50 Best Country Songs About Traveling

Top Country Travel Songs to Play on the Road

There’s a strange rush that hits when you’re out on the highway with nothing ahead but miles and whatever snacks you grabbed at the last gas station. The windows are cracked, the air smells like dust and asphalt, and the right track suddenly makes the scenery feel bigger than it really is. Travel songs hit that place in your chest where freedom and restlessness clash, the same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can spill into the same playlist without warning. Not every track spells out a road trip in the lyrics, but something in the sound keeps you rolling forward anyway.

The charm of these songs is how they let the drive feel alive instead of staged. Some sound like wide skies and small towns fading in the rearview, others lean heavy into long nights when the tires hum louder than your thoughts. Country artists have a way of making the pavement feel personal, whether they’re singing about dirt roads, endless interstates, or the quiet in between destinations. Even tracks that never mention a car or highway still lock into the rhythm of travel when the beat feels like motion itself.

It’s not a playlist meant to stay neat or predictable. Some songs will make you grin at how wild the road feels, others land heavier, pulling up that ache that comes from leaving things behind. The best part is how they mix into the noise of the drive until you can’t tell where the music ends and the trip begins. Here are the best country travel songs to spin when the miles start stacking.

1. 'On the Road Again' by Willie Nelson

2. 'I've Been Everywhere' by Johnny Cash

3. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver

4. 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller

5. 'Life Is a Highway' by Rascal Flatts

6. 'Highwayman' by The Highwaymen

7. 'Amarillo by Morning' by George Strait

8. 'Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)' by Dierks Bentley

9. 'Dirt Road Anthem' by Jason Aldean

10. 'Wagon Wheel' by Old Crow Medicine Show

11. 'Traveler' by Chris Stapleton

12. 'Six Days on the Road' by Dave Dudley

13. 'Drive' by Alan Jackson

14. 'Red Dirt Road' by Brooks & Dunn

15. 'East Bound and Down' by Jerry Reed

16. 'The Road Goes On Forever' by Robert Earl Keen

17. 'Ramblin' Fever' by Merle Haggard

18. 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' by Lucinda Williams

19. 'Days Go By' by Keith Urban

20. 'Highway Vagabond' by Miranda Lambert

21. 'Drivin' My Life Away' by Eddie Rabbitt

22. 'Goin' Up the Country' by Henry Thomas

23. 'Born to Be Wild' by Steppenwolf

24. 'Midnight Train to Georgia' by Gladys Knight & The Pips

25. 'Gentle on My Mind' by Glen Campbell

26. 'I Can Still Make Cheyenne' by George Strait

27. 'Take a Back Road' by Rodney Atkins

28. 'Wichita Lineman' by Glen Campbell

29. 'Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)' by Alabama

30. 'The Passenger' by Iggy Pop

31. 'Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight' by The Oak Ridge Boys

32. 'Somewhere Over Laredo' by Lainey Wilson

33. 'Heads Carolina, Tails California' by Jo Dee Messina

34. 'Me and You and a Dog Named Boo' by Lobo

35. 'The Ride' by David Allan Coe

36. 'Lost Highway' by Hank Williams

37. 'Roll On Big Mama' by Joe Stampley

38. 'Highway Don't Care' by Tim McGraw featuring Taylor Swift

39. 'Truck Drivin' Man' by Buck Owens

40. 'White Line Fever' by Merle Haggard

41. 'Fast Car' by Tracy Chapman

42. 'The Road Less Traveled' by Lauren Alaina

43. 'Back Where I Come From' by Kenny Chesney

44. 'Wide Open Spaces' by The Chicks

45. 'The Long Way' by Brett Eldredge

46. 'Every Mile a Memory' by Dierks Bentley

47. 'Where the Blacktop Ends' by Keith Urban

48. 'Road Runner' by Lainey Wilson

49. 'Long White Line' by Sturgill Simpson

50. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man' by Waylon Jennings