Advice on Routes for Touring the West Coast

[Silvermouse82]

Here's a brilliant website for mapping places and giving directions:

Kind regards,
K

[Mark Sedenquist]

Here's a brilliant website for mapping places and giving directions:

Well... mapquest has its fans -- but we are not in that camp -- As a rule, this service has far more problems than any of its competitors. Here are the services we have rated and tested.

Mark

[Midwest Michael]

I probably use Mapquest more than the others these days, although its certainly not perfect.

Google just added a new feature that I really like: You can click on any point on your route, and manually drag your path onto another road. So for example, if you are going to go from Denver to San Francisco, it will come up with a route along I-80, but you could pull your route down and get the mileage estimate for using US-50 instead.

The downside is that it is still google, and it is, in my opinion, the least user friendly when it comes to plotting your original points.

[boilrdog]

after you see Las Vegas take highway 93 East and tour hoover dam then continue on 93 to the Dolan Springs turnoff and follow signs to Grand Canyon West Skywalk !

[glc]

A caveat - the road to the Skywalk is not paved and is in lousy condition. It's not part of the national park, it's on Indian reservation land.

[Southwest Dave]

And the actual trip took place over 3 years ago !

[glc]

Yep, but it's still a sticky so it's fair game for comments!

[Mark Sedenquist]

Not only is this a sticky -- the road is even more beat up than it was three years ago.

mark

[Southwest Dave]

Yep, but it's still a sticky so it's fair game for comments!

An old thread doesn't need to be a "sticky" to add updates, comments or questions, the point being was that the post made previous to yours was offering advice [appreciated] to the OP whose trip is long since done.

[Phyllisc]

Scratch the lake havasu and add Sedona, Arizona, you will love it. Of course you can't miss the California redwoods.