Miles of Melodies: Curating Your Epic Road Trip Playlist

Are you gearing up for your next family road trip? Whether you’re embarking on a cross-country odyssey or simply hitting the scenic route for a weekend getaway, there’s one essential item you don’t want to leave behind: the ultimate family road trip playlist.

In this post, we’re diving into the art of crafting the perfect road trip playlist – a carefully curated collection of songs that will keep you energized, entertained, and fully immersed in the joy of travel. Buckle up, turn up the volume, and let’s explore how to create the ultimate musical companion for your next adventure on wheels. 🎶🚗✨

1. Life is a Highway – Tom Cochrane
2. On the Road Again – Willie Nelson
3. Road Trippin’ – Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Hit the Road Jack – Ray Charles
5. Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf
6. Take It Easy – Eagles
7. Route 66 – Chuck Berry
8. I Drove All Night – Cyndi Lauper
9. Ramble On – Led Zeppelin
10. Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
11. Wagon Wheel – Old Crow Medicine Show
12. Runnin’ Down a Dream – Tom Petty
13. King of the Road – Roger Miller
14. Drive – Incubus
15. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers
16. Roadhouse Blues – The Doors
17. The Distance – Cake
18. Life in the Fast Lane – Eagles
19. Highway to Hell – AC/DC
20. Holiday Road – Lindsey Buckingham
21. Drivin’ My Life Away – Eddie Rabbitt
22. Road Trippin’ – Dan + Shay
23. Drive My Car – The Beatles
24. Truckin’ – Grateful Dead
25. Country Roads – John Denver
26. Riding with the King – B.B. King & Eric Clapton
27. Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
28. Hit the Open Road – Keith Urban
29. Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
30. Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) – Alabama
31. Highwayman – The Highwaymen
32. Gypsy Road – Cinderella
33. Ramble Tamble – Creedence Clearwater Revival
34. I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash
35. Drive South – John Hiatt
36. Ride Like the Wind – Christopher Cross
37. Road Trippin’ Summer – LANY
38. Cruise – Florida Georgia Line
39. Every Mile a Memory – Dierks Bentley
40. Take the Long Way Home – Supertramp
41. Fast Car – Jonas Blue ft. Dakota
42. Graceland – Paul Simon
43. Roam – The B-52’s
44. Drive – Halsey
45. Road to Nowhere – Talking Heads
46. Down the Road Tonight – Bruce Hornsby & The Range
47. Roads – Portishead
48. Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car – Billy Ocean
49. Hit the Road Jack – Big Youth
50. Roadrunner – The Modern Lovers
51. King of the Road – Randy Travis
52. Long May You Run – Neil Young
53. We Danced Anyway – Deana Carter
54. Sleeping on the Blacktop – by Colter Wall
55. Drive – R.E.M.
56. Open Road – Roo Panes
57. Long Way Down – Robert DeLong
58. Drive Away – Grayscale
59. Holiday – Green Day
60. Highway Tune – Greta Van Fleet
61. Road Trip – Dream, PmBata
62. The Long Run – Eagles
63. Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
64. Fast Car – Tracy Chapman (Jonas Blue Remix)
65. Running on Sunshine – Jesus Jackson
66. Send Me on My Way – Rusted Root
67. Wheels – Foo Fighters
68. Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car – Billy Ocean
69. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake
70. Midnight Rider – The Allman Brothers Band
71. Two Tickets to Paradise – Eddie Money
72. Ramblin’ Man – The Allman Brothers Band
73. Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
74. Ready to Run – Dixie Chicks
75. Dixieland Delight – Alabama
76. Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise – The Avett Brothers
77. Panama – Van Halen
78. The Boys of Summer – Don Henley
79. Drive-Incubus – Miles Away
80. Holiday – Green Day
81. Long May You Run – Neil Young
82. The Road and the Radio – Kenny Chesney
83. Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
84. Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
85. Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
86. Drive – The Cars
87. Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
88. Cruise – Florida Georgia Line
89. Jack & Diane – John Mellencamp
90. Take It Easy – Eagles
91. Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
92. Road to Nowhere – Talking Heads
93. Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf
94. Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
95. Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
96. No Particular Place to Go – Chuck Berry
97. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
98. Boys of Summer – Don Henley
99. Ventura Highway – America
100. Riders on the Storm – The Doors

Satisfying your tweens and teens Muscial Taste

OK, I will not lie; once I’ve pelted out a few rounds of Life is a Highway, even my youngest tween is at eye-roll status with me. We do like to make sure we keep some current hits in the road trip playlist rotation.

So, under consultation, here’s what I’m informed we need to add for Summer 2024

1. Levitating – Dua Lipa
2. Let Me Down Easy – Sheppard
3. Shotgun – George Ezra
4. Tightrope (Acoustic) – Walk the Moon
5. High Hopes – Panic! At the Disco
6. Believer – Imagine Dragons
7. Good as Hell – Lizzo
8. Glorious – Macklemore with Skylar Grey
9. Tear in My Heart – Twenty One Pilots
10. Happier – Marshmello with Bastille
11. Dynamite – BTS
12. Airplanes – B.o.B with Hayley Williams
13. Pompeii – Bastille
14. Counting Stars – One Republic
15. Miss You All the Time – OAR
16. Good Time – Owl City with Carly Rae Jepson
17. Treasure – Bruno Mars
18. Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye
19. Can’t Hold Us – Macklemore with Ryan Lewis
20. Glad You Came – The Wanted
21. Stereo Hearts – Gym Class Heroes with Adam Levine
22. Don’t Start Now – Dua Lipa
23. Hall of Fame – The Script
24. Save Me San Francisco – Train
25. The Nights – Avicii
26. Natural – Imagine Dragons
27. Burn the House Down – AJR
28. Dynamite – Taio Cruz
29. Circles – Post Malone
30. Exitlude – The Killers

Are there any other road trip classic you think we’re missing? We’d love to hear what songs have a permanent spot on your family road trip play list!

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