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Causeway Coastal Route

Drive · 87 miles · 3h 08m · 11 stops

Map of the Causeway Coastal Route route showing the full 87-mile drive route

Northern Ireland's great coast road: the Antrim glens, the cliff-hugging A2, Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge and the Giant's Causeway itself. One of the world's finest drives.

Regularly ranked among the world's great road trips, the A2 hugs the Antrim coast for mile after mile, with the nine Glens on one side and the sea on the other. Budget a full day: Carrick-a-Rede's rope bridge and the Giant's Causeway both deserve a proper stop, and Dunluce Castle appears just before Portrush.

The route, stop by stop

  1. Belfast
  2. Carrickfergus
  3. Larne
  4. Ballygalley
  5. Glenarm
  6. Carnlough
  7. Cushendall
  8. Ballycastle
  9. Carrick-a-Rede
  10. Giant's Causeway
  11. Portrush
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