Advisory at mile 76, the route enters hofmann forest which is private property. If you take a wrong turn, the gps route will recalculate your path based on your current location. However i took the route from new york down through pennsylvania and found absolutely brilliant, taking you right down the spine of. Trans america trail 5184 mile dual sport ride ride across the usa from coast to coast. The trans america trail is designed to be a self guided adventure with the use of a custom gps card. Below is a summary of the two primary transamerica trail gps and map vendors. Maybe you want to edit them and download them to your gps yourself. Turn on the gps and zoom out to about 50 or 30 miles. At that time, the organization was called bikecentennial, a name many oldtimers still associate with the transam trail. The transamerica trail is the crosscountry adventure ride of a. Simply download the app, create an account, and then explore journeys that help guide you toward a healthier, wealthier future. Wait for the gps to refresh its screen as they can be slow.
And just like the tcat, transcanada highway or many other long routes it can be broken. If you have questions you want answered, you could leave them in the comments. Route for the 2015 trans am bike race, as downloaded from on 20150514 4178. This thread is for discussing how to set up your own gps information for your tat ride transamerica trail. Also consider that the maps are 11x17 format right now. Trans america trail compairson gpskevin adventure rides. Three guarantees, one rider with gps,sm you can address common retirement concerns like outliving. The transamerica bicycle trail was originally created in 1976 as a route across the country in honor of americas 200th birthday. Tat2016 post 21 wednesday 2 march 2016 my blog posts will start to be more often now that we are about to start leg 1. The transamerica trail facebook page is for dualsport motorcyclists who are planning to ride or have ridden the transamerica. The transamerica trail, or tat for short, is a american dual sport dream adv ride across the us of a. For many, this allows them to just experience the american trail without the burden of getting lost.
In may ill be riding across the usa via the transamerica trail. In order to travel through hofmann forest, you must. The transamerica trail is where the adventure begins. Grand canyon red rock vegas scenic adventure bike ride around the grand canyon and utahs red rock canyons. Baja lucky explorer rally adventure bike ride to cabo san lucas. Im concerned about losing that on the second half, but prior conversations with luke have.
It is also known as the transamerica bike route and is contained within the transamerica bicycle trail. Follow warrior expeditions journeys on social media. Use the cursor to pan over to an area where you know the trail should be. Snow conditions get the lastest snow conditions for your favorite trail. If youre tackling the tat with your overlanding rig, then the gps tracks along with maps will help navigate you across the country. As you zoom in you should see the trail as a wide bold blue line made up of arrows. Theres a bit of a rivalry going on between the two transamerica trail gps vendors. In this video update, i talk about the maps ill use to get me from one side of the country to the other. Guaranteed principal solutionsm gpssm rider can help. It should be noted that gps tracks and gps routes are not the same thing. The roll charts and supporting maps put together by sam provide the riders navigational aids. Again, your gps may have a different way to access the maps, but the download does work in all garmin gps units with a card slot. The first half of the journey had no rules, no boundaries, and no committee decisions.
Another transamerica trail gps tracks download cost is the administration of a job of steamjet specifications, of which three died produced in both deaerator and fun. The trans america trail is a mixed dirt route across the usa. There are many types of garmin units, almost all of them can work well. Iconic trails like the pacific crest trail and appalachian trail showcase our countrys natural beauty via hiking. He also provides gps routes which can be reversed allowing me to run the trail in my 20 toyota tundra and 2014 hawk four wheel camper, in the opposite direction, west to east. Transamerica trail advice request mainly about navigation.
Getting caught in the rain after dark in ozark woods with my boys. As much as i would like to see the gps and other downloads on. Digital data for adventure cyclings transamerica trail route is now available. The trans america trail is 4,229 miles long and crosses 10 states from virginia to oregon. Along the transamerica trail roadrunner motorcycle.
Bicycle route 76, was established by the adventure cycling association for the celebration of the u. We collect trail gps data and other trail information from a huge community of riders via the app, and make it available to the rest of the community via the same app. The trail, known as naptnisaqs, or nez perce trail in salish, was used by nez perce in the 18th century, and by the lewis and clark expedition, guided by old toby of the shoshone, on their westward snowbound. With gpss guaranteed minimum accumulation benefi t, gary and barbara are guaranteed that their policy value will be equal to or more than their guaranteed future value gfv at. In our experience it was essential to have the paper maps when we were lost and the gps for daily navigation. The pass is the highest point of the historic lolo trail, between the bitterroot valley in montana and the weippe prairie in idaho. This how to video shows you how to download the tat gps map and instal it into your garmin gps unit. I began the trail along the new mexicooklahoma border near black mesa state park 36. There are a couple of minor reroutes courtesy of basecamp so they dont. As if on cue, my new riding partner, luke swab, rolls into fairplay, co, on a yamaha wr250r, where i am waiting to meet him by the side of the road.
A gps route is for a series of predefined paths that help you navigate to a specific destination. Use these products with the paper maps of the adventure cycling route network to improve your navigation, both on and off the route. The transamerica trail can be navigated using either a combination of maps and rollcharts or gps tracks. For sure the best way to follow the trail is by the use of a garmin gps unit. The gpx data are comprised of route tracks and service points. We will start on the arkansas oklahoma border and will ride 3,452 offroad miles to the oregon coast to port orford. Log in to the app with your username and password to interact with your account anytime, anywhere. Rollcharts include easytouse stepbystep navigation for clockwise travel, while maps provide additional details including a birdseye view of the trail and information about stops along the way like dining, lodging, vehicle maintenance, and more. Bicycle route 76 runs from the midwestern state of missouri to the eastern seaboard state of virginia. This guide to the transamerica trail is brought to you by our friends at midland usa. Bicycle route 76 usbr 76 is a crosscountry bicycle route east of kansas in the united states. The data also includes a gpx file of all the services shown on.
Transamerica trail montanaidaho cycle route routeyou. Tahlequah an indian word meaningtwo is enough you can see our proposed route on the map. As gps units have become both more powerful and easier to use, it has enabled anyone to be able to easily find their way along the trail. The utv trails mobile app is the only gps youll need in your offroad mapping arsenal. Trans america bicycle trail a bike ride in astoria, or. The dyrt pro lets you download maps and campgrounds without cell service. I met a biker who took the original route from north carolina and said it was 90% road and only good once in tennessee. Disclaimer these instructions are based on using garmin mapsource program for file processing the following is my system for utilizing these files. Navigating the transamerica trail by gps motorcyclist.
Im relieved, yet im apprehensive to have a riding partner. For some stretches, the spacing between campsites is over 100 miles, which is outside my comfortable safety margin. When you choose the gps benefit, transamerica uses pam to manage policy value in relation to the guarantees promised under the gps benefit. We used the files in the free app gps hiker to check if we were on the right way. That year over 2000 cyclists rode the entire bikecentennial route, from yorktown, virginia to astoria, oregon. A few days ago i posted pictures of our loading the trailer with our 4 bikes in anticipation of their transport to charleston on 1 march. Transamerica trail advice request mainly about navigation close. Adventure cycling offers gpx data you can download and use on a gps device, smartphone, or tablet. Complete track and way point data for the appalachian trail, pacific crest trail, continental divide trail, john muir trail, colorado trail and long trail is available from within the app at no extra cost. Three guarantees, one living benefi t annuities issued in all states except new york by transamerica life insurance company, cedar rapids, ia and in new york by transamerica financial life insurance. Aca also gives you the possibility to download the gpx files for free and put them on your phone. The other guys bikes are lathered with hightech video cameras, radios and gps plotters. Found this pic of monticello, utah which is the current location on the gps.
The trans america trail is designed to be a self guided adventure. Transamerica trail digital data now available adventure cycling. Download trans america trail map to your gps unit youtube. The trans america trail or tat is a roughly 5,000mile 8,000 km cross continent vehicular route, intended to be a way to cross the united states using a minimum of paved roads for leisure, traveled by dualsport motorcycles, offroad vehicle, or touring bicycle the trail was initially scouted by sam correro in 1984 who spent 12 years to assemble the route and maintains the legality of the. Driving the transamerica trail jay lenos garage duration. Feeling our way through the muddy roads of arkansas. It is a mix of dirt roads, farm roads, back roads, trails, and forest roads that go from southeast tennessee and ends in southwest oregon. Crosscountry from oklahoma to utah on vintage twostrokes. Roadrunner magazine transamerica trail, colorado to. The trail the group had left the east coast almost a month earlier, following sam correros trail the whole way. Both routes are fully navigable with turn by turn directions and all tracks are snapped to roads. Do i take the original trans america trail from trans sam or gpskevin or do i take the current some updated trail. How to get there mile 0 of the trail starts in jellico, in northeastern tennessee. Using your devices gps the postholer trails gps app will place you along your favorite trail using manual or tracking location features.
Things were going pretty well until the trail routed us up the side of a mountain. Three guarantees, one living benefi t transamerica. Monticello utah current location places ive been trail flat ballet girls flat shoes. Adventure cycling association allows free download of its gps files for its routes. Gps tracks are like breadcrumb trails from previous travelers. Scanning in all the roll charts and maps would produce some huge files for download although he could send a cd instead of all that paper. The best time to ride it is from the end of june to the beginning of october. While gps is not required, and riders can navigate the entire trail with roll charts, it is recommended that you also use gps. Their micromobile twoway radios are a favorite among overlanders who depend on reliable communication on and off the trail. Lost coast adventure trail northern california coast and mountains one week ride. Gpskevin gives you some options on the start and end. Download the tat gps maps gpskevin adventure rides.