Idaho
DifficultCuster Motorway Adventure Road — Challis to Patterson via the Salmon River Mountains Spine
CCC shelf road above the Salmon — narrow, raw, real.
Difficulty: Difficult
Level 3
Arizona
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Wash to Harquahala Mountain via Hassayampa River Plain
Sonoran Desert sky island — no crowd, no mercy.
USA
DifficultGlacier Ridge Trail — Bighorn National Forest High Road via Tensleep Canyon Rim
Bighorn ridgeline above the cloud line.
Nevada
DifficultTobin Range Road — Battle Mountain to Unionville via the Humboldt Basin Desert Spine
Twain country, sagebrush, and total silence.
Texas
DifficultBig Bend River Road West — Presidio to Santa Elena Canyon via Rancherias Loop
Rio Grande borderland. No pavement, no crowds.
USA
DifficultKellner Canyon to Tensleep Canyon — Bighorn Mountains East Face Desert Road
Bighorn's eastern face, raw and unforgiving.
Montana
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Mountains Divide Road to Lima via Red Rock River Valley
The divide road nobody talks about — for good reason.
Australia
DifficultAlma Road to Lake Malbena — Central Highlands Wilderness Fly Camp Approach via Walls of Jerusalem Fringe
The forgotten wheel road to Tasmania's wild centre.
Australia
DifficultMurchison Highway to Mount Murchison — Tullah to Mount Murchison Ridgeline via Pieman Headwaters
Northwest mining country meets alpine wilderness.
Australia
DifficultLake Gairdner Road — Upper Derwent Valley to Florentine Plateau via Westerway Forestry Spine
Button grass and bog above the Derwent.