Colorado
DifficultLonesome Highway — Breaks of the Yampa River to Harpers Corner via Echo Park Road
Steamboat Rock and two rivers at the bottom.
Surface: Rock
USA
ExpertSlickrock Trail — Moab’s Iconic Sandstone Circuit via the Practice Loop
The sandstone circuit that built Moab's legend.
USA
DifficultLockhart Basin Road — Canyonlands South Rim to Needles via Colorado River Benchlands
Colorado River shelf road with zero easy exits.
Arizona
DifficultSawmill Road to Superstition Mountains Backdoor — Tonto National Forest Four Peaks Wilderness via Fish Creek Hill
Fish Creek cliff drop — Sonoran Desert at its most vertical.
USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn National Forest North Fork and Porcupine Creek Divide
Basin to canyon — Bighorn backcountry at its loneliest.
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch to Beef Basin — Abajo Mountains Desert Rim via Dark Canyon Plateau
Anasazi ruins, zero crowds, real canyon country.
USA
ModerateSawmill Road to Bald Mountain — Uinta High Uinta Wilderness Subalpine Approach via Mirror Lake
Top of Utah's east-west range.
New Mexico
ModerateZuni-Acoma Trail Road to McGaffey Lookout — Cibola National Forest High Rim via Oso Ridge
Zuni Mountains high rim above Gallup.
Texas
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Big Bend Basin via Persimmon Gap and the Dead Horse Mountains
Comanche country — 26 miles of Chihuahuan Desert solitude.
Colorado
DifficultNellie Creek Road to Engineer Mountain — Uncompahgre Wilderness Subalpine Approach via Henson Creek
Shelf road to the San Juan subalpine — no room for second thoughts.