rural road

Unpaved countryside path

A rural road is a road in the countryside, typically narrower and less maintained than urban streets or highways.

Rural roads often lack sidewalks, streetlights, and sometimes pavement: We drove down a winding rural road past farms and fields.

They connect small towns and agricultural areas to larger transportation networks.

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two-lane blacktop · winding · dusty · tractor · pickup truck · mailbox · fence posts · farm equipment · cornfields · backroad · unpaved · pasture · rolling hills · barn · ditches · cattle crossing · wildflowers · quiet

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Opposites
urbanization/location

rural roadcity street

road scale/capacity

rural roadhighway

Major road for travel

freeway · motorway · interstate · expressway · superhighway

traffic volume/activity

rural roadcommercial strip

Road lined with stores

Family

rural, road, rurally, rurality, roads, roadway, roadways, roadside, roadsides

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G