California
ModerateLonesome Highway — Copper Mountains Road to Amargosa Valley via Beatty Cutoff and Daylight Pass
Death Valley's back door through volcanic badlands.
Surface: Gravel
Colorado
ModerateLonesome Highway — Lost Creek Wilderness Road to Goose Creek via Rampart Range and Tarryall Mountains
Colorado's best Front Range ridge run.
USA
ModerateCoyote Gulch to Hurricane Ridge — Olympic Peninsula High Country Circuit via Obstruction Point Road
Olympic's roughest road ends at the sky.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Flint Creek Valley via the Anaconda Range Bench
Big sky bench. Old copper country. No company.
Arizona
ModeratePinery Canyon Road — Chiricahua Mountains Sky Island Crest via Onion Saddle
Sky Island spine. Jaguar country. Zero crowds.
Oregon
ModerateSawmill Road to Breakneck Meadow — Siskiyou Mountains High Divide via Grayback Mountain
Siskiyou ridgeline. Elk. No cell service.
Oregon
ModerateLonesome Highway — Siskiyou Crest Road to Ashland via Mount Ashland Spine
Two states, one crest, zero crowds.
North Dakota
ModerateLonesome Highway — Little Missouri Badlands to Marmarth via Chalky Buttes Back Road
Fossil badlands on a road the maps almost forgot.
Oregon
ModerateLonesome Highway — Owyhee Uplands to Jordan Craters via the Duck Valley Back Road
Lava craters and open desert with zero company.
South Dakota
ModerateCuster Peak Road — Black Hills High Country Drive to Fire Lookout via Deadwood Backcountry
Northern Black Hills summit with 360-degree payoff.