Road

Dirt Paths appear in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, usually acting as a sort of guidance to get from one place to another. In Zelda II, if you stray off of the dirt path, enemy silhouettes will appear and make chase. If you are on the dirt path when they catch you, there will be no enemies, just a desert-like backround. So the safest way to go in this game is a dirt path.