Some may see them as roads to nowhere or perhaps forgotten roads that once led to towns, work encampments or cabins of yesterday. I see them as roads to somewhere, or as Robert Frost might say the roads not taken.
They certainly are less taken by the populace at large. Those glorious forest, logging and old woods roads are throwbacks for cyclists looking to go beyond beaten paths.
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