While the dirt road off the Old Pacific Highway at Wootton leads to the historical trestle bridge from the light railway (which was built in 1890 to cart timber from the forests to the Coolongolook River and to Mayers Point on Myall Lake) residents claim the road never gets graded.

"I can recall only one occasion in 16 years when a grader was used to improve our road frontage," John Smith said.

"Council only grades the first one and a half kilometres of Squires Rd to Possum Pie Rd from there the road goes another 4.5km into the forest."

Mr Smith is adamant that the road should be fully graded as it provides access to popular tourist attractions, in addition to three properties and is dangerous in its current state.

"There are a couple of inclines past our place where my car, a Toyota Camry, bottoms out.

"You have got to negotiate it very carefully. Anyone who is not familiar with the road and travelling at speed is in trouble.

"The rain makes it even worse. The rain has cut into it and made gutters in the middle of the road.

"It is really rocky.

"The road needs to be excavated and leveled off."

But it seems unlikely the Squires Rd residents will get their wish.

"It is not on our maintenance schedule," Great Lakes Council's director of engineering Ron Hartley said.

"We maintain 1.7 kilometres of Squires Rd. We have never in recent memory maintained the next section of road."

Mr Hartley said the engineering department did request extra funding in council's budget the year before last to continue the maintenance of Squires Rd, but was unsuccessful.

Therein it seems lies the problem for council, a matter of economics.

"Council has got hundreds of roads we don't maintain and have historically not maintained," Mr Hartley said.

"Until we get an increase in the road maintenance budget we have got to prioritise which roads we maintain."