page_title: Gravel road
section_title: Logging roads
hierarchical_section_title: Gravel road / Related types / Logging roads
caption_attribution_description: English: Trucks transporting logs in the forest of Eséka, Cameroon during the rainy season Français&#160;: Grumiers sur un route boueuse dans la forêt d'Eséka dans la region du Littoral (Cameroun) pendant la saison des pluies This is an image with the theme "Africa on the Move or Transport" from: Cameroon
context_page_description: A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. They are common in less-developed nations, and also in the rural areas of developed nations such as Canada and the United States. In New Zealand, and other Commonwealth countries, they may be known as metal roads. They may be referred to as "dirt roads" in common speech, but that term is used more for unimproved roads with no surface material added. If well constructed and maintained, a gravel road is an all-weather road.
context_section_description: Logging roads are constructed to provide access to the forest for logging and other forest management operations.  They are commonly narrow, winding, and unpaved, but main haul roads can be widened, straightened or paved if traffic volume warrants it.
  The choice of road design standards is a trade off between construction costs and haul costs (which the road is designed to reduce).  A road that serves only a few stands will be used by relatively few trucks over its lifetime, so it makes sense to save construction costs with a narrow, winding, unpaved road that adds to the time (and haul costs) of these few trips.  A main haul road serving a large area however will be used by many trucks each day, and each trip will be shorter (saving time and money) if the road is straighter and wider, with a smoother surface.
  Logging trucks are generally given right of way. In areas where this practice is regulated on non-highway roads with heavy logging traffic may be "radio-controlled", which is to say a CB radio on board any vehicle on the road is advised for safety reasons.
caption: Logging road near Eséka in Cameroon.
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