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1 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for BACK ROADS
Garmin nuvi® 255W GPS Receiver
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$293.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i love the detour feature, it saved me a ton of time when i heard there was an accident on the highway and took back roads that i would have never known existed!
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars 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.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars however, i hit the detour button and it plotted the exact same route i drive every day which is all backroads.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars 1.garmin has to find a way for me to preview my journey because when i travel long distances the gps directs me to back roads instead of the main highway.i have had to reroute repeatedly to get
  5. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars my old magellan would have re-routed me and i would have taken my chances with back roads rather than wasting gas and time in standstill traffic.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Good Display, Great Map Quality, Designation: Automobile
2 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for BACK ROADS
Garmin Nuvi 760 (760T) Car GPS Receiver
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$353.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars have played around with it, but have not been able to figure out how to have it give me mostly highway routes, still wants to take me back roads.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars * gps should give you an option of highway or back roads - instead it gives shortest and fastest.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars on multiple occasions (and in separate areas) it took us on some crazy backroads and in one particularly infuriating instance we were directed to a dead end street.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars a bit dismayed that the gps tried to put me on toll roads rather than take back roads that would
  5. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars -the nav system sometimes takes you on longer routes (this was evident when i knew where i was going but garmin was telling me to take back roads most of the time vs a major highway...this shouldn't
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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Accuracy, Excellent Display, Designation: Automobile
3 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for BACK ROADS
Garmin nuvi® 880 GPS Receiver
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$800.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars routing is precise and fast; but if you're familiar with an area, it may not select your favorite back roads.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars since returning to miami i have found her routing to be somewhat point-to-point instead of the "back roads" that i tend to use from decades of driving experience here, making me wish she had some
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Positives: Great Map Quality, Easy To Use, Good Accuracy, Designation: Automobile
4 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for BACK ROADS
Garmin nuvi 260W Car GPS Receiver
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$233.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars it has been very helpful (especially last weekend, heading up north to the cabin for memorial day weekend....took lots of backroads to avoid heavy traffic on the freeway.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars you have to go into the main setting and change it from highway to back roads.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars it took us 87 miles on back roads to our destination, avoiding tolls and traffic, within our time constraints.pronunciation of some roads inacurate, but overall does the job i wanted to acheive.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars tried to take us off the state highway and over backroads in the mountains of vermont -- the shortest route!
  5. from www.amazon.com
    1.0 Star however, maps didn't work - only used back roads, not highways.
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Positives: Good Display, Easy To Use, Excellent Map Quality, Form Factor: Fixed
5 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for BACK ROADS
Garmin nüvi 265WT GPS Receiver
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$290.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from Brian, www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars seems like the two route options (fastest or quickest)are always taking me onto back roads when an interstate would actually be quicker.bluetooth - i wanted it to pull the addresses from my phone
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars it always seems to want me to go back roads no matter what setting i put it on.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars it takes you through side streets and back roads with lots of stop signs.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    1.0 Star it took me through county routes and back roads.
  5. from Arnie, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars other thoughts: i recently took a trip to helen, ga and i used the gps going from fl thru the back roads.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Display, Excellent Map Quality, Designation: Automobile
 
Garmin Nuvi 265W GPS Receiver
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$353.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars it always seems to want me to go back roads no matter what setting i put it on.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    2.0 Stars it takes you through side streets and back roads with lots of stop signs.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    1.0 Star it took me through county routes and back roads.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars 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.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars 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
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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Display, Great Map Quality, Form Factor: Fixed
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