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Anyone have a secret they want to share for route planning? I'm trying to plan some trips off the interstates and having some problems.
I'm not ready to spring the cash for the Garmin Zumo 550 (but I have been lusting after it for a while). The mapping websites that I've seen don't avoid the interstates for trips longer than 250 miles.
What am I missing?
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I use google maps because you can drag the route around any which way you like. Just grab the line and drag it to somewhere else.
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Google maps will avoid the slab if you check the "avoid highways" button once you get to the direction page.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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As usual, Ed is right. Use mapquest or similar and request no slabs.
SteveB
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Google Map or Google Earth are the best to use.
Now, shouldn't this Post be in the Lounge?...
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Quote:
Now, shouldn't this Post be in the Lounge?...
Yep..
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Should be Riding
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google maps. visitors centers at the state line. stair steps.
roll and go. just aim your sickle the direction to want to travel. If time is a constraint buy a cage.
seriously all roads have parallel roads. Some dead end some don't. Buy maps or get the englishyankee ones at the state lines. Back roads are not the default on google maps. Yoou will not average 60 mph but you will live three times for every road you roll that is not on AAA maps...
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As usual, Ed is right. Use mapquest or similar and request no slabs.
SteveB
Truthfully, I stumbled into that check box by accident while trying to adjust a route. As my Granddaddy used to say, "Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while" 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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I like to use this reference... http://www.motorcycleroads.us/
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Check Pants
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I use Microsoft Streets and Trips...non GPS version.
Itll let you plan a route and you can move routes by dragging to roads, it asignes waypoints and is pretty accurate with time and very accurate with distance.
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