Montana
DifficultLonesome Highway — Beartooth Plateau Divide to Cooke City via Daisy Pass Road
Above the Beartooth. Below the radar.
Feature: Remote
USA
ModerateCoyote Gulch to Red Breaks — Hole-in-the-Rock Road Desert Slickrock Run
Mormon wagons went here. Your rig can too.
New Mexico
DifficultLonesome Highway — Gila River Canyon Road to Redrock via Box Canyon
Six river crossings, zero crowds, pure Gila.
Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Camas Creek Road to Craters of the Moon via the Great Rift Zone
Lava, silence, and the edge of the world.
USA
ModerateExplore Sunstone Knoll to Wah Wah Mountains — Escalante Desert Volcanic Field Road
Gem fields and volcanic desert, zero crowds.
Colorado
ModerateSlumgullion to Cebolla Mesa — Lake City Backcountry High Desert Bench
Gunnison country bench. Crowds don't find this one.
Arizona
ModerateGold Road to Oatman — Black Mountains Desert Pass via Sitgreaves Summit
Route 66's roughest mile. Burros included.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Big Belt Mountains Divide to Canyon Ferry via Magpie Gulch
Big Belts divide. Nobody else up here.
USA
DifficultBirch Creek to Heart Mountain — Shoshone National Forest Absaroka Front Road via Dead Indian Hill
Absaroka front, geological freakshow, zero crowd.
USA
DifficultRed Canyon to Cassidy Arch — Capitol Reef Backcountry South Desert Circuit via Swap Mesa
Butch Cassidy country, Chinle clay, zero mercy.