California
DifficultLonesome Highway — Owens Valley Floor to Saline Valley via Waucoba Mountain
Over Waucoba into Death Valley's forgotten basin.
Trail Type: Overland Route
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Breaks of the Missouri Backcountry via Blaine County
Bentonite badlands and zero services for 80 miles.
Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Copper Basin Road to Mackay via the Lost River Range Front
Idaho's forgotten volcanic bowl under 12k peaks.
California
ModerateCarrizo Plain Overlook Road — Temblor Range Crest to Soda Lake via Caliente Ridge
Fault lines, alkali flats, and zero crowds.
USA
ModerateCoyote Gulch to Red Breaks — Hole-in-the-Rock Road Desert Slickrock Run
Mormon wagons went here. Your rig can too.
Idaho
ModerateLonesome Highway — Camas Creek Road to Craters of the Moon via the Great Rift Zone
Lava, silence, and the edge of the world.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Big Belt Mountains Divide to Canyon Ferry via Magpie Gulch
Big Belts divide. Nobody else up here.
USA
DifficultBirch Creek to Heart Mountain — Shoshone National Forest Absaroka Front Road via Dead Indian Hill
Absaroka front, geological freakshow, zero crowd.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Bighorn Mountains Powder River Pass to Hunter Corrals via Cloud Peak Wilderness Edge
Wyoming high plateau, zero crowds, big sky.
North Dakota
ModerateBloody Run Hills to Elkhorn Ranch — Little Missouri Badlands Remote Circuit
Roosevelt's badlands, one river crossing, zero pavement.