Road trips are an increasingly popular way of discovering and experiencing new countries, and how good your trip looks ‘on the gram’ is very important in an age where everything has to be captured.
This led Click4reg.co.uk to consider what is the ‘most instagrammed’ road trip in the world.
This research was done by collecting 15 of the best-known roads and journeys around the world and then judging which is the most instagrammed by analysing the number of hashtags for each road trip with #name and #name + road trip.
Have you been on one of these trips?
Table of Results
Road Trip | Location | Tags |
Route 66 | USA | 1,708,620 |
Great Ocean Road | Australia | 1,291,178 |
Pacific Coast Highway | USA | 325,917 |
Valley of Fire | USA | 219,333 |
Ring Road | Iceland | 154,230 |
Ruta 40 | Argentina | 108,666 |
North Coast 500 | Scotland | 88,315 |
Trollstigen | Norway | 85,933 |
Cabot Trail | Canada | 76,840 |
Death Road | Bolivia | 44,587 |
Causeway Coastal Route | Northern Ireland | 35,423 |
Romantic Road | Germany | 28,369 |
Route 62 | South Africa | 28,234 |
Atlantic Road | Norway | 28,008 |
Snake Pass | England | 12,343
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This research was done by collecting 15 of the best-known roads and journeys around the world and then judging which is the most instagrammed by analysing the number of hashtags for each road trip with #name and #name + road trip.
Have you been on one of these trips?
Key Findings:
USA’s famous Route 66 was found to be the most instagrammed road trip with 1,708,620 hashtags, and it was closely followed by the Great Ocean Road in Australia which had 1,292,178 hashtags.
The top two were the only road trips to have over a million tags, Whilst Pacific Coast Highway placed third in the list with 325,917 tags.
Europe has been revealed as the continent with the most instagrammable road trips – it claims seven of the top 15 within the list.
England’s Snake Pass was the lowest tagged road trip with just 12,343 hashtags.