wagon roads
Routes for carts
Wagon roads are routes developed or improved to accommodate wheeled vehicles drawn by horses or oxen.
Before railroads and paved highways, wagon roads connected settlements and enabled commerce across rough terrain.
The term appears in historical contexts: The old wagon road through the pass is now a hiking trail.
Some became modern highways; others survive only as place names.
- supply routesChannels for transporting provisions
- overland routesPaths across terrain
- trading postsFrontier merchandise exchange stations
- pioneer trailsHistoric westward migration routes
- heritage trailsMarked routes through historically significant areas
forest trails · migration routes · river crossings · switchbacks · trade routes · oral histories · mountain passes · turnpikes · ruts · old west · westward expansion · Santa Fe Trail · museum exhibits · teamsters · Oregon Trail · way stations
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Fixed routes for trains
railways · railroads · train tracks · superhighways · interstate highways
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Navigable bodies for transport
canals · shipping channels · navigable rivers · shipping lanes · sea routes
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