This paper examines the most probable route to chaos in high-dimensional dynamical systems in a very general computational setting. The most probable route to chaos in high-dimensional, discrete-time maps is observed to be a sequence of Neimark-Sacker bifurcations into chaos. A means for determining and understanding the degree to which the Landau-Hopf route to turbulence is non-generic in the space of C r mappings is outlined. The results comment on previous results of Newhouse, Ruelle, Takens, Broer, Chenciner, and Iooss. In their first edition of Fluid Mechanics [26], Landau and Lifschitz proposed a route to turbulence in fluid systems. Since then, much work, in dynamical systems, experimental fluid dynamics, and many other fields has been done concerning the routes to turbulence. In this paper, we present early results from the first large statistical study of the route to chaos in a very general class of high-dimensional, C r , dynamical systems. Our results contain both some reassurances based on a wealth of previous results and some surprises. We conclude that, for high-dimensional discrete-time maps, the most probable route to chaos (in our general construction) from a fixed point is via at least one Neimark-Sacker bifurcation, followed by persistent zero Lyapunov exponents, and finally a bifurcation into chaos. We observe both the Ruelle-Takens