The maps are nicely designed and provide a lot of details, including trails and waypoints that can be used to automatically plan on-trail routes.
There's a lot of prime hiking to be done in all the national forests, parks, and other public lands in this huge area, so this is a potentially useful and maybe indispensable resource for anyone planning and executing on- or off-trail trips in the region.
Here is the blurry image from Garmin's web site: Stray beyond those boundaries and you are in no-man's-land. It covers the "four corners" southwestern states: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. 24K Southwest map set, on a fingernail-sized micro SD card.
#Garmin topo us 24k review full#
But this year, with the prospect of living a full year in the Southwest, I decided to spring for the full monty, Garmin's Topo U.S. It showed many of the trails we wanted to use, but did not include trails as a separate layer for routing so I had to draw in our planned route, some of which was off trail anyway, by hand. When I was planning our trip in the Wind Rivers in '16, I choked on the price of a full Garmin map set and settled for a free topo map set that I found online. More on that in a minute, but this is a review of one of the map sets for Garmin devices.
#Garmin topo us 24k review software#
It took Garmin years to get around to fulfilling promises to supply versions of it software for Macs, and the Basecamp software used for viewing and planning is klunky and non-intuitive, for me at least, especially when it comes to planning routes on existing roads and trails. I am on my third Garmin GPS, an eTrex 30c, which is at least hanging in there for a lot longer than the last one did. I've been a somewhat grumpy Garmin customer for many years now.
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