There was little left afterward other than an airstrip, now private, and a large gravel pad.

Swirls of snow swept around the plane when it touched down lightly on the crushed gravel pad outside the monastery's gray stone walls.

From the gravel pad he could see downslope to the drowned city of Port Townsend and the cluster of scuba-diving camps huddled around it.

Her old carry capsule was resting on the gravel pad.

Wells are now constructed in tight ranks on small gravel pads, branching out underground instead of peppering the surface over a broad area.

In past decades, Arctic oil development involved huge amounts of equipment that had to be moved over gravel roads and laid upon large gravel pads.

The horizontal platoons built a medical gravel pad.

Little more than a gravel pad, it is a roosting place for seagulls in the summertime.

Don't even think about camping: the tundra is a quagmire and the gravel pads are plied by speeding pickups.

The project stabilized the foundation on a gravel pad and reset the cabin's porch posts.