Colorado
EasyRimrock Drive — Colorado National Monument’s Canyon Rim Road via Cold Shivers Point
Canyon rim above the Grand Valley — sheer drops included.
Difficulty: Easy
Level 1
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.
USA
EasyLander Road to South Pass — Wyoming’s Oregon Trail High Desert Crossing via Atlantic City
Oregon Trail ruts, ghost town gold, and the Divide.
Idaho
EasyFortymile Salmon River Canyon Road — Clayton to Salmon via the Pahsimeroi Valley Back Road
Two mountain ranges, one forgotten valley, zero crowds.
USA
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Egg Mountains Road to Dubois via Wind River Badlands Backdoor
Wyoming's Bear Lodge — better than the Tower crowds.
Colorado
EasyLonesome Highway — Pawnee Buttes Road to Pawnee National Grassland via Crow Valley
Prairie spires, pronghorn, and no cell bars.
USA
EasyLonesome Highway — Muddy Gap to Split Rock via the Sweetwater River Emigrant Road
Oregon Trail ruts, Devil's Gate, Split Rock. The real thing.