Best GPS Devices for Roads

however, i hit the detour button and it plotted the exact same route i drive every day which is all backroads.

second, there was a time when it had me traveling a lot of back roads and ended up putting on a road that i had crossed over about 10 minutes before.

we use it on "back road" trips, in conjunction with detailed paper maps.

then we realised that we need to be able to create custom routes (ie: using back roads that my wife prefers because it's "prettier").

i travel for work and go to a lot of back road areas where i would have been hopelessly lost with a map or written directions.

a small hole in my car's radiator on a deserted strip of back road out of state brought my car to a stop as the sun was going down.

* gps should give you an option of highway or back roads - instead it gives shortest and fastest.

we ended up on some back roads in georgia on our way to hilton head.

after 8,000 miles logged (old street, new streets, back roads, major highways), i can say that our cross country trip would not have been the same without having our trusted garmin gps.

other thoughts: i recently took a trip to helen, ga and i used the gps going from fl thru the back roads.

3) the unit took us thought hundreds of miles of back roads, when there was an interstate that would have been better,.

several times now, my nuvi has sent me on very pleasant and scenic, twisty-turny 2-lane back roads through the northern california foothills, when the freeway would have added perhaps 5 miles to the

all the back roads were flooded...

several times now, my nuvi has sent me on very pleasant and scenic, twisty-turny 2-lane back roads through the northern california foothills, when the freeway would have added perhaps 5 miles to the

3) the unit took us thought hundreds of miles of back roads, when there was an interstate that would have been better,.

after 8,000 miles logged (old street, new streets, back roads, major highways), i can say that our cross country trip would not have been the same without having our trusted garmin gps.