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DifficultMendocino County’s Bloody Rock Road — Elk Mountain to High Valley via Snow Mountain Wilderness Edge
Coast Range backcountry with a name that fits.
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Overlanding Trails in California
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ModerateYankee Jim Canyon Road — Yellowstone River Gorge to Carbella via Paradise Valley
Placeholder — do not use.
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DifficultChimney Rock to Junction City — Trinity Alps Backcountry High Road
Granite ridgelines, ghost mines, zero crowds.
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ModerateOnyx Peak to Big Bear — San Bernardino Mountains Crest Road
9,000 feet and two seas in one view.
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ModerateFlume Trail — Lake Tahoe East Shore Historic Water Route
Tahoe from above, the way the miners saw it.
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DifficultPismo Dunes to Oceano — Nipomo Mesa Coastal Sand Run
California's last driveable Pacific beach.
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ExpertBighorn Basin Road — Death Valley to Eureka Valley via Hanging Rock Canyon
Death Valley's punishing northern secret.
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DifficultJawbone to Lake Isabella — Jawbone Canyon OHV Connector
Desert wash to Sierra foothills — earn every mile.
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ExpertDusy-Ershim Off-Highway Vehicle Route — Kings Canyon to Owens Valley Divide
Sierra's most brutal legal rock crawl, period.
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DifficultPuite Canyon Road — White Mountains to Volcanic Tablelands via Chalfant Valley
Eastern Sierra slot canyon meets volcanic moonscape.