This appeal challenges the propriety of a summary judgment in favor of a landowner in a premises liability case. We conclude that plaintiff’s decedent was an uninvited licensee and that the landowner did not breach a duty of care by failing to warn of an obvious danger. Accordingly, we affirm.
The factual background of this case begins in 1967 when James Wilkinson purchased a strip of land which bordered the northern edge of his property in western Palm Beach County. The warranty deed contained the following provision:
The grantor reserves unto herself, her heirs, administrators, successors and assigns forever a right of ingress and egress for vehicular and pedestrian traffic over the north 20 feet of the above described lands, but with no duty of the grantee to maintain such road as may exist thereon.
The above easement consisted of a “dike road” which ran from east to west across the newly-acquired property. As suggested by its name, it served a dual function. As a dike it separated water and drainage systems in one farm from another. As a roadway it served as a connecting link to the public highway. The dike was composed of mud scooped out of the canal, piled into a mound and packed to form a levee. Deep canals bounded it to the north and south. The banks of the dike were steep, but not vertical. The top had been flattened to serve as a roadway and measured approximately eighteen to nineteen feet in width. It was about twelve feet from the road surface to the canal waters below.
In 1976, Harold Gilbert owned the easement and the land east of Wilkinson’s. Gilbert’s land contained a rock pit from which *1042shell rock was extracted by the Rubin Construction Company. Apparently, a major road construction project was in the offing and Rubin hoped to supply all of the shell rock.- In the same vein, a trucker by the name of Ramon Capote hoped to obtain the contract to haul shell rock from Gilbert’s rock pit to the road construction site. Since this plan would necessitate heavy volume truck traffic over the dike road, Rubin and Capote agreed to resurface the dike road with a layer of shell rock.
On March 11, 1976, David Mí riaca was working as a truck driver for Ramon Capote. Mariaca’s job was to haul shell rock from Gilbert’s rock pit to a point on the road where a bulldozer waited to spread the shell rock. The dumping procedure called for the trucks to drive around the bulldozer, dump the shell rock on the roadway and then proceed west on the dike road. Since the roadway was about eighteen feet wide and the bulldozer blade was ten feet wide and the trucks were eight feet wide, passing was a precarious maneuver which demanded extreme caution. To facilitate the procedure, the bulldozer would pull to the south side of the road and allow the left end of the blade to hang over the bank. This gave the trucks about two feet of clearance.
On Mariaca’s third approach of the day, approximately forty-four feet from the rear of the bulldozer, his fully loaded truck went over the edge of the dike road and landed upside down in the canal. Mariaca drowned. State troopers investigating the accident determined that about two feet of the roadway at the edge had pjven way under the weight of the loaded truck.
Zipkin, as the representative of Mariaca’s estate and on behalf of his wife and children, filed suit against a number of individuals including Wilkinson and hi¡¡ farming corporation. Zipkin alleged that Wilkinson and his corporation were negligent (a) in failing to maintain the dike road, and (b) in failing to warn plaintiff’s decedent of latent defects in the road. Wilkinson and his corporation moved for summary judgment. The trial court granted the motion and this .appeal ensued.
At the outset we reject Wilkinson’s contention that the legal effect of the easement is to relieve him of all duty to third parties. In essence, he argues that his inability to exclude individuals from the easement absolves him of any duty of care. Perhaps if this were true, his argument would have merit. See, e.g., Levy v. Kimball, 50 Hawaii 497, 443 P.2d 142 (1968). In fact, however, Wilkinson’s premise is incorrect. It is a basic tenet of real property law that “(t)he possessor of land subject to an easement created by conveyance is privileged to make such uses of the servient tenement as are not inconsistent with the provisions of the creating conveyance.” Restatement (Second) of Property, § 486 (1976); see also 25 Am.Jur.2d Easements and Licenses, § 89 (1966). Inasmuch as the easement in this case merely permits ingress and egress to Gilbert’s property, Wilkinson retains some authority over the road. He may use it himself and may permit others to use it so long as the use does not impede the right of ingress and egress. For example, Wilkinson might permit and even charge others to fish from the sides of the dike road. If he did so, it would be untenable to suggest that the existence of the easement would act to relieve Wilkinson of the normal duty of care owed to business invitees and invited licensees. Consequently, we hold that the easement in this case does not preclude consideration of the landowner’s duty to third parties. At the same time, we hold the easement is a particularly relevant factor in determining the entrant’s status vis-a-vis the landowner.1
Florida classifies entrants onto the land of another into the following three *1043categories: (1) trespassers,2 (2) uninvited licensees,3 and (3) invited licensees and. invitees.4 Wood v. Camp, 284 So.2d 691 (Fla. 1973). The status of the entrant and the corresponding duty owed by the landowner must be gleaned from the relationship between the two. “[I]t is the relationship established between persons which must be the criterion for the duty owed.” Id. at 694. Moreover, where the facts are not in dispute, it is appropriate for the court to fix the status of the entrant as a matter of law. Id. at 696.
In the ease at bar, the easement guarantees a right of ingress and egress to the easement owner, his invitees, and his licensees. Additionally, if places the responsibility for repair squarely on the shoulders of the easement owner.5 These factors are significant to the extent that they bear on the question of whether Wilkinson expressly or impliedly invited Mariaca onto the premises or whether Mariaca’s activity amounted to a business dealing with Wilkinson. The undisputed evidence in the record reveals that the answer to both questions is “no.” Although Wilkinson knew the road was being repaired, he had no involvement in the project. On the other hand, it is also undisputed that Gilbert, the easement owner, had an agreement with Rubin Construction Company for the sale of shell rock. Given these facts, it is inconceivable that Rubin’s resurfacing of the road could be construed as a business deal with Wilkinson. Thus, Mariaca was not Wilkinson’s invitee, nor was he a trespasser. Therefore we hold that he occupied the status of an uninvited licensee vis-á-vis Wilkinson, the landowner.6
*1044The duty owed by a landowr er to an uninvited licensee has been stated as follows:
The duty owed to a licensee is to refrain from wanton negligence or wilful misconduct which would injure him, :o refrain from intentionally exposing him to danger and to warn him of a defect or condition known to the landowner to be dangerous when such danger is not open to ordinary observation by the licensee.
Hall v. Holton, 330 So.2d 81 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976), cert. denied, 348 So.2d 948 (Fla.1977).
Focusing on the duty to warn, it is now generally held that a landowner must exercise reasonable care to warn uninvited licensees of all hidden perils which are unknown to the licensee but are known to the landowner. A hidden danger or peril is nothing more than an unreasonably dangerous condition that an uninvited licensee could not reasonably be expected to discover or appreciate. The landowner, however, has no duty to warn of conditions which a reasonable person would observe and avoid through the ordinary use of their senses. In short, superior knowledge of the danger is essential before there is a duty to warn. Vermont Mutual Insurance Co. v. Conway, 358 So.2d 123 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978); Rice v. Florida Power and Light Co., 363 So.2d 834 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978), cert. denied., 373 So.2d 460 (Fla.1979).
Turning again to the case at bar, it is readily apparent that the cave-in of the road’s edge beneath the weight of a fully loaded truck did not constitute a hidden peril. The composition of the road’s surface, the angle of the bank, and the lack of guard rails were obvious for all to observe. Wilkinson’s admission at deposition that a muck-based road would come apart does not constitute superior knowledge. The dangers inherent in driving too close to the edge of a road are within the realm of common experience. Moreover, in this case we have the added factors of a fully loaded truck nearing the side of a sharply inclined bank. The dangers were open and readily comprehensible. Consequently, based on the undisputed facts, we hold that the condition here did not constitute a hidden peril sufficient to impose a duty to warn. Thus, we conclude that the trial court was correct in granting the motion for summary judgment and in assessing costs against the plaintiff. The judgment is AFFIRMED.
LETTS, C. J., concurs.
ANSTEAD, J., dissents with opinion.