Nevada
DifficultCalico Mountains Wilderness Loop — Black Rock Desert Rim to High Rock Canyon
Volcanic walls, playa dust, and zero cell bars.
Surface: Rock
Colorado
DifficultLonesome Lake Trail — Bob Marshall Wilderness South Fork Approach via Benchmark
Engineer Pass: where the shelf road gets serious.
Arizona
ModerateSchnebly Hill Road — Sedona’s Red Rock Rim to Interstate 17 via Munds Mountain
Sedona's red rock back door to the Rim.
Oregon
ModerateBroken Top to Green Lakes — Cascade Volcanic High Country Road via Todd Lake
Pumice, volcanoes, and Oregon sky.
California
DifficultWaypoint to Wildrose Peak — Death Valley’s Charcoal Kilns and Panamint Crest Road
Kilns, crest, and Death Valley solitude.
Arizona
DifficultSawmill Canyon to Mount Lemmon — Santa Catalina Mountains Back Road
Desert floor to pine summit the hard way.
Idaho
DifficultLolo Motorway — Lewis and Clark’s War Road Across the Bitterroots
100 miles on the ridge Lewis and Clark barely survived.
Colorado
DifficultCinnamon Pass Road — Lake City to Silverton via the Alpine Loop
12,620 feet of raw San Juan shelf road.
Idaho
ModeratePaved Coffer to Hells Half Acre — Caribou-Targhee Volcanic Plateau Road
Apollo astronauts trained here. You can drive it.
Nevada
DifficultToiyabe Crest Trail Road — Arc Dome Wilderness Approach via Kingston Canyon
Nevada's forgotten alpine crest via canyon backdoor.