California
ExpertBighorn Basin Road — Death Valley to Eureka Valley via Hanging Rock Canyon
Death Valley's punishing northern secret.
Surface: Sand
California
DifficultJawbone to Lake Isabella — Jawbone Canyon OHV Connector
Desert wash to Sierra foothills — earn every mile.
USA
ModerateCottonwood Wash Road — San Rafael Reef to Sinbad Country via Temple Mountain
Uranium ghost camps and sandstone silence.
California
ModerateFish Creek Wash — Anza-Borrego Desert Slot Canyon and Badlands Circuit
Ancient seafloor, slot canyons, and deep desert sand.
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch Loop — Grand Staircase-Escalante Slickrock and Canyon Circuit
Arches, slickrock, and soft sand. Earn it.
USA
ModerateBeef Basin Road — Bears Ears to Ruin Canyon via Elk Ridge
Ancient towers and canyon rims with no crowds.
California
DifficultOwens Peak Wilderness Road — Indian Wells Valley to Chimney Peak via Nine Mile Canyon
Sierra meets Mojave in a canyon nobody knows.
California
DifficultBradshaw Trail — Salton Sea to Colorado River Desert Crossing
Gold rush desert crossing, still unforgiving.
USA
ExpertCanyonlands Maze District — Flint Trail to Doll House
Utah's hardest gate into its wildest canyon.
Oregon
ModerateCascade Lakes Highway Backcountry Spur — Crane Prairie Reservoir to Cultus Lake via Deschutes National Forest
High Cascade lake country on pumice and pine duff.