Nevada
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Hills to Red Rock Canyon via the Sheep Range Crest
Vegas's forgotten wilderness — no casinos, no crowds.
Trail Type: Overland Route
California
ModerateLonesome Highway — Copper Mountains Road to Amargosa Valley via Beatty Cutoff and Daylight Pass
Death Valley's back door through volcanic badlands.
Colorado
ModerateLonesome Highway — Lost Creek Wilderness Road to Goose Creek via Rampart Range and Tarryall Mountains
Colorado's best Front Range ridge run.
Montana
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Flint Creek Valley via the Anaconda Range Bench
Big sky bench. Old copper country. No company.
Colorado
DifficultCrooked Creek Road to Mount Evans Backcountry — Arapaho National Forest High Country Traverse via Georgia Pass
Quiet Divide crossing above South Park's big sky.
North Dakota
ModerateLonesome Highway — Little Missouri Badlands to Marmarth via Chalky Buttes Back Road
Fossil badlands on a road the maps almost forgot.
Oregon
ModerateLonesome Highway — Owyhee Uplands to Jordan Craters via the Duck Valley Back Road
Lava craters and open desert with zero company.
Arizona
EasySitgreaves Pass Road — Oatman to Kingman via Black Mountains Historic Route 66 Spine
Route 66's meanest mountain crossing.
Montana
DifficultLonesome Highway — Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range to Crooked Creek via Bighorn River Benchlands
Wild mustangs, limestone canyons, and zero crowds.
Alabama
ModerateWilderness Road to Breaks of the Sandy Creek — Bankhead National Forest Canyon Rim via Sipsey Fork
Alabama slot canyons nobody's talking about.