California
ExpertDusy-Ershim Off-Highway Vehicle Route — Kings Canyon to Owens Valley Divide
Sierra's most brutal legal rock crawl, period.
Trail Type: Technical 4x4
California
DifficultPuite Canyon Road — White Mountains to Volcanic Tablelands via Chalfant Valley
Eastern Sierra slot canyon meets volcanic moonscape.
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch Loop — Grand Staircase-Escalante Slickrock and Canyon Circuit
Arches, slickrock, and soft sand. Earn it.
California
DifficultOwens Peak Wilderness Road — Indian Wells Valley to Chimney Peak via Nine Mile Canyon
Sierra meets Mojave in a canyon nobody knows.
USA
ExpertCanyonlands Maze District — Flint Trail to Doll House
Utah's hardest gate into its wildest canyon.
Oregon
DifficultOwyhee River Breaks Road — Succor Creek to Three Forks Hot Springs via Leslie Gulch
Oregon's canyon badlands, hot springs earned.
California
ModerateChimney Peak to Fish Creek Road — Southern Sierra Nevada Desert Transition Zone
Ancient sea floor, badlands, and deep desert sand.
California
DifficultMendocino National Forest Bloody Rock Road — Lake Pillsbury to Covelo via Hull Mountain
Ridgeline history and rugged solitude in the Coast Range.
USA
ExtremeElephant Hill Trail — Needles District Canyonlands Slickrock Circuit
Canyonlands slickrock at its most unforgiving.
California
ExpertLippincott Road — Racetrack Playa to Saline Valley Floor
Death Valley's loose shale descent to nowhere.