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Yeah, it's kind of sad how pervasive roads/trails are:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894

With more than 14,000 of them, it's not possible to be more than 115 or so miles from one:

https://www.rd.com/article/farthest-away-from-mcdonalds/



Why is that sad? These can be logging trails you’d need to squint to actually see in the brush.

And 115 miles? That’s a huge distance.


Invasive species for one thing --- folks aren't nearly as careful about checking their vehicles as they ought to be.

Not huge enough when you're considering how the McDonald's have driven out little hole-in-the-wall places and that the presence of such a fast food restaurant requires a busy highway, or a reasonably dense population center.


Invasive species? Most of these trail aren't even used?


If they weren't used, they would quickly grow over and disappear.


Trail on a map don’t just “disappear” because they aren’t used.


Obviously you've never done trail maintenance --- an unused trail can quickly grow over, unless it is situated so that wildlife use it or there is some other mitigatingfactor.




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