California
ModerateReyes Peak Road — Pine Mountain Club to Haddock Peak via Piedra Blanca Divide
SoCal's forgotten ridge road above the Cuyama.
Feature: Camping
Texas
ModerateByway to Nowhere — Breaks of the Plains via Caprock Canyons State Park Back Road
Red rock canyons on the forgotten Texas escarpment.
USA
ModerateSan Rafael Swell Wedge Overlook and Mexican Mountain Road — Castle Valley to Sinbad Country Circuit
Utah's forgotten canyon country, wide open.
USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Escalante River Bench to Boulder Mountain via Hell’s Backbone Divide
Canyon bench driving above ancient Utah.
USA
DifficultGypsum Canyon Road — Canyonlands Dark Canyon Plateau to Needles Overlook via Beef Basin Connector
Beef Basin ruins and a canyon drop you won't forget.
Idaho
DifficultGrave Peak Lookout Road — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Edge via Elk Summit
Idaho's loneliest fire lookout road.
Idaho
DifficultCuster Motorway Adventure Road — Challis to Patterson via the Salmon River Mountains Spine
CCC shelf road above the Salmon — narrow, raw, real.
Arizona
EasyDome Rock to Quartzsite — Kofa Mountain Bajada Desert Traverse via Palm Canyon Road
Kofa's palm canyon buried in Arizona's hardest desert.
Nevada
ModerateToiyabe Crest National Recreation Trail Road — Big Smoky Valley to Arc Dome via Kingston Canyon
Nevada's loneliest ridgeline, sky-high and wide open.
Arizona
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Wash to Harquahala Mountain via Hassayampa River Plain
Sonoran Desert sky island — no crowd, no mercy.