Colorado
ModerateLonesome Highway — Centennial Road to Ridgway via Last Dollar Road and the Uncompahgre Plateau
Aspen gold and 14,000-foot peaks above Telluride.
Trail Type: Scenic Drive
Idaho
ModerateSwamp Creek Road to Selway Falls — Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness River Canyon Rim via Horse Creek
Wild river. No dams. No crowds. No excuses.
Alabama
ModerateLonesome Highway — Little River Canyon Rim to DeSoto Falls via Lookout Mountain Bench
Alabama's deepest canyon, driven rim to falls.
USA
ModerateLonesome Highway — Canyonlands River Road to Mineral Bottom via Green River Benchlands
Switchbacks to the Green River — no crowd, no guardrails.
Africa
DifficultNamib Naukluft Park Central Desert Circuit
Oldest desert. No mercy. All reward.
Namibia
ModerateSossusvlei Dune Circuit
The oldest desert on earth — drive in, not over.
Ethiopia
DifficultBale Mountains Overland Route
Africa's highest plateau drive. Wolves included.
Morocco
ModerateErg Chebbi Grand Dune Circuit
The real Sahara. Sand in everything.
Botswana
ModerateMakgadikgadi & Nxai Pan Circuit
Flat, vast, ancient — and absolutely unforgiving.
Ethiopia
DifficultSimien Mountains High Route
Africa's roof, edge to edge.