This is a transcontinental Adventure and Dual Sport route from near San Diego California to Tybee Island Georgia. Ride at your own risk. This segment goes from the southern end of the Continental Divide Ride at Silver City New Mexico to the Pacific Crest Quest near San Deigo. Here is a link to the Midwest section of this route - http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/the-southern-route-midwest.1070373/ The section of this route to the east of here is The Southern Route - Rockies - http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1068505 To the west of here I connect to the Pacific Crest Quest - http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111885 As far as I know all roads are legal Public roads - Forest Service, county, state,etc. Off pavement as much as possible. Here is the Garmin .gdb file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0pcsyg5lwmvnwp/SR west release.gdb?dl=0 Here is a standard GPX file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldw1868r99rby58/SR west release.gpx?dl=0 Here is the documentation file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/3u3g3kocdqzza34/SR west release.doc?dl=0 Note - the tracks are raw tracks containing LOTS of track points. You may well have to filter these tracks down for some units.
Here are some pictures of the main route, going east to west. Day 1, Silver City NM to Willcox, AZ Entering Gila NF Heading to Arizona South of San Simon North of San Simon Gold Hill Fort Bowie Day 2, Willcox AZ to Globe AZ West from Willcox Approaching San Pedro river North up the wash Heading toward Butterfly Peak North of Oracle Heading toward Kelvin Day 3, Globe AZ to Pine AZ Crossing the Salt river North toward Young Heading toward the Mogollon Rim Western Mogollon Rim Mogollon Rim Overlook SE Mogollon Rim Overlook South Day 4, Pine AZ to Wickenburg AZ West of Camp Verde Crown King South of Crown King Near Ft Misery Near Buckhorn Coming into Wickenburg Day 5, Wickenburg AZ to Quartzsite AZ SW of Wickenburg Short cutting a corner Heading toward KOFA KOFA Cabin In KOFA Leaving KOFA Day 6, Quartzsite AZ to PCQ near Ocotillo Wells Jeeps trail out of Quartzsite Along the Colorado river Crossing the Colorado Bradshaw Trail Red Canyon Heading toward Ocotillo Wells Pacific Crest Quest intersection Alternate Start from Hichita NM Heading into the mountains Near Portal AZ Coming out of the mountains
I'm in the process of extending the route... to the East Coast!!! Got it mapped, start the scouting next week. Should have most of it done by spring, may need some tracklogs for the western most stuff. I know some of the options I want to do in New Mexico will still be snowed in so probably won't be able to get tracks for them. One of the options for the main route should be OK though, if I make it that far! Lots of riding to do!!!
hello. ive been trying to load this route onto my garmin78. the section from san diego to new mexico is not showing up on my unit. the rest is however. any ideas im using basecamp
The 78, by default, turns all tracks display off when you load them. You have to turn each individual track on to display on the map.
I would be happy to provide tracks. I looked at Mr Travelers tracks and they look like a good route to me. There was some stuff in the eastern part of the state where I don't have much experience - too much private land and too flat. Let me know if there is any specific area you might want tracks for.
It's pretty good at the moment... but you always kinda want to tweek sections. Got everything I need for now, and don't know when I'll get back out that way. One of these days I'm gonna have to get a job and go back to work, in the mean time I've got to start cutting back, after all I've been on vacation 3 1/2 years! Got everything in the can, just gotta get some pictures sorted so I can post the eastern end. It'll be a subset of my TET-S.
thanks a bunch northern. that was spot on about the garmin 78........i will be riding the southern route back east. i live in maryland. after alabam i will try to figure a route back home. ill take notes along the way. If there are any specific sections you would like feedback on just let m know and ill see what i can do.
Minor update to the GDB and GPX files. I've added waypoints for the hot springs near the route based upon USGS information. The waypoints are of the form HSxxxx xxxF - meaning (Hot Spring) (arbitrary number from 1 to 1702) (water temp in Fahrenheit). Don't know if any individual hot spring is public or private, please observe posted signs and watch out for water temperature. Use at your own risk.
Dropbox changed things and broke my links to everything. I'm made new links to the DOC, GPX, and GDB files. Trying to figure out how to fix the pictures.
