back road
a little-used secondary road, especially one through a rural or sparsely populated area.
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Plus, by taking bike paths and back roads, I largely avoid traffic lights.
If you’ve got more than a day, tack on the 143-mile Smoky Mountain Loop for even more fun along Tennessee’s winding back roads.
In college, I used to love going for drives and getting lost on purpose, venturing into a landscape I hardly knew, awed by hollows covered in kudzu and rolling North Carolina back roads.
I thought we’d fumble around a series of back roads until we ran out of gas or I started crying, but instead we actually all had fun.
He told his siblings about driving down back roads in rural Georgia and seeing someone hanged from a tree.
Ronnie Hogue, who broke barriers at University of Georgia, dies of covid-19 | Amber Ferguson | December 10, 2020 | Washington Post
Haryopratomo spoke of a woman he met while riding his motorcycle on a back road in rural Indonesia.
Bringing Mobile Technology to the World’s Women | Nina Strochlic | September 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOur beach path was impassable, we found another way on the back road.
The road is what is called a "back road," and leads through woods most of the way.
Riverby | John BurroughsThrough taking the back road, I was so fortunate as to meet nobody, and arrived there uninterrupted.
The Trial of William Tinkling | Charles DickensSo it was this young lady that we saw coming tearing down the back road, as they called it, that led over the Pretty Plain.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodI drove way round the other way, up the back road, and unloaded him at Henry's house.
The Woman-Haters | Joseph C. LincolnInstead of walking through Deerbrook, she took a back road homewards, and drew down her veil.
Deerbrook | Harriet Martineau
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