Botswana
DifficultSavute Channel Road — Mababe Gate to Savute Camp via the Mababe Depression and Gubatsa Hills
Lions on the road. Sand to the axles. Botswana.
Surface: Dirt
Ancash
ExpertHuayhuash Circuit Road — Llamac to Cuartelwain via the Cordillera Huayhuash High Passes
6,000m glaciers. Zero guardrails. Real Peru.
Northern Cape
ModerateNamaqualand Spectacle Road — Springbok to Kamieskroon via Skilpad and the Granite Koppies
Eight weeks of fire-orange wildflowers. Don't miss it.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Mornington to Fitzroy Crossing via the Central Kimberley Gorge Country
Corrugations, crossings, Kimberley red dirt.
Magadan Oblast
ExtremeRoad of Bones — Magadan to Yakutsk via the Kolyma Highway (R504)
Built on bones. Still trying to kill you.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Mornington Wilderness Camp to Silent Grove via the Fitzroy Crossing Connector
Kimberley corrugations with zero mercy.
Australia
ModerateLarapinta Drive — Hermannsburg to Glen Helen via Namatjira Drive and the West MacDonnell Gorges
Ancient gorges, red rock, and real desert silence.
Canada
ModerateDempster Highway — Dawson City to Eagle Plains via the Ogilvie Mountains
Gravel, permafrost, and tundra with no backup plan.
Afghanistan
ExtremeWakhan Corridor Road — Sarhad-e-Broghil to Bozai Gumbaz via the Little Pamir Plateau
Marco Polo sheep, Silk Road ghosts, no exits.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Galvans Gorge to Mornington Wilderness Camp via the Kimberley Plateau Interior
Deep Kimberley — corrugations, gorges, real wild.