Free Road Pictures and Backgrounds: 69 Photos of Open Roads, Mountain Passes and Road Markings
69 free road pictures from the BigFoto library: empty roads through the dry hills of California, Highway 1 winding along the Pacific at Big Sur, roads across Cappadocia, Anatolia and the Golan Heights, the road down into Wadi Mujib in Jordan, Alpine pass roads between walls of snow, red dirt roads and a road train in the Australian outback, forest roads in autumn and winter, and close-ups of road markings, arrows and skid marks for backgrounds.
How to download: click a photo to see it large, then use Download. The originals are about 1200 × 800 pixels: right for blog posts, slides, social media, school projects and video call backgrounds.
Open roads and highways
Empty roads through the California hills and across a wide valley, a highway with farm silos, Highway 101, a country road through grassland, roads through the Golan Heights, Cappadocia, Anatolia and the red desert, a motorway through the countryside, a road through fields and a wheat field in Australia.
Coastal roads
Highway 1 along the Pacific, winding along the hills of Big Sur, in the fog and with a car and a camper, the Big Sur highway bridge and a road by the coast.
Mountain and winding roads
The winding road down into Wadi Mujib and the canyon on the King’s Highway in Jordan, a mountain road above a gorge, a mountain road in the fog, an Alpine road below snowy peaks, a car on a snowy pass, snow walls by a road and a winding road in the snow.
Outback and dirt roads
A gum tree by an outback road, a car on a gravel road, a flooded road, a red dirt road and a tree, a road train in Australia and a loaded minibus on a dirt road in Ghana.
Forest and country roads
A road between tall trees, forest roads in autumn and late autumn, fallen leaves on a forest road, a road with autumn trees, roads between vineyards and a country road in the fog.
Snowy roads
Snowy roads in a village, through trees, through a winter forest and a spruce forest, by a forest and a car on a snowy road through firs.
Road markings and textures
Skid marks, STOP painted on the road, white and yellow arrows, a cracked road, a chequered circle, a long evening shadow, a no-stopping marking and a petrol station marking.
Life on the road
A bighorn sheep and a bontebok on the road, a goat, the Tour de Suisse peloton on a country road, marathon runners on a long road and driving at dusk.
More free photos
- Free car pictures
- Free bicycle pictures
- Landscape pictures
- Free mountain pictures
- Free winter pictures
- Free concrete textures
Questions about these road photos
Can I use these road pictures for free?
Yes, for personal and commercial projects. All we ask is a link back to BigFoto.com; the box at the top of the page has a credit link you can copy.
Which photos work as a road background?
The empty roads through the hills, the outback and the snowy forest lead the eye into the picture and leave room for text; the road markings and the cracked road work as textures.
Where were the road photos taken?
In California, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, the Alps, the Australian outback and Ghana, and on country and forest roads in Europe.
