Australia
ModerateGibb River Road — Windjana Gorge to Lennard River Gorge via Napier Range Limestone Corridor
Devonian reef, boabs, and a crossing that bites.
Feature: Water Crossings
Namibia
DifficultSkeleton Coast Ugab River Mouth to Brandberg — Damaraland Volcanic Desert Track
Skeleton Coast fog to Africa's granite giant.
Afghanistan
ExtremeWakhan Corridor Road — Faizabad to Ishkashim via Kokcha River Valley
The last real Silk Road. No safety net.
Australia
ModerateFlinders Ranges Brachina Gorge Geological Trail — Wilpena Pound to Blinman via the Pound Wall and Brachina Creek
Drive through 600 million years in an afternoon.
British Columbia
ModerateLiard Highway — Fort Nelson to Watson Lake via the Muskwa River and Coal River Hot Springs
Canada's loneliest wilderness highway.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Adcock Gorge to Barnett River Gorge via Kimberley Plateau Interior
Corrugations, gorges, and Kimberley grit.
Argentina
DifficultRuta del Libertador — San Juan to Uspallata via Barreal and the Calingasta Valley
Pre-Andean canyon country. Rivers, red rock, zero traffic.
Australia
ModerateBirdsville Track — Marree to Birdsville via the Tirari and Strzelecki Desert Fringe
The original outback cattle road. Five hundred clicks of red nothing.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Lennard River to Adcock Gorge via the Kimberley Ranges Spine
Bulldust, crossings, and gorge-country solitude.
Idaho
DifficultGrave Creek to Magruder Corridor — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Divide via Paradise Guard Station
100 miles of wilderness road. No way out but through.