Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Challis via the White Cloud Peaks Backdoor and Patterson Creek
White Clouds without the permit lottery.
Feature: High Altitude
USA
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn National Forest Medicine Wheel Road
Sacred stone wheel at 10,000 feet. Drive it slow.
California
DifficultEmigrant Pass Road — Death Valley’s Northern Backdoor via Bullfrog Hills
Death Valley's steep Panamint backdoor.
USA
ModerateCentennial Road — Big Sandy Lodge Approach via New Fork Canyon
Wind River Range western gate. Ford required.
Colorado
DifficultRollins Pass Road
Old railroad grade. New altitude problem.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Elkhorn Mountains Crest to Marysville via Badger Pass and Scratchgravel Road
Ghost towns and ghost ridges above Helena.
Colorado
ModerateOuray County Road 26 — Owl Creek Pass to Cimarron via the Uncompahgre Canyon Rim
Ute pass, volcanic ridge, zero crowds.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Mountains Divide to Elk Lake via Sheep Creek Basin
Grizzly country divide run above the Idaho line.
California
ModerateSawmill Road to Kern River Headwaters — Sequoia National Forest High Country Spine via Sherman Pass
Southern Sierra's forgotten high crossing.
USA
ModerateSawmill Road to Wilderness Peak — Gifford Pinchot High Country via Lewis River Divide
Three volcanoes in one ridgeline view — earned, not paved.