Europe
ModerateTransfăgărășan Highway — Curtea de Argeș to Sibiu via the Fagaras Crest
Ceaușescu's mountain road over the Fagaras.
Surface: Gravel
USA
ModerateHells Backbone Road — Escalante to Boulder via the Spine Above Sand Creek Canyon
A CCC-built bridge between two canyon drops.
Arizona
ModerateForest Road 300 — Mogollon Rim Road from Payson to Show Low via the Rim Edge
Arizona's rim edge at 7,000 feet. All of it.
Montana
ModerateYankee Jim Canyon Road — Yellowstone River Gorge to Carbella via Paradise Valley
Toll road ghosts in a Yellowstone gorge.
USA
ModerateTeton Pass Road — Jackson to Victor via Wyoming’s Steepest Highway
Ten-percent grades and the Tetons in your mirrors.
California
ModerateBunny Flat to Panther Meadows — Mount Shasta Summit Road
Glaciers in your windshield at 8,000 feet.
California
DifficultWaucoba-Saline Valley Road — Owens Valley to Saline Valley via Inyo Mountains Crest
Death Valley's back door — hot springs and hard miles.
Arkansas
ModerateLonesome Road — Ouachita Mountains to Lake Ouachita Backcountry Spine
The South's best ridge run nobody's talking about.
California
ModerateDome Land Wilderness Road — South Fork Kern River to Rockhouse Basin
Southern Sierra granite country, zero crowds.
USA
ModeratePoison Creek Road — Bighorn Basin Floor to Sheep Mountain Anticline Overlook
Badlands, bent rock, and no one watching.