Distance
505.5 mi
Duration
7h 32m
Checkpoints
2
Created
JUL 5, 2026
About
Highway 85 features 510 miles (822 kilometers) of straightness, perfectly straight, with any corners being very long sweeping corners. It’s a straight road running right through the desert for 8 hours and 45 minutes.
The road
Highway 85 - The Longest Straight Road in the World in Arar, Northern Borders is graded at 85 corners, about 0.2 for every mile you drive. 12 of them are genuinely tight (14% of the road), and the sharpest turns in at a 23 m radius. The longest straight runs 78.9 miles, so there is room to breathe between the technical sections.
- Graded corners
- 85
- Tight (1–2)
- 12
- Tightest radius
- 23 m
- Corners per mile
- 0.2
Corners are graded from the route’s own geometry on the rally 1–6 scale, where 1 is a hairpin. Road & Rally calls them out as you drive.
Checkpoints
2
- #01
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- #02
Highway 85 - The Longest Straight Road in the World
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