New Mexico
ModerateNacimiento Badlands Road — Fort Stanton to Capitan via the Sierra Blanca Desert Bench
Adobe ruins and Sierra Blanca across open NM bench.
Feature: Scenic
Colorado
ExpertCorkscrew Pass to Animas Forks — Silverton High Country Loop via Picayne Gulch
Ghost towns and 13k shelf roads above Silverton.
Idaho
EasyFortymile Salmon River Canyon Road — Clayton to Salmon via the Pahsimeroi Valley Back Road
Two mountain ranges, one forgotten valley, zero crowds.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Bighorn Mountains Powder River Country to Ten Sleep via the West Slope Bench
Wyoming's forgotten west slope, limestone and sage.
Arizona
ModerateCoyote Ridge to Petrified Forest Backcountry — Painted Desert Rim Road via Blue Mesa
Ancient logs and alien badlands, no pavement.
USA
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Egg Mountains Road to Dubois via Wind River Badlands Backdoor
Wyoming's Bear Lodge — better than the Tower crowds.
USA
ModerateNaches Pass Road — Cascades Historic Wagon Road from Greenwater to Selah Creek via Naches River Divide
Wagon ruts to summit mud — the Cascades' oldest crossing.
Arizona
ModerateDipping Vat Road to Hannagan Meadow — Blue Range Primitive Area High Road via Centerfire Creek
Into Arizona's only undesignated roadless wild.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Egg Mountains Road to Dubois via the Wind River Badlands (Wyoming)
Dinosaur badlands above the Wind River breaks.
New Mexico
ModerateOwl Bar Road to Tres Piedras — Rio Grande del Norte Rim Desert Traverse via Ute Mountain (New Mexico)
Volcanic rim above the Rio Grande gorge.