There is always the option of doing a chip seal (also called tar and chip) on the drive. It offers a gravel surface, but there is a layer of hot asphalt oil sprayed down and the a layer of small aggregate laid over the top. A pneumatic tire roller goes over the finished job and presses the aggregate in to the tar layer. it looks like a gravel drive, doesn't require a seal job every few year like asphalt. And provides a good traction surface in winter. Basically solving a lot of problems, at the lowest cost of any kind of paving job and easiest and cheapest to maintain. Typically, a complete long drive can be done in one day, and ready to drive on the next day. Water runs off and doesn't take the rock with it. surface underneath stays dry so it doesn't soften up in spring melt or heavy rain weather. Same thing that many rural counties do to county roads instead of doing a full asphalt or concrete paving job. They way they used to do major roads back in the Pre-WWII days. You might have seen a movie or two where a chain gang was spreading fine gravel over a new laid layer of sprayed asphalt oil on a road. Same thing. Many rural counties still do it this way, but don't use chain gangs but spreading equipment.
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