 'I've Been Everywhere' by Johnny Cash
6. 'East Bound and Down' by Jerry Reed
7. 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller
8. 'Cruise' by Florida Georgia Line
9. 'Fast Car' by Luke Combs
10. 'Dirt Road Anthem' by Jason Aldean
Popular Country Songs to Play on a Road Trip #11 to 20
11. 'Drivin' My Life Away' by Eddie Rabbitt
12. 'Amarillo by Morning' by George Strait
13. 'Drive South' by Suzy Bogguss
14. 'Red Dirt Road' by Brooks & Dunn
15. 'Highway 20 Ride' by Zac Brown Band
16. 'Wide Open Spaces' by The Chicks
17. 'Mud on the Tires' by Brad Paisley
18. 'Roll On' by Alabama
19. 'Days Go By' by Keith Urban
20. 'Gentle On My Mind' by Glen Campbell
Country Songs About Cars and Freedom #21 to 30
21. 'God's Country' by Blake Shelton
22. 'Take a Back Road' by Rodney Atkins
23. 'Somewhere In My Car' by Keith Urban
24. 'My Church' by Maren Morris
25. 'Get Out of This Town' by Carrie Underwood
26. 'Six Days on the Road' by Sawyer Brown
27. 'The Ride' by David Allan Coe
28. 'Looking At the World Through a Windshield' by Son Volt
29. 'Chattahoochee' by Alan Jackson
30. 'Head Over Boots' by Jon Pardi
Country Songs About The Open Road #31 to 40
31. 'Traveller' by Chris Stapleton
32. 'Roll On' by Alabama
33. 'I Got a Car' by George Strait
34. '80s Mercedes' by Maren Morris
35. 'Cruise' by Florida Georgia Line
36. 'Jackson' by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
37. 'A Place in This World' by Taylor Swift
38. 'Highway Don't Care' by Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban
39. 'The Road Goes on Forever' by Robert Earl Keen
40. 'Drive (For Daddy Gene)' by Alan Jackson
Country Songs for a Long Drive #41 to 50
41. 'Long Haul' by Shane McAnally
42. 'The Road and the Radio' by Kenny Chesney
43. 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' by Lucinda Williams
44. 'The Long Way' by Brett Eldredge
45. 'Headlights' by Montgomery Gentry
46. 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night' by Jake Owen
47. 'Guitars, Cadillacs' by Dwight Yoakam
48. 'Somewhere on a Beach' by Dierks Bentley
49. 'Leaving Cheyenne' by Kacey Musgraves
50. 'Hippies and Cowboys' by Cody Jinks
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