Abstract:With the rapid development of tourism, the advent of the era of self-driving tour and the vigorous implementation of the strategy of building a powerful transportation country the integration of transportation and tourism has become the trend of the times. The single traffic function of road can no longer meet the needs of tourism-oriented urban development. Thus, it is particularly important to create a comprehensive high-quality scenic road integrating the traffic, culture, landscape, ecology and recreation, and make it a linear tourism that is different from the traditional wall type scenic areas. Based on the example of Kaifeng Kailiu Road Widening and Reconstruction Project, the design essentials of scenic road are briefly analyzed, and the functional orientation, section scale, presentation form, and the short-term and long-term combination of key nodes are discussed in detail in order to provide design ideas of scenic road with the cultural tourism development as the main purpose.