USA
ModeratePaiute Trail — Fish Lake Plateau to Beaver via Tushar Mountains High Route
Utah's high-plateau backbone route.
Feature: High Altitude
New Mexico
ModerateSawmill Road to Cloudcroft High Country — Lincoln National Forest Sacramento Mountains Crest
Pine forest and limestone crest above the desert.
California
EasyCrowley Lake Road to Benton Crossing — Long Valley Caldera Desert Basin Traverse
Volcanic basin drive most Mammoth visitors never find.
Colorado
ModerateConundrum Creek Road to Conundrum Hot Springs — Elk Mountains High Approach via Castle Creek
Aspen's back door to 14er country and hot springs.
New Mexico
ModerateSawmill Road to Baldy Mesa — Lincoln National Forest High Country Approach via Nogal Canyon
Desert to sky island in one canyon climb.
Texas
ModerateSawmill Road to Mount Locke — Davis Mountains High Desert Observatory Approach via Limpia Creek
Texas sky island — dark skies, thin air, wide open.
Colorado
DifficultOphir Pass Road — Ouray to Telluride via the San Juan High Crossing
13,114 feet of San Juan air and loose shelf road.
Idaho
ModerateGalena Summit Road to Stanley Basin — Sawtooth Valley High Approach via the Wood River Divide
The Sawtooth reveal that hits you like a wall.
Colorado
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Range Rim to Island Park via Targhee National Forest Back Road
Kremmling to Steamboat the way Colorado intended.
Montana
DifficultGlacier Lake Road to Beartooth Plateau — Clarks Fork Trailhead to Island Lake via Top of the World
High arctic tundra on the Beartooth — earned, not driven.