USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Tensleep Canyon via the Bighorn National Forest North Fork and Porcupine Creek Divide
Basin to canyon — Bighorn backcountry at its loneliest.
Trail Type: Backcountry
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch to Beef Basin — Abajo Mountains Desert Rim via Dark Canyon Plateau
Anasazi ruins, zero crowds, real canyon country.
Colorado
DifficultNellie Creek Road to Engineer Mountain — Uncompahgre Wilderness Subalpine Approach via Henson Creek
Shelf road to the San Juan subalpine — no room for second thoughts.
Texas
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Big Bend Basin via Persimmon Gap and the Dead Horse Mountains
Comanche country — 26 miles of Chihuahuan Desert solitude.
New Mexico
ModeratePoison Canyon Road to El Malpais — Zuni-Acoma Lava Field Desert Rim via Cebolita Mesa
Lava field rim run in the New Mexico badlands.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Meeteetse via the Absaroka Front and Greybull River Bench
Badlands, benchlands, and the Absaroka wall.
Nevada
ModerateLonesome Highway — Trego Hot Springs Road to Black Rock Desert Playa via Soldier Meadows
Ancient lakebed, no fences, no rules, no help.
USA
DifficultLonesome Highway — Teton Pass Road to Victor via Coal Creek Summit Backdoor
The Tetons summit nobody's driving but you.
South Carolina
ModerateDeerfield Road to Jocassee Gorges — Sumter National Forest High Divide via Horsepasture River Bench
Blue Ridge gorge country you earn on dirt.
Nebraska
ModerateLonesome Highway — Sandhills Cattle Drive Road to Thedford via the Dismal River Valley Back Road
Empty dunes, cold river, no signal — Nebraska raw.