Very nearly two thousand miles of packed earth and old stone, running from Storm's End to the Wall by way of King's Landing — the closest thing the Seven Kingdoms have to a spine, and about as easy to break.
South of the capital the Kingsroad runs down toward Storm's End; north of it, the road passes east of the God's Eye and by Harrenhal before an inn at the crossroads sends travelers on toward the Vale, the riverlands proper, or further north still. From there it threads the barrowlands and the wolfswood, crosses the one dry causeway through the Neck at Moat Cailin, and climbs at last to Winterfell before thinning to a lonelier track past Long Lake and Last Hearth on its way to the Wall.
It is the only road in the Seven Kingdoms a man could, in principle, walk from one end of the realm to the other without ever leaving it — assuming he survived the outlaws, the bogs, and whatever army happened to be marching the same stretch that season.
In the timeline
SourcesThe Lands of Ice and FireAGOT · Bran IACOK · Catelyn
Where is The Kingsroad?
Very nearly two thousand miles of packed earth and old stone, running from Storm's End to the Wall by way of King's Landing — the closest thing the Seven Kingdoms have to a spine, and about as easy to break.
Is The Kingsroad from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.