dusty roads
Gritty rural paths
Dusty roads are unpaved or poorly maintained roads that kick up clouds of dust when traveled.
The phrase evokes rural areas, developing regions, or bygone eras before modern paving: We drove down dusty roads through the countryside.
Dusty roads carry connotations of remoteness, nostalgia, or adventure—the open road far from highways and cities.
- gravelLoose small rock fragments
- dirtLoose dry earth
- dirt trackUnpaved racing course
- unpavedWithout permanent road covering
- countrySovereign state or territory
country lane · rural · backroads · beaten path · trails · parched · arid · sun-baked · windswept · haze · grit · pickup · tires · wandering · long drive · horizon · heat · drought
- rural roadscountry lane, dirt tracks, rural route, country lanes, backroads
- farmlandfarms, farm, fields, field, barns
- East AfricaKenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi
- Roots Rockroots rock, country rock, Americana, alt-country, Neil Young
- Stagecoachstagecoach, coachmen, coach horses, relay stations, way stations
- Pampaspampas, pampas grass, estancia, gauchos, plains
road surface and condition
dusty roadspaved roads
Hard-surfaced thoroughfares
blacktop · motorways · freeways · superhighways · autobahns
dust, dusty, dustier, dustiest, dustiness, dusted, dusting, dusts, duster