Paved, gravel, city street, busy, one lane, two lane, four lane, or just ruts in the grass?

I'm on a gravel road, and wish there was even less traffic.

Looks like this

Gravel! Sadly, when the wind is from the north.....you can hear semi’s on the paved road. A plus....90+ miles to the nearest interstate and a Wal-Mart, over 150 miles to a large (60 K people) City. It ain’t perfect.....but, “beats the hell” out of living in/ near a large city! memtb

Paved, dead end street, not much traffic.

I'm 1/2 mile from a paved road. Gravel driveway leading to my house......mine, and it's up to me to maintain it. That's okay, gives me privacy. Nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile as well.

Grew up on a dirt lane in P.G. County, MD within hearing distance of Byrd Stadium (U of MD). Adelphi Road, the intersecting county road was gravel. Last time I was in the are, about 2000, it was four lanes, at least.

My first house backed up to a two-lane state highway, but they widened it within a year, taking a chunk off the back of my lot in the process. Traffic will fill a void, and it did. Learned my lesson there.

This place is in a development, but in the interior section buffered by a row of acre+ lots in the front, and two in the rear. The intersecting county roads adjoining are crowned wagon roads that only get limited local traffic. I can hear traveling cars on the one, but usually not the other. I think I'm good here for the (my) duration. Impact fees and distance from the city have slowed development down. Not much work in this area that will support single-family housing; nearly everyone here commutes like I did. A pretty fair percentage are retired or almost there.

Paved now, used to be just walrus jacketed. Carries a fair amount of traffic, much of it because it leads to the road that goes through the underpass, which allows folks to avoid sitting and watching the UP crawl by.

This pic is standing in the county road that dead end's at the ranch, looking up the driveway.

Driveway is pretty long too. I don't get many "accidental" traffic.

Gravel.

A "township maintained" rutted out gravel goat path. It's hard on my vehicle, but then again, it discourages use by outsiders.

Paved, rougher than a night in jail, no lines, people drive about 75mph on it.

Gravel and 2 miles long which dead end. Some days no cars and some days a couple. Love it. Ed k

3/8 mile gravel drive which connects to a 1/2 mile gravel private dead end road with 5 other residents along the way

Quarter mile + of private gravel dead ends at my place. The gravel county road it branches off of is half mile long and dead ends at my brothers place. 4 miles into a town of 3k+/-, 10 miles to the next town of about the same size. 14 miles the other way is the big city, 10k pop.

About 1895 miles long and a mile wide in front of the lodge. Wet in the summer and slippery in the winter.

Paved cul-de-sac 50 yards from a mile of "my" city owned hunting woods and a quarter mile from where I wouldn't have city sewer, water and services.

Major highway Lots of traffic. Think i could throw a stone and hit the local high school.

Dirt road that ends in my garage.




My deck looks over Hwy 12 which parallels the river. It has some traffic (mostly log trucks} at certain times of the day but I tolerate it.

Major highway Lots of traffic. Think i could throw a stone and hit the local high school.

Paved one lane loop off the two lane county road.

Damn, Steel I did not know we're neighbors. That pic looks like the county road to our place. Barely two lanes and very little traffic. Our drive is 1/4 miles of ruts, wash outs and oil pan punchers. I keep maintained to the minimum to keep out the riff-raff.

Gravel county road. 2 miles off highway. Usual farmers and rancher traffic till deer season then looks like and interstate the first weekend.

dead end gravel, my house is at the dead end and have a long lane to there

Wabigoon: When the VarmintWife and I bought our home the private road from our house to the gravel country road was dirt - its .7 miles long and just two other families lived on it. Several years ago we had the .7 mile long drive to our home paved (cuts down on dust/mud at certain times of the year).
The Mule Deer, Whitetailed Deer and Antelope (along with Foxes, Badgers and the rare Coyote) don't seem to mind the drive being paved - as they traverse along and across it the same as before we paved it.
Still have a half mile of the county road (graveled) to travel til I hit public pavement.

Memtb: Its 105 miles for us to drive to the nearest Cost-Co! Nearest Wal-Mart is a mere 66 miles!
I've gotten used to that.

Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Hardwood drive near our homesite by Sharps Man, on Flickr

I am truly envious! memtb

Do they have any plans for a mall, subdivisions and a golf course? 🤨

Also, got you beat ( a little ) on the Costco....about 165 (Billings)! 🙂 memtb

The county road ends right at my front door. If you keep going, you run the risk of hitting my tobacco barn. A few drunks a year get lost and come close to doing just that. You either have to be lost or coming to see me to make it the last 3/4 of a mile.

80 years ago, the road extended through my property, joining the towns of Browningsville and Powersville. Powersville is now reduced to a few houses and a convenience store. Browningsville ceased to exist before 1900. It 1870 it had a school, a church, a post office and 2 doctors. However, the 2 doctors got to fighting and shot each other. For some reason, this marked the town's downfall. Browningsville fell off the map by 1910, and there is not much left. A black bear was denning in the basement of the old mill a few years ago, but even he's moved on.

The great-grandparents of the previous owners kept the road open so they could all go in one wagon to church on Sunday, but after the neighbor to the south stopped maintaining the ford over the creek, they started going the long way around. The foundation of their house and barn are barely recognizable now. The next generation built the house I'm in about 1902 using lumber scavenged the older homestead.

Paved 2-lane state highway. Runs between our pastures and the farm across the street. Typically very little traffic except for early morning and late afternoon when boats are headed to and from the confluence of the Buffalo and White rivers. Other than that it is only the locals during the day. Thankfully we are well off the highway on a gravel drive.

Abandoned towns and locations like that fascinate me. Cool post!

Asphalt, one way in, one way out. Love it.

A bit over a mile of private gravel road to this.

We have a road??

gravel.

Paved city street, but a dead end road and very out of the way so it's really quiet.

paved road.....my place is the end of city limits......

speeders ? you bet.....get tag number & call dispatch.......

although usually more ATV speeders than cars/trucks

need a sign that says........

'drive like your kids live here'

not much going on out back......

baling hay soon........my hay guys......

Paved. We live in a neighborhood. Hoping to change that one of these days. I want to be able to hunt my own land, and see the truck with a regular layer of dust and mud on it.

Paved country road.

We just paved our gravel driveway last week.

Paved Thank God.

It was just rock road till about 41 years ago.
before that it was dirt.
If it rained you did not go anywhere.

I'm on a country road,...no line down the middle,...enough room for 2 vehicles to go past each other but not a lot to spare. It was getting a bit rough so they came out a resurfaced a long stretch of it back in the spring.

It's my own dirt (sand) road in from a 2-lane paved county road.

I live in Oklahoma City. Here is a photo of the street in front of my house.

What is that falling out of the clouds?

Telephone pole picked up in tornado alley?

Yes a telephone pole. This was the 2013 Moore OK F5 that killed 24 and injured 212. Destroyed several school houses.

Single lane paved county road here. Three houses on the road. Lately we have been getting more tractor/implement traffic than anything else, everybody around here just cut hay.

My first thought, before I saw the location, was 'that sure looks like Oklahoma'.

Paved, but we got moose, black and brown bears, and caribou.

Country 2 lane about 3/4 mile up my dirt drive. I do have a neighbor about 250 yards away though through the woods. I'm 7 miles from a small town with over 80% white population.

Paved (tar and pea gravel) country road, no centerline, but two cars can pass if they mind their manners, single lane bridge over the creek though . My driveway is single lane dirt and gravel, pretty good grade.

Paved secondary county sectionline, 400 feet away. Busiest when the spud trucks show up in the spring.

Ours is paved with rough asphalt and dead ends just up the street from our place, just how we like it. Driveway is covered with RAP to keep the dust down.

dust in Alaska ?

Lol........yeah, it tends to get pretty dry here at times.

dry ???????

our whole fuggin' State has been on fire !!!!!

Finally getting some rain to keep down wildfires.........

and dust !

County road in front of the "Canta Forda" ranch!

Yes, dry, we have something like 85 wildfires burning throughout the state right now.

Or this come winter.