USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn Mountains North Slope and Battle Park Road
The Bighorns' quiet north slope — all yours.
Difficulty: Moderate
Level 2
Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Challis via the White Cloud Peaks Backdoor and Patterson Creek
White Clouds without the permit lottery.
Arizona
ModeratePicketpost Mountain Road to Superior Backcountry — Tonto National Forest Desert Spine via Telegraph Canyon
Sonoran Desert canyon country, no crowds.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn Basin Rim and Red Gulch Road
Jurassic tracks and painted badlands, no guardrails.
California
ModerateMojave Road East — Government Holes to Piute Spring via Fort Piute Wash
Civil War ruins and desert petroglyphs.
USA
ModerateCentennial Road — Big Sandy Lodge Approach via New Fork Canyon
Wind River Range western gate. Ford required.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Elkhorn Mountains Crest to Marysville via Badger Pass and Scratchgravel Road
Ghost towns and ghost ridges above Helena.
USA
ModerateSawmill Road to Gros Ventre Slide — Kelly Warm Spring to Red Hills via Gros Ventre River Road
A landslide scar, red hills, and Teton solitude.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Garnet Ghost Town Road to Bearmouth via the Clark Fork River Bench
Montana's best ghost town, earned not given.
Colorado
ModerateOuray County Road 26 — Owl Creek Pass to Cimarron via the Uncompahgre Canyon Rim
Ute pass, volcanic ridge, zero crowds.