The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads stretching across the Americas, measuring about 30,000 kilometres … See more

The highway was built in stages. The first, not long after one could drive across the United States on a paved road, was the highway from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City. The second stage was the Inter-American Highway to … See more

The concept of an overland route from one tip of the Americas to the other was originally proposed as a railroad. In 1884 the U.S. Congress passed a law with a plan to build an inter-American rail system. This was discus… See more

The Northern Pan-American Highway travels through nine countries, including in Central America:
• Canada (CANAMEX Corridor unofficial)
• United States (Interstate Highway System official)… See more

The Alaska Highway through Alaska, Yukon and British Columbia is commonly considered a de facto northerly extension of the Pan-American Highway, which continues further north with the Dalton Highway in … See more

The Pan-American Highway is interrupted between Panama and Colombia by a 106 km (66 mi) stretch of marshland known as the Darién Gap. The highway terminates at Turbo, Colombia, and Yaviza, Panama. Because o… See more