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Backroads is a column dedicated to the road less traveled.
More and more highspeed conduits of point to point, departure to destination highways are being expanded. These are often enlarged to contain growing amounts of vehicular traffic, while providing for faster and less distracted travel.

What some would call distractions, others of us call attractions.
And I don't mean "roadside attractions" only.
Though there definitely are those along our backroads. But often enough, the backroad itself can be the main attraction.
Those of us who have learned that something momentuous is lost in main road passage; and that the only thing gained from highspeed travel may be nothing more than a mercurial notion that some time has been saved.(For what?)

This column will provide glimpses along and of some of Floyd County's backroads. Glimpses mostly in pictures and a handful of words.
In respect for they who live along them and for they who treasure and appreciate them and their growing rarity, we will not divulge their exact whereabouts.
Suffice it to say..in Floyd County..so far..so many of our roads are backroads..so many of our roads are still..as yet..the road less traveled.

Send your favorite backroads photos as gif.'s or jpg.'s (and a little description) to:
FLOYD COUNTY INVIEW

Any photograph or all photographs on this page or anywhere on any page or site of Floyd County In View are the copyrighted property of the photographer(s) and/or Floyd County In View and may not be printed, downloaded, copied or reproduced in any form without the express permission of the photographer(s)and/or Floyd County In View. All Rights Reserved.

Driving along a hardtop in Alum Ridge, this collection of old farm machinery..hand decorated and lined up as though in a gallery....and then a few miles further..a turn onto a road less traveled...

"ROUND BARNS"

Driving down a gravel road...I see a..

ROUND BARN

Round Barn 2 CLOSER

rare round barn Built in the late 1800's, very few round barns are to be found in southwestern Virginia; this one just off of a gravel road in the northwestern section of Floyd County.

"COUNTRY ROAD" and that basket on the wall of the barn isn't waiting for a bushel...

Send your favorite backroads photos as gif.'s or jpg.'s (and a little description) to:
FLOYD COUNTY INVIEW

PLEASE SUPPORT THE FLOYD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
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Available for immediate adoption at the Floyd County Dog Pound :745-9365 (click on photo!)

Pets in the pound are regularly destroyed;
The pet in this photo may have less than a week to live.
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