Gozo measures just 67 square kilometres, yet it holds more than 130 kilometres of surfaced and unsurfaced road — enough that a full-day circuit still leaves corners unseen. The island's road network grew from cart tracks worn into globigerina limestone, the soft yellow stone that also built its churches and farmhouses. Those tracks linked fourteen villages, each clustered around a parish church, each historically self-sufficient in grain, olives and salt. The Knights of St John fortified the Cittadella above Victoria in the early seventeenth century, and until 1637 every islander was required by law to spend the night inside its walls. That defensive geography still shapes the map: settlements sit inland and high, while the coast was left to salt pans, watchtowers and fishing inlets such as Xlendi and Mġarr ix-Xini. A modern gozo atv tour traces almost exactly this inherited grid, running the ridge roads between villages and dropping to the shoreline where the old paths did. Why the island suits small open vehicles is a matter of scale and surface. Distances are short — Mġarr to Dwejra is under 12 kilometres — but the terrain rises and falls sharply, from sea level to the 194-metre high point at Ta' Dbieġi. Country lanes narrow to a single vehicle between rubble walls. Quad bikes and six-seater UTVs pass where coaches cannot, which is why Gozo quad bike tours have become the standard way to cover the west of the island in a single day. The landmarks reward the effort. Dwejra's Inland Sea remains connected to the open Mediterranean by a 60-metre natural tunnel through the cliff, though the Azure Window collapsed in a storm in March 2017. Ġgantija in Xagħra predates Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, its megaliths raised around 3600 BC and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The salt pans at Xwejni have been cut into the coastal rock for roughly 350 years and are still worked by hand each summer. Ramla l-Ħamra shows red sand unusual in the Maltese islands, the result of iron-rich clay eroding from the valley above. Access to all of this begins at Mgarr Harbour, Gozo, Malta, the island's only passenger port, where the ferry channel from Ċirkewwa is 6 kilometres wide. Entry to the island and its public sites carries no gate charge — 0 EUR, with tour services charged per package — so the cost of a gozo atv tour sits entirely in the ride itself, whether a quad, a UTV, or a self-guided rental with a GPS island map.