British Columbia
ModerateLiard Highway — Fort Nelson to Watson Lake via the Muskwa River and Coal River Hot Springs
Canada's loneliest wilderness highway.
Feature: Camping
Kenya
ModerateNairobi to Isiolo — Northern Kenya Transition Road via Nanyuki and the Laikipia Plateau
Where Kenya's tarmac ends and Africa begins.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Adcock Gorge to Barnett River Gorge via Kimberley Plateau Interior
Corrugations, gorges, and Kimberley grit.
Montana
ModerateBeartooth Highway — Red Lodge to Cooke City via the Montana–Wyoming High Plateau
11,000 ft of open tundra, switchbacks, and zero mercy.
Argentina
DifficultRuta del Libertador — San Juan to Uspallata via Barreal and the Calingasta Valley
Pre-Andean canyon country. Rivers, red rock, zero traffic.
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.
Kenya
ExpertTurkana Jade Sea Road — Loiyangalani to North Horr via the Chalbi Desert Fringe
Jade lake to salt flat — East Africa at its rawest.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Lennard River to Adcock Gorge via the Kimberley Ranges Spine
Bulldust, crossings, and gorge-country solitude.
Idaho
DifficultGrave Creek to Magruder Corridor — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Divide via Paradise Guard Station
100 miles of wilderness road. No way out but through.