Colorado
ModerateColorado BDR North Segment — Steamboat Springs to Walden via Seedhouse Road and Parkview Mountain
North Park big sky via the Zirkel back door.
Difficulty: Moderate
Level 2
Australia
ModerateFlinders Ranges Brachina Gorge Geological Trail — Wilpena Pound to Blinman via the Pound Wall and Brachina Creek
Drive through 600 million years in an afternoon.
British Columbia
ModerateLiard Highway — Fort Nelson to Watson Lake via the Muskwa River and Coal River Hot Springs
Canada's loneliest wilderness highway.
Kenya
ModerateNairobi to Isiolo — Northern Kenya Transition Road via Nanyuki and the Laikipia Plateau
Where Kenya's tarmac ends and Africa begins.
Montana
ModerateBeartooth Highway — Red Lodge to Cooke City via the Montana–Wyoming High Plateau
11,000 ft of open tundra, switchbacks, and zero mercy.
Morocco
ModerateTizi n’Test Pass Road — Marrakech to Taroudant via the High Atlas Southern Spine
High Atlas death-drop road with an ancient mosque in the clouds.
Australia
ModerateBirdsville Track — Marree to Birdsville via the Tirari and Strzelecki Desert Fringe
The original outback cattle road. Five hundred clicks of red nothing.
Romania
ModerateTransfăgărășan Highway — Bâlea Lac to Sibiu via the Southern Carpathian High Crossing
Ceaușescu's mountain scar. Europe's wildest paved pass.
Canada
ModerateKluane–Haines Junction High Country Road — Dezadeash Lake to Kathleen Lake via the St. Elias Mountain Front
Biggest icefields in North America. Smallest crowds.
Alaska
ModerateChilkoot Pass Road — Skagway to the Yukon Interior via the White Pass Summit Approach
Dead horses, gold fever, and the longest switchback in history.