New Zealand
ModerateNinety Mile Beach / Northland Forest Tracks – Northland 4WD Circuit
The beach is the road. Respect the tides.
Surface: Sand
New Zealand
ModerateNinety Mile Beach / Northland 4WD Track
New Zealand's tidal highway — time it right.
Australia
DifficultOld Andado Track
Remote desert track at the edge of the Simpson.
New Zealand
ModerateNinety Mile Beach to Cape Reinga – Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē
Drive the tide. Read it wrong once.
Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Challis via the Lost River Valley Desert Floor
Idaho's emptiest valley under its highest peaks.
Colorado
EasySawmill Road to Hazel Bazemore Peak — Comanche National Grassland Desert Rimrock via Carrizo Canyon
Forgotten canyon. Petroglyphs. Zero crowds.
Nebraska
ModerateSawmill Road to Niobrara Breaks — Nebraska National Forest Sandhills Edge via Snake River Canyon
Hand-planted pine, hidden canyon, real sand.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Seedskadee to South Pass via the Oregon Trail Desert Corridor
Oregon Trail ghost road across the divide.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Canyonlands River Road to Mineral Bottom via Green River Benchlands
Switchbacks to the Green River — no crowd, no guardrails.
South Carolina
ModerateSwamp Fox Road to Bear Island — Francis Marion National Forest Lowcountry Pinelands Circuit
Blackwater swamps and longleaf silence in coastal SC.