Texas
DifficultLonesome Highway — Big Bend Ranch State Park River Road to Sauceda via Fresno Canyon
The raw Chihuahuan Desert on its own terms.
Trail Type: Backcountry
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Bighorn Mountains West Slope to Shell Falls via Highway 14 Backcountry Spur
Wyoming canyon country above the basin floor.
USA
ModerateComb Wash Road to Natural Bridges — Cedar Mesa Canyon Country via Mule Canyon
Ancestral canyon country, start to stone bridge.
California
ModeratePoverty Flat Road to Pumpkin Center — Diablo Range Remote Basin Traverse via Del Puerto Canyon
California's forgotten canyon country.
Idaho
DifficultHells Canyon Rim Road — Pittsburg Landing to Imnaha
Deepest canyon on the continent. You earn this one.
Arkansas
ModerateOuachita National Recreation Trail — Winona to Iron Fork
Arkansas ridge-and-creek backcountry, no crowds.
USA
ExpertCanyonlands Elephant Hill Jeep Road
Utah's most notorious slickrock gauntlet.
Colorado
DifficultAlpine Loop — Animas Forks to Engineer Pass via the San Juan High Country
Four passes, three ghost towns, one brutal San Juan circuit.
Alaska
ModerateWrangell Mountains Loop — McCarthy Road to Kennecott via Chitina and the Copper River Corridor
Railroad spikes and copper ghosts in the Wrangells.
USA
ModerateCottonwood Canyon Road — Grand Staircase-Escalante Badlands Spine via Grosvenor Arch
The Cockscomb badlands on dirt and clay.