The correct answer is D) it was a trail that Americans used when traveling west to settle the frontier.
The statement that best describes the Wilderness Road in the late 1700s is "it was a trail that Americans used when traveling west to settle the frontier."
During the time where people traveled west to settle in those new territories, the Wilderness Road served as the pathway for almost 300 000 settlers that traveled the road to get to their new destination. It was the famous explorer Daniel Boone who established in Boonesboro, Kentucky or the Transylvania colony.