Nuvi 255W/City Navigator and NF Dirt Roads

 

I went up north today (above the Mogollon Rim)to do some sightseeing, fishing, etc., I was pleasantly surprised to see that my Nuvi255W with City Navigator recognized all of the NF Forest roads I was on. Whenever I came to another dirt road, it would show up on the display map. Since the majority of my "offroad" travels are on NF Roads, I think I'm going sell off my Oregon. I even tried it down in the desert area outside of Superior (looking for Mattie Earp's gravesite) and the Nuvi showed the name of the dirt road I was on as well as the icon moving down the road. Pretty cool!

--
OK.....so where the heck am I?

I agree

pkdmslf wrote:

I went up north today (above the Mogollon Rim)to do some sightseeing, fishing, etc., I was pleasantly surprised to see that my Nuvi255W with City Navigator recognized all of the NF Forest roads I was on. Whenever I came to another dirt road, it would show up on the display map. Since the majority of my "offroad" travels are on NF Roads, I think I'm going sell off my Oregon. I even tried it down in the desert area outside of Superior (looking for Mattie Earp's gravesite) and the Nuvi showed the name of the dirt road I was on as well as the icon moving down the road. Pretty cool!

Yup, I travel forest roads in AZ often and am amazed at how well City Navigator covers these dirt/rock/mud FS roads. I also have the free Arizona Topo

http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/1/

on an SD card in the nuvi and can switch to the detailed topo for additional info. These two nuvi maps, plus my paper Forest Map, keep me surprisingly happy. It's also fun to later download the tracks from the nuvi or other Garmin GPS to my computer's Mapsource which also has City Navigator and AZ Topo (and Garmin's Topo USA) to see where I've been, especially after swapping to Google Earth view.

Of course, once I tried to have City Navigator route me from Flagstaff to the trailhead for Vultee Arch near Sedona and Karen (nuvi's voice, of course) suggested I drive over a 1000-foot roadless cliff--Bad Karen! The mapping is amazing but be careful routing a trip on FS roads with City Navigator or anything else. There are definitely times that I find City Navigator to have better mapping than my official USDA FS paper map.

Download the Tracks?

CraigW wrote:

It's also fun to later download the tracks from the nuvi or other Garmin GPS to my computer's Mapsource which also has City Navigator and AZ Topo (and Garmin's Topo USA) to see where I've been, especially after swapping to Google Earth view.

Can you help a newbie through the process? I'll be doing it witha 265WT.