Idaho
ModerateSwamp Creek Road to Selway Falls — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness River Canyon Rim via Horse Creek
Wild river. No dams. No crowds. No excuses.
Surface: Dirt
New Mexico
DifficultSawmill Road to Picuris Peak — Carson National Forest Sangre de Cristo Desert Divide via Vadito
Sangre de Cristo solitude above Taos.
Colorado
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Chico Basin via the Wet Mountains Piedmont Bench
Forgotten Colorado piedmont where the mountains meet the plains.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn Basin Rim
Wyoming's red canyon rim, earned not paved.
Alabama
ModerateLonesome Highway — Little River Canyon Rim to DeSoto Falls via Lookout Mountain Bench
Alabama's deepest canyon, driven rim to falls.
Nebraska
ModerateSawmill Road to Niobrara Breaks — Nebraska National Forest Sandhills Edge via Snake River Canyon
Hand-planted pine, hidden canyon, real sand.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Seedskadee to South Pass via the Oregon Trail Desert Corridor
Oregon Trail ghost road across the divide.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Canyonlands River Road to Mineral Bottom via Green River Benchlands
Switchbacks to the Green River — no crowd, no guardrails.
Montana
DifficultSawmill Road to Montezuma Mine — Custer National Forest Pryor Mountain Rim via Sage Creek Basin
Wild horses, Bighorn rimrock, and ghost mine ruins.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Divide Road to Encampment via Sierra Madre High Country
Sierra Madre's forgotten Continental Divide run.