Before highways and blacktop, pioneers crossed California’s dunes on this—an actual wooden road. We visited the eerie remains ...

In the heart of California’s Imperial County lies a forgotten engineering marvel—The Old Plank Road. Built over shifting dunes to connect the West, this wooden highway once symbolized ambition ...

BLAST FROM THE PAST – In the mid-19th century, the country experienced the Plank Road Boom. George Geddes, an engineer from Syracuse, saw plank roads — which are exactly what they sound like ...