California
DifficultCoyote Flat to Fish Lake Valley — White Mountains High Desert Traverse via Chiatovich Creek
Bristlecones, shelf road, and a basin nobody finds.
Surface: Gravel
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Dubois via Sheridan Pass and the Wind River Badlands
Painted badlands, sage, and a forgotten Shoshone pass.
Idaho
ModerateSwamp Creek Road to Selway Falls — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness River Canyon Rim via Horse Creek
Wild river. No dams. No crowds. No excuses.
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 — Centennial Divide Road to Encampment via Sierra Madre High Country
Sierra Madre's forgotten Continental Divide run.
Oklahoma
ModerateLonesome Highway — Breaks of the Cimarron to Black Mesa via the Kenton Backdoor
Oklahoma's forgotten corner, higher than you think.