USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn Mountains North Slope and Battle Park Road
The Bighorns' quiet north slope — all yours.
Surface: Gravel
Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Challis via the White Cloud Peaks Backdoor and Patterson Creek
White Clouds without the permit lottery.
USA
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn National Forest Medicine Wheel Road
Sacred stone wheel at 10,000 feet. Drive it slow.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn Basin Rim and Red Gulch Road
Jurassic tracks and painted badlands, no guardrails.
California
DifficultEmigrant Pass Road — Death Valley’s Northern Backdoor via Bullfrog Hills
Death Valley's steep Panamint backdoor.
USA
ModerateCentennial Road — Big Sandy Lodge Approach via New Fork Canyon
Wind River Range western gate. Ford required.
Colorado
DifficultRollins Pass Road
Old railroad grade. New altitude problem.
USA
ModerateSawmill Road to Gros Ventre Slide — Kelly Warm Spring to Red Hills via Gros Ventre River Road
A landslide scar, red hills, and Teton solitude.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Elkhorn Mountains Crest to Marysville via Badger Pass and Scratchgravel Road
Ghost towns and ghost ridges above Helena.
Idaho
DifficultLolo Motorway — Lewis and Clark Trail from Lolo Pass to Weippe via FR 500
Lewis and Clark's ridge road — still wild.