The Appalachian Regional Commission awarded more than $7.4 million to "Backroads of Appalachia." The eastern Kentucky nonprofit promotes scenic drives on existing roads.

Vehicles listed here have been selected based primarily on how cheap they are and how much fun they would be to drive on a gravel road ... to throw around on soft dirt and gravel.

“The relevant issues for dirt roads is that we are increasingly ... and low-volume paved roads. In 2002, Virginia started the Rural Rustic Road Program, which was initially funded at $1 million.

In 1922, Saybrook farmer Clarence Rowe was elected road commissioner for Cheney’s Grove. Aware of the inherent difficulties of rural dirt roads that still existed in his township and the effects ...