USA
ModerateWedge Overlook to Iron Wash — San Rafael Swell West Rim Desert Circuit
Slot reef, Sinbad country, nobody else around.
Surface: Sand
California
ModerateOnion Valley to Horseshoe Meadows — Eastern Sierra High Country Traverse
Sierra fault scarp, Alabama Hills, no crowds.
USA
DifficultSquaw Flat to Confluence Overlook — Needles District Canyon Country Bench Road
Slickrock and sand to where two rivers collide.
California
ModerateCougar Buttes Road — Johnson Valley OHV Area to Pioneertown via High Desert Bench
Mojave bench run to an outlaw film-set town.
USA
DifficultMuddy Creek Canyon Road — San Rafael Swell Slot to Factory Butte via Muddy Creek
Slot canyon mud and badlands — earn every mile.
USA
DifficultCathedral Valley Loop — Capitol Reef’s Remote Northern Circuit
Monoliths, mud, and a river ford nobody warns you about.
Oregon
EasyAlvord Desert Playa to Fields Station — Steens Mountain East Escarpment Base
A mile-high fault wall and an alkali desert floor.
California
ModerateHungry Valley to Gorman — Los Padres Desert Ridge Run
Tehachapi ridge chaos where two ranges collide.
Oregon
EasyAlkali Flat Road — Summer Lake Basin to Christmas Valley via Silver Lake Desert Floor
Sixty miles of alkali silence in Oregon's outback.
California
DifficultPismo Dunes to Oceano — Nipomo Mesa Coastal Sand Run
California's last driveable Pacific beach.