Lesotho
ExpertLesotho Highlands Road — Thaba-Tseka to Katse Dam via the Maluti Mountain Plateau
Lesotho's brutal plateau road to a mega-dam.
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Alaska
ModerateNena Creek to Skagway — Klondike Highway Backcountry via White Pass Summit
Gold Rush ghosts and an alpine border at 3,300 ft.
Colorado
ModerateColorado BDR North Segment — Walden to Steamboat Springs via Zirkel Wilderness Edge and Hahns Peak
North Park wide-open on the BDR's quiet end.
Argentina
DifficultPaso Vergara to Puerto Ramírez — Carretera Austral Backcountry via Río Palena
Patagonia before the tourists find it.
California
ModerateMojave Road — Government Holes to Piute Spring via Lanfair Valley and Fort Piute
An 1867 Army fort and a living spring, earned in sand.
China
DifficultSichuan–Tibet Highway — Litang to Daocheng via the Tibetan Plateau High Spine (G318/G227)
The high road to the last Shangri-La.
New Mexico
ModerateTurquoise Trail — Tijeras to Taos via the Sandia Mountains and High Road
Ghost towns, pueblo missions, and high desert light.
Mali
DifficultPiste du Bandiagara — Mopti to Sangha via the Dogon Escarpment Cliff Villages
Cliff villages and deep sand at the edge of the Sahel.
Australia
ExtremeCanning Stock Route — Wiluna to Halls Creek via the Great Sandy Desert Full Traverse
1,850 km of desert. No margin. No shortcuts.
Magadan Oblast
ExtremeTrans-Siberian Offroad — Yakutsk to Magadan via the Road of Bones (R504 Kolyma Highway)
Built on Gulag bones. Every kilometre costs something.