South Dakota
ModerateMojave Road — Afton Canyon to Needles via Government Holes and Lanfair Valley (Night Sky Variant)
Grassland benches and a volcanic plug at trail's end.
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North Carolina
DifficultTrans-America Trail — Tellico Plains to Robbinsville via the Cherohala Skyway Backdoor
Appalachian ridge country the pavement tourists never find.
Nevada
ModerateLonesome Highway — Black Rock Desert Playa to Soldier Meadows via High Rock Canyon Rim
Playa to canyon. Flat to vertical. Nevada at its loneliest.
California
ModerateMojave Road Central — Afton Canyon to Piute Spring via Mid Hills and Hole-in-the-Wall
Mojave's volcanic heart — canyon to cliff face.
USA
ModerateGunsight Pass Road — Wind River Range Wilderness Backdoor via Big Sandy Desert and Lander Cutoff
Oregon Trail grit meets Wind River granite.
California
ModerateCrowley Lake to Benton Crossing — Owens Valley Volcanic Tableland Desert Loop via Long Valley Caldera
Hot springs and obsidian in the volcanic east Sierra.
South Dakota
ModerateRowdy Ridge to Thunder Basin — Black Hills Backcountry High Divide
Shale ridges, ponderosa, and fifty miles of nothing.
Colorado
DifficultSlumgullion Pass to Lake City — Hinsdale County Alpine Loop Connector via Spring Creek
San Juan high country above 11,000 feet.
Alaska
ModerateTop of the World Highway — Chicken to Boundary via the Taylor Highway
Above treeline, end of the road, Alaska.
California
DifficultMojave Road — Barstow to Needles via Government Holes, Piute Spring, and Fort Piute
140 miles of frontier desert — earned, not given.