New Mexico
ModerateLonesome Highway — Jemez Mountains High Road to Valles Caldera via Forest Road 376
Supervolcano rim road, elk, obsidian, solitude.
Trail Type: High Clearance
California
ModerateGenesee Road to Shuteye Peak — Sierra Nevada Foothills Mining Spine via Bass Lake
Sierra summit, zero crowds, hundred-mile views.
Oregon
ModerateCoyote Hills to Warm Springs Summit — Ochoco National Forest High Divide via Antelope Flat (Oregon)
High ponderosa divide above Oregon's fossil country.
Oregon
ModerateGrave Creek Road to Rogue River Ranch — Wild Rogue Wilderness Canyon Rim via Marial (Oregon)
Oregon's wildest river canyon by dirt road.
California
DifficultMojave Road — Afton Canyon to Kelso Depot via Soda Mountains and Government Holes
Oldest road across the Mojave Desert.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Sunlight Basin Road to Dead Indian Summit via Clarks Fork Absaroka
Wyoming's deepest canyon on a forgotten back road.
Nevada
ModerateLonesome Highway — Extraterrestrial Highway to Rachel via Tikaboo Valley and Coal Valley Crossing
Nevada's loneliest corridor. Eyes on the sky.
Texas
DifficultLonesome Highway — Big Bend Ranch State Park River Road to Sauceda via Fresno Canyon
The raw Chihuahuan Desert on its own terms.
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.