USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Gros Ventre Slide to Turquoise Lake via Red Hills Road and Atherton Creek
Landslide scars, moose meadows, and no pavement.
Surface: Rock
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch to Death Hollow — Escalante River Wilderness Canyon Circuit via Hurricane Wash
Slot canyons, arches, and zero cell service.
Montana
DifficultLonesome Highway — Beartooth Plateau North Slope to Clarks Fork Canyon via Line Creek Road
Off the Beartooth and into the deep canyon country.
USA
ExpertMaze District Road — Hans Flat Ranger Station to Flint Trail via the Canyonlands Backcountry
The Maze: no margin, no crowds, no forgiveness.
Oregon
ModerateGrave Creek Road to Rogue River Ranch — Wild Rogue Wilderness Canyon Rim via Marial (Oregon)
Oregon's wildest river canyon by dirt road.
California
DifficultMojave Road — Afton Canyon to Kelso Depot via Soda Mountains and Government Holes
Oldest road across the Mojave Desert.
Texas
DifficultLonesome Highway — Big Bend Ranch State Park River Road to Sauceda via Fresno Canyon
The raw Chihuahuan Desert on its own terms.
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.
USA
ExpertCanyonlands Elephant Hill Jeep Road
Utah's most notorious slickrock gauntlet.