USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn National Forest South Fork and Paintrock Creek Divide
Wyoming's red wall country from basin floor to divide.
Difficulty: Difficult
Level 3
Montana
DifficultForest Road 26 to Lamar River Valley — Yellowstone’s Northeast Backdoor via Cooke City and Republic Pass
Yellowstone's wolf country from the hard side.
Colorado
DifficultNellie Creek Road to Slumgullion Pass — Hinsdale County High Country via Spring Creek Basin
San Juan shelf roads and a living landslide.
Colorado
DifficultLonesome Highway — Breaks of the Yampa River to Harpers Corner via Echo Park Road
Steamboat Rock and two rivers at the bottom.
USA
DifficultLockhart Basin Road — Canyonlands South Rim to Needles via Colorado River Benchlands
Colorado River shelf road with zero easy exits.
Arizona
DifficultSawmill Road to Superstition Mountains Backdoor — Tonto National Forest Four Peaks Wilderness via Fish Creek Hill
Fish Creek cliff drop — Sonoran Desert at its most vertical.
USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn National Forest North Fork and Porcupine Creek Divide
Basin to canyon — Bighorn backcountry at its loneliest.
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch to Beef Basin — Abajo Mountains Desert Rim via Dark Canyon Plateau
Anasazi ruins, zero crowds, real canyon country.
Colorado
DifficultNellie Creek Road to Engineer Mountain — Uncompahgre Wilderness Subalpine Approach via Henson Creek
Shelf road to the San Juan subalpine — no room for second thoughts.
USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Teton Pass Road to Victor via Coal Creek Summit Backdoor
The Tetons summit nobody's driving but you.