surface road

noun

a road or street level with its surroundings:
surface roads and elevated highways.

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Navigating the surface roads to the park doesn’t go smoothly.

When twilight was done, he'd crossed to another surface road and was headed back toward the city.

Monticello is open to the public and may be reached by a hard surface road leading out of Charlottesville.

A mile or so, and there was another hard-surface road branching off.

We five pedestrians faced some heavy traffic on a surface road.

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