Idaho
ModerateYankee Fork Road — Clayton to Custer Ghost Town via the Salmon River Mountains
Ghost towns, gold dredges, and Idaho canyon gravel.
Trail Type: Backcountry
Arizona
ModerateFossil Creek Road — Strawberry to Fossil Springs via the Verde Rim Descent
Arizona's wildest spring down a rim shelf road.
USA
EasyLonesome Highway — Breaks of the Laramie to Vedauwoo via Wyoming High Plains
Granite tors and pronghorn on Wyoming's forgotten high plain.
USA
ModerateYankee Meadows to Panguitch Lake — Markagunt Plateau High Road
Utah's quiet plateau road most drivers never find.
Idaho
DifficultLonesome Highway — Jarbidge Wilderness to Bruneau Canyon via the Owyhee Plateau Divide
Last stagecoach robbery country. Still no one around.
USA
ModerateBreaks Interstate Park Road — Pine Mountain to Russell Fork Gorge via Towers Tunnel Overlook
Deepest gorge east of the Mississippi. Earn the view.
Colorado
ModerateTowaoc to Mesa Verde Backcountry — Ute Mountain Tribal Park Canyon Loop
Cliff dwellings Mesa Verde tourists never see.
Oklahoma
ModerateLonesome Pine Road — Ouachita National Forest Ridge to Kiamichi Mountains via Big Cedar
The South's forgotten mountain backcountry run.
California
ModerateSurprise Valley Road — Cedarville to Eagleville via the Warner Range Fault Escarpment
California's loneliest valley. Hot springs included.
Arizona
DifficultBradshaw Road to Crown King
Mining road to a mile-high Arizona saloon.