>>2293488the line between logging road and trail in a national forest is sometimes blurry
in most cases almost everything thats a trail in some mountainous areas was also a skid road for logs when they initially logged these areas in the east.
Some were maintained as trails officially - some less so - some were once maintained post-logging area as trails - and were abandoned and no longer are.
There's plenty of random old roads and trails that are not tourist-trap-popular that you can find on a topo map.
Some trails lead to views or waterfalls, but sometimes yeah there's no trail and you just have to walk there.
There's the Allegheny Trail in WV - 330 mi potentially, and a million old logging roads/trails on public land in the high alleghenies in PA/WV/KY most of which will have few to no other people except maybe perfect weather weekends.
