50 Best Country Songs About Scenery
Best Country Music for Scenic Drives and Views
There’s a strange kind of pause that happens when you’re staring at a horizon too wide to capture. It could be a stretch of desert, a patchwork of farmland rolling past, or a mountain line that looks unreal from the driver’s seat. Country songs hit differently in those spaces. The fiddles and steel guitar seem to swell with the landscape, like the sound is stitched into the sky. Some of these tracks aren’t literally tied to scenery at all, but they carry the same wide-open pull that makes the view feel bigger than it already is.
It’s not clean or picture-perfect either. A lot of times you’re sweaty from the road, car windows smudged, radio half-static, and the song comes in anyway like it belongs there. The great ones don’t try to dress up the moment, they sit in it, the way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs sometimes stumble into the same vibe without meaning to. Country music has a knack for leaning into the grit, letting the wind and dust in, letting the imperfections stay loud. That’s part of why these tracks stick when the view opens up.
The sound can shift from lonely to celebratory without warning, much like the way scenery changes when you round a bend or crest a hill. Some songs catch that sudden light when the sun drops, others feel closer to the weight of distance that still has miles to go. They’re messy in the best way, not polished postcards but lived-in soundtracks. With that in mind, here are the best country songs for scenery.
Top 10 Country Scenery Songs
1. 'Rocky Mountain High' by John Denver
2. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver
3. 'Wide Open Spaces' by The Chicks
4. 'Wagon Wheel' by Old Crow Medicine Show
5. 'Mountains' by Biffy Clyro
6. 'The Truth Comes Out' by Corb Lund
7. 'Fishin' in the Dark' by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
8. 'I've Been Everywhere' by Johnny Cash
9. 'Southbound' by Carrie Underwood
10. 'Somwhere on a Beach' by Dierks Bentley
Country Songs About Nature #11 to 20
11. 'Where The Green Grass Grows' by Tim McGraw
12. 'Chattahoochee' by Alan Jackson
13. 'The Seashores Of Old Mexico' by George Strait
14. 'Redneck Yacht Club' by Craig Morgan
15. 'River Bank' by Brad Paisley
16. 'On The Road Again' by Willie Nelson
17. 'Life Is a Highway' by Rascal Flatts
18. 'Call of the Wild' by Chris LeDoux
19. 'Heads Carolina, Tails California' by Jo Dee Messina
20. 'Wichita Lineman' by Glen Campbell
Country Songs About Landscapes #21 to 30
21. 'Cowboy Take Me Away' by The Chicks
22. 'Toes' by Zac Brown Band
23. 'No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems' by Kenny Chesney
24. 'Some Beach' by Blake Shelton
25. 'Margaritaville' by Jimmy Buffett
26. 'Knee Deep' by Zac Brown Band featuring Jimmy Buffett
27. 'Long Hot Summer' by Keith Urban
28. 'All Summer Long' by Kid Rock
29. 'When the Sun Goes Down' by Kenny Chesney
30. 'Carolina' by Eric Church
Country Songs About The Great Outdoors #31 to 40
31. 'The River' by Garth Brooks
32. 'Son of the Mountains' by Brad Paisley
33. 'Drover' by Bill Callahan
34. 'Little Foothills Heaven' by Corb Lund
35. 'Platte River Valley' by Sierra State Parks Foundation
36. 'Plain to See Plainsman' by Colter Wall
37. 'Rural Route' by Chris Knight
38. 'Georgia Piney Woods' by The Osborne Brothers
39. 'Paradise' by John Prine
40. 'Sand In My Boots' by Morgan Wallen
Country Songs About Scenery #41 to 50
41. 'Texas Sun' by Leon Bridges and Khruangbin
42. 'Pancho and Lefty' by Townes Van Zandt
43. 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' by Johnny Cash
44. 'El Paso' by Marty Robbins
45. 'Drive South' by Suzy Bogguss
46. 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller
47. 'Guitars and Tiki Bars' by Kenny Chesney
48. 'Almost Heaven' by John Denver
49. 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night' by Jake Owen
50. 'Pontoon' by Little Big Town
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