Dirt road

How to properly navigate a dirt road’s muck-filled abysses while not making them worse for the next driver

Is this the best time of year, long summer nights? What's your go to evening activity this time of year. I come from a French cricket family and love to play that. It's a good one cause if you're not batting you can play with a beer in hand...

M. R. O’Connor writes about Sam Correro, the creator of the TransAmerica Trail, and the pleasures of navigating what the writer William Least Heat-Moon called “blue highways,” the dirt roads of America.

Load up the car, fill the tank, and take one of these spectacular trips, plotted by experts and genius local moms

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Sunsets and dirt roads!

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and his tightly written stories paint a vivid picture of life back in the 20s, 30s, and 40s. His stories focus on Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, which were areas […]

A farmer's dirt road back where I hunt, on a beautiful day.

One summer evening, my husband and I got in our old truck and drove down a remote dirt road. We drove and drove and drove and didn't see a soul. I always wonder where the telephone poles go--no one seems to live out here. We explored the backroads for almost four hours and didn't see a single person. We saw abandoned farm equipment and an old truck but no people. As the sun was setting I jumped out of the truck and took this photo of the country road. I thought it was just a nice country…