"I was told". With the advent of social media lots of unsupported comments get passed on as fact. A ROW is typically granted by a landowner for a specific use. Providing public access is typically not one of them. As such the landowner can choose to allow the public access or not. The way most people treat public accesses by leaving trash, tearing up the property, dumping, vandalism, etc. I can completely understand why landowners close the access points. The State would be better off buying the property to allow for public access.