Traveling the back roads
How many others take the secondary highway rather than the interstates? We like the little towns along the way. you miss a lot on the freeways.
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I use the U.S. numbered highways extensively. In much of the country between the Mississippi tier of states and the Sierra Nevada, this is the primary highway system, unless you are crossing East-West on three or four narrow corridors.
You usually have to drive slower, and more carefully, because even where multi-lane divided these roads are not limited access, and can be carrying slow traffic, like agricultural implements, bicycles, and animal-drawn vehicles. Lane widths are usually at least twelve feet where two-lane, but often the shoulders are unimproved, very narrow, and sometimes non-existent (state highways particularly).
I use the back roads (county roads, farm to markets, oilfield service roads) locally. Sometimes paved, sometimes just "improved" with total width sometimes 20 feet or less. I can't recommend these for RV travel.
You usually have to drive slower, and more carefully, because even where multi-lane divided these roads are not limited access, and can be carrying slow traffic, like agricultural implements, bicycles, and animal-drawn vehicles. Lane widths are usually at least twelve feet where two-lane, but often the shoulders are unimproved, very narrow, and sometimes non-existent (state highways particularly).
I use the back roads (county roads, farm to markets, oilfield service roads) locally. Sometimes paved, sometimes just "improved" with total width sometimes 20 feet or less. I can't recommend these for RV travel.
