The phrase "abandoned roads" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe roads that have been left unused or neglected, often evoking a sense of desolation or decay.
Example: "As we drove through the countryside, we stumbled upon a series of abandoned roads, overgrown with weeds and barely visible beneath the foliage."
Alternatives: "neglected roads" or "deserted roads".
He does not want to be out on abandoned roads.
Security officials said the district, at the southern edge of East Beirut, was a mass of shell-pocked houses, flaming buildings and smashed cars with bodies littering the abandoned roads.
The overgrown labyrinth; stone walls; the foundations of barns; a pine shack, collapsed; abandoned roads; a junk yard at the bottom of a ravine, a little village of bathtubs and glass bottles and old stoves and washbasins; dumped cars, a Plymouth of indiscernible vintage, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, its hood and trunk popped open, like an upturned deerstalker cap.
They miss the rushes grown long on the abandoned roads.
This tendency is evidenced by relict landscape features (e.g. road gullies, abandoned roads) formed in the period of more intensive land use, for which higher dynamics of the morphogenetic system may be inferred.
There are 20,000 km of abandoned roads of which 2600 unused.
The results are plain to see: tracts of parched farmland lie newly abandoned; road signs flash warnings of "extreme drought"; signs plead "Water = Jobs". According to a recent study by the University of California, Davis, the drought inflicted $1.5 billion in agricultural losses in 2014 alone.
An abandoned road skirts the woods, and you can see the rounded shapes of old oaks at a distance, but you cannot get in among them; we left the path and tried to hack in, but it was extraordinarily rough going and in the end we gave up.
Who knows how many underground tunnels could be littered in the basements of America's abandoned road trip pitstops.
Stretches of Route 66 were still visible from up on top of I-40 and we saw the dying motels and restaurants and tourist attractions along the nearly abandoned road.
The highway that once connected the nation, from Santa Monica to Chicago, was decommissioned in 1985, deconstructed piecemeal into a series of nondescript and neglected streets, a tired and abandoned road to nowhere.
