wagon road
Frontier vehicle route
A wagon road is a road suitable for travel by wagon—wide and graded enough for wheeled vehicles pulled by horses or oxen.
The term belongs mainly to historical contexts, describing routes that opened frontier territories to settlers and commerce: The Oregon Trail began as a wagon road west.
Distinguished from narrower paths or trails passable only on foot or horseback.
- Oregon TrailEmigrant route westward
- dustyCoated with fine particles
- rutsWorn parallel grooves
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- oxenCastrated male cattle
wheels · frontier · dirt · covered · stagecoach · pioneers · old west · hooves · muddy · track · journey · westward · horses · rocky · mountain pass · pass · caravan · settlers
- backroadsbackroad, byroad, byway, lane, country lane
- pathspathway, trail, walkway, footpath, walking path
- mountain roadsBlue Ridge Parkway, mountain pass, switchback, hairpin turn, incline
technological era of land transport
wagon roadhighway
Major road for travel
freeway · interstate · motorway · expressway · paved road
wagon, road, wagons, roads, roadway, roadways, roadside, roadsides, roadster