The Ring Road is a two-lane, undivided highway with a maximum speed of 90 kilometers per hour, or about 56 m.p.h. Bridges are often one lane and offer limited visibility on the other side.

The Ring Road is Highway 1. It loops around the island past hayfields and mountains and fiords and waterfalls and black sand beaches and glaciers and more with Reykjavik at beginning and end.

Get off the plane, hop in your Iceland car rental, and pick a direction along the Ring Road. There are plenty of hotels and shops to see along the way, but here are a few natural wonders you’ll ...

Picture a remote landscape of ancient mountains, the strata layers of volcanic creation visible to the naked eye. These mountains are spread out like fingers of a hand, surrounded by water and ...

Photographer Ragnar Axelsson traveled the Iceland Ring Road just as the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the world to document a new level of desolation.

My husband and I drove the Ring Road, a 21-hour route that circles the island and serves as a grand tour of Iceland’s natural wonders. People have done it in five days, but we gave ourselves the ...