USA
DifficultCottonwood Road to Hite Crossing — Glen Canyon Desert Bench via Dirty Devil River Canyon
Where the reservoir retreats and the desert remembers.
Feature: Historic
Arizona
ModeratePicketpost Mountain Road to Hewitt Station
Ghost ranch country baking in the Arizona desert.
Colorado
ModerateRimrocker Trail
Moab to Montrose — real cross-country overlanding.
Arizona
EasyGunsight Butte Road to Lee’s Ferry — Marble Canyon Rim to Colorado River via House Rock Valley
The only road to the top of the Grand Canyon's river.
USA
ModerateCoyote Gulch to Hole-in-the-Rock — Grand Staircase Desert Bench via Dance Hall Rock
Where pioneers blasted a road through solid rock.
Idaho
ModerateYankee Fork Gold Dredge Road — Custer to Jordan Creek via Salmon River Mountains
Ghost dredge, shale shelves, and Idaho high country.
California
ModerateGold Bug Road to Hungry Valley — Los Padres Backcountry Desert Bench via Lockwood Valley
From high desert pine to canyon floor — the hard way.
California
ModerateTrans-Catalina Trail Road — Big Bear Lake to Baldwin Lake via Gold Mountain
Mining ridgeline above Big Bear nobody talks about.
Colorado
DifficultOphir Pass Road — Ouray to Silverton via the San Juan High Crossing
Talus, tundra, and a 11,789-ft San Juan crossing.
New Mexico
ModerateLonesome Highway — Breaks of the Rio Puerco to Sky Village via Cabezon Peak Road
A volcanic badlands run to New Mexico's broken tooth.