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Hiking Trails.. Where can I find downloadable routes of trails.


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If you do a find for 'trails download' (or some similar variation) you may find quite a few matches that may or may not get listed here again... depending on where you are, there may be some great downloads

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Boy, let me know if you find it. I was out caching on Friday at Ft. Ord, CA (abandoned by the Army a few years ago, now BLM) and was trying to navigate off my old Topo CD stuff. Problem is that so many trails have been constructed since the CD came out that it was getting hard to know where the trails went.

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National Geographic has downloadable routes for their Topo! maps. I don't know if they can be downloaded to a GPS though. I haven't tried.

 

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NG Topo has wonderful trails already tracked for you on their we page. Of course you have to have their Topo program to displaye the track and convert it to a route to load it into your GPS.

 

If you are downloading their trails from areas that you do not have their topo for, you can still convert it to a route and download it into you GPS as a route and then into your PC for display on your GPS mapping program. In this latter case, you don't get all the features of NG but you can still create the routes for you GPS. But you need at least one of NG Topo programs.

 

ALan

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If you have a specific area in mind, you can try posting the question in the forum for your region... I found a lot of trail maps on mountain biking websites in my area. If you're in the Seattle area, I may still have some links.

 

Also, try a search for the specicfic location with "Trail map" tacked on (e.g. "Banner Forest Trail Map") on Google http://www.google.com

 

That was actually how I found GeoCaching!

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If I'm looking for trail heads or trails I usually use USAphotomaps, I know it is a little outdated and won't have new trails but it works very well for me, especially when I download the cache locations. then I have an idea of where I want to start the cache hunt.

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