The phrase "a stony path" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a difficult or challenging journey, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "After years of hard work and perseverance, she finally found success, but it was a stony path to get there."
Alternatives: "a rocky road" or "a difficult journey".
A stony path leading to the door may need to be fixed, too.
MILAN — Floating clouds, peaked mountains and an ancient wall leading to infinity, with a young man walking a stony path — and then actually stepping onto the runway.
Swarathok is accessible only via roads still threatened by landslides and strewn with debris, followed by an hour's walk along a stony path.
Turn right on to a stony path and follow a fence on to the airy top of Arthur's Seat, crossing rocky slabs.
Reaching the village takes two hours driving on roads still threatened by landslides and strewn with debris, followed by an hour's walk along a stony path.
With Nick Clegg stepping down – he would be an ideal candidate to succeed Sir Malcolm Rifkind as chair of parliament's intelligence and security committee – his successor faces a stony path in whichever direction he looks.
The entrance is reached by traversing across someone's property via a narrow stony path couldn't be more than a foot wide.
They are uttered, or just thought, at the crucial moment in many a great walk, usually when a corner is turned and the true dimensions of the landscape open up and show a narrow stony path, winding onwards for long miles, always upwards, to a goal that is impossibly distant and probably wreathed in ominous black clouds.
Nearby a small stony path descends to the Cales Coves.
A narrow, stony path between Turf Locks and Powderham needs extra care, especially when riding with kids, but this short section is being improved and a safe crossing over the railway line is due to open at the end of September.
The first part of the path, a boardwalk that offers great views of the turquoise water of the Gualdalhorce river swirling below and the cliffs, eventually turns into a stony track that gently runs down and then slopes gradually upwards.
