Changing to a more rural roadway, NY 156, bending southeast through Guilderland.

School has been closed since Monday, as plows worked to reach rural roadways.

By this point, the route has entered the town of Reading as a two-lane rural roadway.

In some cases, particularly on older rural roadways, shoulders that do exist are made of gravel rather than hard asphalt or concrete.

The rural roadway continues northeast through the town and soon becomes a local roadway along the fields in Onondaga County.

After the crossing, NY 197 becomes a rural two-lane roadway, passing eastward through farms.

The poverty rate is 30 percent and above in both places, barely perceptible interruptions of broken-down houses on remote rural roadways.

Until the 1920s, the rural, gravel roadway was known as Sunshine Trail.

I saw a dust plume rising as they drove off Margrave's immaculate blacktop onto the dusty rural roadway.