Road Near Hunting Camp in "The Old People" (Location)

The road into the big woods presumably branches off the northwest road, but the story isn't explicit about that. What it does describe very vividly is the place at which this road enters the woods, when the hunters cross a "line as sharp as the demarcation of a doored wall" (168). On one side of this door, the "skeleton cotton- and corn-fields," "houses, barns, fences" of Yoknapatawpha - on the other, the "wilderness," "tremendous and still and seemingly impenetrable" (168).