Nevada
ModerateLonesome Highway — Black Rock Desert Playa to Soldier Meadows via High Rock Canyon Rim
Playa to canyon. Flat to vertical. Nevada at its loneliest.
Trail Type: Overland Route
Botswana
ModerateNossob River Valley Track — Mata-Mata to Nossob Camp via the Kgalagadi Fossil Riverbed
Lions on a fossil river. No signal. No excuses.
Australia
DifficultGibb River Road — Silent Grove to Adcock Gorge via King Leopold Ranges and Lennard River
Limestone gorges and corrugations in the Kimberley.
California
ModerateMojave Road Central — Afton Canyon to Piute Spring via Mid Hills and Hole-in-the-Wall
Mojave's volcanic heart — canyon to cliff face.
Ethiopia
ExpertNairobi to Moyale — Northern Kenya Desert Highway via Marsabit and the Chalbi Desert
Kenya's hardest highway — not even close.
USA
ModerateGunsight Pass Road — Wind River Range Wilderness Backdoor via Big Sandy Desert and Lander Cutoff
Oregon Trail grit meets Wind River granite.
Namibia
DifficultSossusvlei to Naukluft Mountain Plateau — Hardap Desert High Spine via Solitaire and Tsaris Pass
Dunes to gorge country in one savage Namibian day.
Canada
ExpertWakuach Lake to Attikamagen — Trans-Labrador Wilderness Track via Schefferville Iron Range
Muskeg, iron ore, and no one coming to help.
Botswana
ModerateNossob to Twee Rivieren — Kgalagadi Transfrontier Fossil Riverbed Drive
Lions in the sand, no guardrails, no excuses.
Argentina
ExpertPaso Vergara to Cochrane — Aysén Highland Plateau Road via Lago Verde and the Palena Valley
Patagonia's forgotten crossing — ford it or turn back.