Down the Gravel Road

[MossRoad]

This might have been covered here before I'm not sure. I was just wondering how many miles of gravel or dirt roads you guys have to travel down to get home. Here lately it's been on my mind since this time of the year our roads can get pretty bad. The grader operator does his best with what he has to work with. There's two ways to my house. One way is 6 miles of county/gravel road when you leave the highway and the other is 5 miles. How about you?

I can honestly only think of about 5-10 miles of gravel roads in our entire county. Rural county roads are typically chip and sealed (tar sprayed down then chipped limestone rolled into the tar) while more major routes are asphalt, with a few concrete sections, but not too many.

 

[Duffster]

This might have been covered here before I'm not sure. I was just wondering how many miles of gravel or dirt roads you guys have to travel down to get home. Here lately it's been on my mind since this time of the year our roads can get pretty bad. The grader operator does his best with what he has to work with. There's two ways to my house. One way is 6 miles of county/gravel road when you leave the highway and the other is 5 miles. How about you?

There isn't any gravel roads left in the entire township. :thumbsup:

 

[Lurch]

About 200' of gravel road and another 300' of driveway. Dead end road so not a lot of traffic to tear it up.

 

[Grandad4]

Only 1/4 mile of gravel road, but it has what must be a pretty odd circumstance... by court order, it's a "public right of way, private road". Short explanation: It was originally a path used by a farmer cutting across some other fella's land back in horse-and-buggy days, which evolved into a dirt road used by several property owners. When a new land owner sought to restrict access, it went to court, where the road was made a public right of way, but not deeded to any gov't entity.

Someday, it'll be taken over by the county, but until then, I maintain it for the six owners that use it.

With apologies if this is too far off-topic, I've always wondered if there is precedent for such an arrangement, or if the honorable judge who issued this decree maybe had one snort too many at lunch before he came up with it.

 

[jinman]

I live one carwash and two dust devils down a gravel road. It doesn't matter how clean my car is when I leave the pavement, by the time I drive the mile down my road it's either muddy or dusty. In the summer, I rinse my car daily to keep the dust at a bearable thickness.

 

[Mousefield]

About 3/4 of a mile of mostly private gravel road then we hit pavement. :thumbsup:

 

[CurlyDave]

...he decided he was going to go down an old gob mine road and cut across the field...

What is a gob mine?

The mental images are amazing... No wonder he got stuck.

 

[RadarTech]

I live one carwash and two dust devils down a gravel road. It doesn't matter how clean my car is when I leave the pavement, by the time I drive the mile down my road it's either muddy or dusty. In the summer, I rinse my car daily to keep the dust at a bearable thickness.

Jinman,
Think of that as a privacy tax!
:thumbsup:

It could be worse..
At my house, I expect a mud fest every rain....
And that is the price of peacefulness..

J

 

[brin]

I can honestly only think of about 5-10 miles of gravel roads in our entire county. Rural county roads are typically chip and sealed (tar sprayed down then chipped limestone rolled into the tar) while more major routes are asphalt, with a few concrete sections, but not too many.

Same here Moss...Even though we live in a rural area ..going back even 30 yrs. ago we had chip and seal roads and only a very few gravel roads and now all the roads are asphalt..the county even has an ordinance that when you build and put in a driveway , at least the first 20 feet of your driveway must be concrete or asphalt...Now I can only think of about 3 short roads that are still gravel in our whole county.

 

[LBrown59]

1.75 miles of gravel one way, 1.25 miles the other.

How can it be further one way than the other.:confused2: