Montana
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Dillon via the Big Hole Valley Back Road
Big sky, cold river, and a valley frozen in time.
Difficulty: Easy
Level 1
USA
EasySawmill Road to Mount St. Helens Windy Ridge — Gifford Pinchot Volcanic Blast Zone via FR 99
Drive into the blast zone. It still hasn't forgiven.
Alabama
EasyForest Road 376 to Dome Rock — Talladega National Forest Hillabee Divide via Hillabee Creek
Alabama's quiet granite ridge nobody drives.
Colorado
EasySawmill Road to Hazel Bazemore Peak — Comanche National Grassland Desert Rimrock via Carrizo Canyon
Forgotten canyon. Petroglyphs. Zero crowds.
California
EasyLonesome Highway — Modoc Plateau Rim Road to Lava Beds via Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge
California's empty quarter — lava, birds, and war history.
Colorado
EasyRimrock Drive — Colorado National Monument’s Canyon Rim Road via Cold Shivers Point
Canyon rim above the Grand Valley — sheer drops included.
Arizona
EasySitgreaves Pass Road — Oatman to Kingman via Black Mountains Historic Route 66 Spine
Route 66's meanest mountain crossing.
California
EasyCrowley Lake Road to Benton Crossing — Long Valley Caldera Desert Basin Traverse
Volcanic basin drive most Mammoth visitors never find.
Colorado
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Range Rim to Island Park via Targhee National Forest Back Road
Kremmling to Steamboat the way Colorado intended.
Colorado
EasyLonesome Highway — Pawnee National Grassland to Crow Butte via the South Platte High Plains Back Road
Big sky, no crowds, and Oligocene badlands on the plains.