What does the speaker mean by 'fair' in the first line?

The word “fair” comes at the beginning of the second stanza of “The Road Not Taken.” In the first stanza, the narrator sees two roads or paths ahead. He’s deciding which one to take. He looks down the length of the one that has been used more often, “Then took the other, just as fair.” Here the word means attractive, beautiful, nice, and maybe even favorable or promising. Although we get the impression that one of the roads is well worn and the other one has grass growing over it in neglect, the narrator spends the second stanza and half of the third assuring us (or himself) that in reality, the two routes are equal in appearance and in sustained foot traffic. His use of the word “fair” plays into this façade, since it can also mean average or impartial.