Australia
DifficultOld Andado Track
Remote desert track at the edge of the Simpson.
Surface: Mixed
Arkansas
ModerateSawmill Road to Ouachita Headwaters — Talimena High Divide via Wilhelmina Ridge
The South's forgotten high-country back road.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Beartooth Plateau East Face to Sunlight Basin via Dead Indian Pass and Clarks Fork Divide
The Beartooth nobody drives — Absaroka raw and real.
Colorado
EasySawmill Road to Hazel Bazemore Peak — Comanche National Grassland Desert Rimrock via Carrizo Canyon
Forgotten canyon. Petroglyphs. Zero crowds.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Dubois via Sheridan Pass and the Wind River Badlands
Painted badlands, sage, and a forgotten Shoshone pass.
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.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Canyonlands River Road to Mineral Bottom via Green River Benchlands
Switchbacks to the Green River — no crowd, no guardrails.