Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
Probably not in this area, at least. Dairy farmers need to get their product to market year round, regardless of weather conditions. The Dairy Lobby here in Wisconsin was largely responsible for the push to get almost all our roads paved, so the milk trucks could always get to the farms. I don't see that changing with autonomous vehicles.
Yeah, it's interesting. Wisconsin has beautiful paved rural roads that are an absolute joy, but for that very reason, compared to Minnesota or Michigan, Wisconsin does not have nearly as great opportunities for riding gravel - except NW Wisconsin, of course.
Looking at gravelmap.com shows many of the extensive gravel networks. The data are user-submitted, so it's not a full indication of where the gravel roads are - just where people have submitted info. So it's a combination of where the gravel is and where the gravel riding scene is well-developed