Colorado
DifficultOphir Pass Road — Ouray to Telluride via the San Juan High Crossing
13,114 feet of San Juan air and loose shelf road.
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Overlanding Trails in Colorado
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EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Range Rim to Island Park via Targhee National Forest Back Road
Kremmling to Steamboat the way Colorado intended.
Colorado
DifficultOphir Loop Road — San Juan Mountains Historic Mining Circuit via Ophir Pass and Silver Mountain
Shelf roads and silver ghosts above Telluride.
Colorado
DifficultNokhu Crags to Lake Agnes — Colorado State Forest Never Summer Backcountry Drive
Glacial lake, volcanic crags, real rocks.
Colorado
DifficultMedano Pass Primitive Road — Great Sand Dunes to Huerfano Valley via Sangre de Cristo Crossing
Sand, creek crossings, and a Sangre de Cristo summit.
Colorado
ExpertBlack Bear Pass Road — Silverton to Telluride via the San Juan High Loop
The switchbacks above Telluride eat rigs for breakfast.
Colorado
ModerateLime Creek Road — San Juan Mountains Descent from Coal Bank Pass to Durango
San Juan shelf road without the Alpine Loop crowds.
Colorado
EasyLonesome Highway — Pawnee National Grassland to Crow Butte via the South Platte High Plains Back Road
Big sky, no crowds, and Oligocene badlands on the plains.
Colorado
DifficultTincup Pass Road — St. Elmo to Tincup via the Sawatch-Elk Range Divide
Two ghost towns, one brutal alpine divide.
Colorado
ExpertCorkscrew Pass to Animas Forks — Silverton High Country Loop via Picayne Gulch
Ghost towns and 13k shelf roads above Silverton.