Chad
ExtremePiste du Djourab — N’Djamena to Faya-Largeau via the Djourab Fossil Erg
A thousand clicks of Sahara and zero backup.
Feature: Historic
Idaho
DifficultGrave Creek to Magruder Corridor — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Divide via Paradise Guard Station
100 miles of wilderness road. No way out but through.
Gandaki Province
ExpertTatopani to Kagbeni — Mustang Salt Trail via Kali Gandaki Gorge
The world's deepest gorge on four wheels.
China
ExpertSichuan–Tibet Highway — Markam to Zuogong via Dongda La High Pass and Lancang River Canyon
Sea-level canyon to 5,000m pass in one gut-punch climb.
Australia
ExtremeCanning Stock Route — Well 36 to Well 51 via the Great Sandy Desert Northern Core
The CSR's loneliest stretch — no help, no signal, no mercy.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Barnett River Gorge to Pentecost River via Mount Barnett Station and Manning Gorge
Kimberley corrugations, crocs, and cold gorge water.
Namibia
DifficultTsaobis to Welwitschia Wash — Khomas Highland Desert Plateau via Farm Tracks and the Lower Swakop River Gorge
Ancient desert, zero guardrails, thousand-year plants.
India
ExtremeZanskar Valley Winter Road — Chadar Trek Support Track via Frozen Zanskar River
The frozen river is the road.
KwaZulu-Natal
ExpertDrakensberg Sani Pass — Himeville to Mokhotlong via the Escarpment Wall
Highest border crossing in Africa. Earn it.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Kununurra to El Questro via Pentecost River and Cockburn Range
Pentecost crossing first. That's the test.