dirt road

noun

: a road with a hard dirt surface : an unpaved road

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Thirteen miles down an unmarked dirt road quietly sits the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, along the Chama River in Northern New Mexico. Faith Salie, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025 The hill sits off a dirt road and takes a bit of trudging up before the dimpled geodes start appearing in earnest. Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025 There are several paved entrances as well as a handful of dirt road entrances. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025 Everything was going smoothly until the last slow-going 2-mile stretch of dirt road leading to the camping and trail area. New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dirt road

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“Dirt road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirt%20road. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.

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