skid road

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A track made of logs laid transversely about five feet apart that is used to haul logs to a loading platform or a mill.
• noun Slang Skid row.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See road.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• A road along which logs are dragged to the skidway or landing; -- called also travois road or travoy road.
• A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun US, lumbering A rough cleared right of way with logs embedded cross-wise on which logs being harvested would slide or be dragged or skidded.
• noun US, lumbering Streets with facilities suitable for the recreational needs of lumberjacks.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauled
• noun the district of a town frequented by loggers