diff --git a/src/entities/Terrain.js b/src/entities/Terrain.js
index 75dca85..175026c 100644
--- a/src/entities/Terrain.js
+++ b/src/entities/Terrain.js
@@ -1,5 +1,41 @@
 import { TERRAIN_DEPTH, WORLD_SCALE } from '../config.js';
 
+// Palette picked to match assets/backgrounds/bg_mid.png and bg_near.png's
+// painterly foliage (deep leaf greens, an olive/yellow-green highlight, warm
+// rust accents on a few "turning" leaves) so the drivable ground reads as
+// the same world as the parallax behind it, with a dirt-road strip riding
+// right on the surface where the bus actually touches down.
+const COLORS = {
+  roadTop: 0xa5814f,
+  roadEdge: 0x5c4128,
+  roadPebble: 0x50381f,
+  roadHighlight: 0xc9a56d,
+  subsoil: 0x3f5c28,
+  foliageMid: 0x36531f,
+  foliageDeep: 0x223a15,
+  tufts: [0x4a7a2e, 0x6fa23f, 0x9bbf4a, 0x8a5a3a],
+};
+
+// How deep (from the surface line, straight down) each visual layer reaches
+// - not the physics depth (TERRAIN_DEPTH, which just needs to be deep
+// enough nothing ever tunnels through the bottom). Purely a "how many
+// pixels of dirt before it turns into foliage" tuning knob.
+const ROAD_DEPTH = 22 * WORLD_SCALE;
+const SUBSOIL_DEPTH = ROAD_DEPTH + 46 * WORLD_SCALE;
+const MID_FOLIAGE_DEPTH = TERRAIN_DEPTH * 0.55;
+
+// Deterministic hash-based PRNG (mulberry32-style mix) instead of
+// Math.random(), so the road's pebble scatter and the grass tufts look the
+// same every time a level is (re)built - a fresh Math.random seed every
+// retry would make the ground visibly "shuffle" between attempts at the
+// same spot, which reads as a bug even though it's purely decorative.
+function hashRandom(seed) {
+  let t = (seed ^ 0x6d2b79f5) >>> 0;
+  t = Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 15), t | 1);
+  t ^= t + Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 7), t | 61);
+  return ((t ^ (t >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296;
+}
+
 // Ground is stored as left-to-right surface polylines (easy to hand-author),
 // each converted into a chain of angled static rectangle bodies extruded
 // downward - simpler and more robust than concave polygon decomposition.
@@ -55,21 +91,120 @@ export default class Terrain {
     this.bodies.push(body);
   }
 
-  _drawSegment(points) {
+  // Fills the ribbon bounded above by the surface polyline and below by
+  // that same polyline shifted straight down by `depth` AT EVERY POINT (not
+  // just its two ends - a segment can run for thousands of units and climb
+  // or drop a lot along the way, so a bottom edge built from only the first
+  // and last point would just be one long straight diagonal across the
+  // whole thing, nowhere near a constant `depth` below the actual terrain
+  // in between). Layers are drawn deepest-first in _drawSegment, each
+  // shallower fill simply capping the top portion of the previous one - a
+  // cheap way to get bands that follow the terrain's contour without
+  // computing separate band-only polygons.
+  _fillFromTop(points, depth, color) {
     const g = this.graphics;
-    g.fillStyle(0x3c8f3c, 1);
+    g.fillStyle(color, 1);
     g.beginPath();
-    g.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y + TERRAIN_DEPTH);
+    g.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
     for (const p of points) g.lineTo(p.x, p.y);
-    const last = points[points.length - 1];
-    g.lineTo(last.x, last.y + TERRAIN_DEPTH);
+    for (let i = points.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) g.lineTo(points[i].x, points[i].y + depth);
     g.closePath();
     g.fillPath();
+  }
 
-    g.lineStyle(4 * WORLD_SCALE, 0x2c6e2c, 1);
+  _drawSegment(points) {
+    this._fillFromTop(points, TERRAIN_DEPTH, COLORS.foliageDeep);
+    this._fillFromTop(points, MID_FOLIAGE_DEPTH, COLORS.foliageMid);
+    this._fillFromTop(points, SUBSOIL_DEPTH, COLORS.subsoil);
+    this._fillFromTop(points, ROAD_DEPTH, COLORS.roadTop);
+
+    this._drawRoadTexture(points);
+
+    const g = this.graphics;
+    g.lineStyle(4 * WORLD_SCALE, COLORS.roadEdge, 1);
     g.beginPath();
     g.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
     for (const p of points) g.lineTo(p.x, p.y);
     g.strokePath();
+
+    this._drawFoliageTufts(points);
+  }
+
+  // Scatters small pebble/rut flecks across the dirt band so it doesn't
+  // read as a flat color fill - sampled a few times per segment rather
+  // than per original point (point spacing depends on the level/editor's
+  // width settings, so this keeps texture density roughly constant
+  // regardless of how the terrain was authored).
+  _drawRoadTexture(points) {
+    const g = this.graphics;
+    for (let i = 0; i < points.length - 1; i++) {
+      const a = points[i];
+      const b = points[i + 1];
+      const segLen = Math.hypot(b.x - a.x, b.y - a.y);
+      if (segLen < 1) continue;
+
+      const count = Math.max(1, Math.round(segLen / (26 * WORLD_SCALE)));
+      for (let j = 0; j < count; j++) {
+        const seed = Math.round(a.x) * 97 + i * 131 + j * 17;
+        const t = (j + 0.5) / count;
+        const px = a.x + (b.x - a.x) * t + (hashRandom(seed) - 0.5) * 16 * WORLD_SCALE;
+        const py = a.y + (b.y - a.y) * t + (0.25 + hashRandom(seed + 1) * 0.65) * ROAD_DEPTH;
+
+        const isHighlight = hashRandom(seed + 2) > 0.55;
+        const radius = (1.3 + hashRandom(seed + 3) * 1.5) * WORLD_SCALE;
+        g.fillStyle(isHighlight ? COLORS.roadHighlight : COLORS.roadPebble, isHighlight ? 0.5 : 0.45);
+        g.fillCircle(px, py, radius);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Sparse little grass/leaf blades poking up right at the road's edge,
+  // leaned and colored from the bg_mid/bg_near palette - breaks up the
+  // otherwise perfectly straight edge line and is what actually reads as
+  // "foliage" rather than just a flat green fill underneath.
+  _drawFoliageTufts(points) {
+    const g = this.graphics;
+    const palette = COLORS.tufts;
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < points.length - 1; i++) {
+      const a = points[i];
+      const b = points[i + 1];
+      const segLen = Math.hypot(b.x - a.x, b.y - a.y);
+      if (segLen < 1) continue;
+
+      const seed0 = Math.round(a.x) * 53 + i * 197;
+      if (hashRandom(seed0) > 0.4) continue; // keep tufts sparse, not on every segment
+
+      const dirX = (b.x - a.x) / segLen;
+      const dirY = (b.y - a.y) / segLen;
+      // Perpendicular to the segment, rotated so it points away from the
+      // fill (i.e. "up" relative to the local slope, not world-up).
+      const nx = dirY;
+      const ny = -dirX;
+
+      const t = 0.3 + hashRandom(seed0 + 1) * 0.4;
+      const baseX = a.x + (b.x - a.x) * t;
+      const baseY = a.y + (b.y - a.y) * t;
+
+      const bladeCount = 3 + Math.floor(hashRandom(seed0 + 2) * 3);
+      for (let k = 0; k < bladeCount; k++) {
+        const seed = seed0 + k * 11 + 3;
+        const spread = (hashRandom(seed) - 0.5) * 14 * WORLD_SCALE;
+        const height = (7 + hashRandom(seed + 1) * 11) * WORLD_SCALE;
+        const lean = (hashRandom(seed + 2) - 0.5) * 6 * WORLD_SCALE;
+        const color = palette[Math.floor(hashRandom(seed + 3) * palette.length)];
+
+        const rootX = baseX + dirX * spread;
+        const rootY = baseY + dirY * spread;
+        const tipX = rootX + nx * height + lean;
+        const tipY = rootY + ny * height;
+
+        g.lineStyle(2.4 * WORLD_SCALE, color, 0.9);
+        g.beginPath();
+        g.moveTo(rootX, rootY);
+        g.lineTo(tipX, tipY);
+        g.strokePath();
+      }
+    }
   }
 }