USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Sunlight Basin Road to Dead Indian Summit via Clarks Fork Absaroka
Wyoming's deepest canyon on a forgotten back road.
Surface: Mixed
Nevada
ModerateLonesome Highway — Extraterrestrial Highway to Rachel via Tikaboo Valley and Coal Valley Crossing
Nevada's loneliest corridor. Eyes on the sky.
Texas
DifficultLonesome Highway — Big Bend Ranch State Park River Road to Sauceda via Fresno Canyon
The raw Chihuahuan Desert on its own terms.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Bighorn Mountains West Slope to Shell Falls via Highway 14 Backcountry Spur
Wyoming canyon country above the basin floor.
USA
ModerateComb Wash Road to Natural Bridges — Cedar Mesa Canyon Country via Mule Canyon
Ancestral canyon country, start to stone bridge.
California
ModeratePoverty Flat Road to Pumpkin Center — Diablo Range Remote Basin Traverse via Del Puerto Canyon
California's forgotten canyon country.
Idaho
DifficultHells Canyon Rim Road — Pittsburg Landing to Imnaha
Deepest canyon on the continent. You earn this one.
Arkansas
ModerateOuachita National Recreation Trail — Winona to Iron Fork
Arkansas ridge-and-creek backcountry, no crowds.
USA
ExpertCanyonlands Elephant Hill Jeep Road
Utah's most notorious slickrock gauntlet.
Colorado
DifficultAlpine Loop — Animas Forks to Engineer Pass via the San Juan High Country
Four passes, three ghost towns, one brutal San Juan circuit.