USA
ModerateCottonwood Canyon Road — Grand Staircase-Escalante Badlands Spine via Grosvenor Arch
The Cockscomb badlands on dirt and clay.
Surface: Mixed
Oklahoma
ModerateLonesome Highway — Ouachita Mountains Talimena Scenic Drive via Rich Mountain and Black Fork
Ridge-running hardwoods and forgotten red-clay spurs.
Montana
ModerateBeartooth Highway North Slope Road — Red Lodge to Cooke City via Beartooth Pass Summit
America's highest paved road with gravel teeth.
USA
DifficultComb Wash to Grand Gulch — Cedar Mesa Plateau Rim via Kane Gulch Trailhead
Ruins, slickrock, and a canyon full of ghosts.
Tennessee
DifficultBreaks of the Cumberland — Big South Fork Rim Road via Station Camp Ford and No Business Creek
Appalachian gorge ford country — remote and unforgiving.
USA
ModerateNebo Loop to Bear Canyon — Uinta National Forest Wasatch Plateau Backdoor via Birdseye Pass
Nebo's raw east face — shelves, shale, and desert views.
New Mexico
ModerateCoyote Ridge to San Pedro Parks — Santa Fe National Forest High Mesa Circuit via Nacimiento Peak
New Mexico's boggy subalpine mesa on FR 70.
Montana
DifficultGates of the Mountains Road to Meriwether Canyon — Helena National Forest Missouri River Backcountry via Mann Gulch
Lewis and Clark country — above the limestone gate.
USA
ModerateLaramie River Road to Twin Lakes — Medicine Bow National Forest Remote Valley Drive via Chambers Lake
Moose, meadows, and Medicine Bow solitude.
California
DifficultCoyote Hills to Trap Spring — Owens Peak Wilderness Desert Bench via Indian Wells Canyon
Sierra desert canyon — no pavement, no mercy.