Alaska
ModerateDalton Highway — Fairbanks to Deadhorse via the Brooks Range and Atigun Pass (South Segment)
Alaska's pipeline road into the Brooks Range.
Feature: Camping
Tanzania
ExtremeMoyowosi–Kigosi Game Reserve Track — Tabora to Uvinza via the Western Tanzania Miombo Wilderness
Western Tanzania's loneliest road through lion country.
France
ModerateRallye des Cimes — Col de la Cayolle to Col de Vars via the Ubaye Alpine High Loop
Two high cols, one valley, zero guardrails.
USA
DifficultMojave Road — Afton Canyon to Piute Spring via Soda Lake and Government Holes (West-to-East Full Run)
Absarokas, grizzlies, and Togwotee in your mirror.
Morocco
ModeratePiste de Tafraout — Agadir to Tafraout via the Anti-Atlas Granite Valleys and Painted Rocks
Pink granite, painted boulders, Berber highlands.
Alaska
ModeratePiste de l’Erg Murzuq — Ubari to Germa via the Fezzan Oasis Lakes and Sand Sea
Alaska's forgotten highway. The real one.
North Carolina
DifficultTrans-America Trail — Waterville to Robbinsville via the Great Smoky Mountains Backdoor and Nantahala Gorge
The TAT bites hardest in the Carolina wet forest.
Morocco
ModeratePiste de l’Erg Chebbi Nord — Erfoud to Merzouga via the Northern Saharan Dune Approach and Ziz Valley
The real dune approach. No tarmac, no tourists.
Argentina
DifficultPaso Vergara to Futaleufú — Carretera Austral Frontier Crossing via the Palena River Valley
Patagonia's back roads bite — bring recovery gear.
Algeria
ExtremePiste de Tadrart Rouge — Djanet to Tin Merzouga via the Tassili Plateau Red Sandstone Canyon Circuit
Red sandstone, zero margin, pure Sahara.