New England Snowmobile Map

Heard about Trailmasters in spring snowmobile newsletter. Knew I wanted to get a Garmin gps. Saw their booth @ grass drags and bought immediately. loaded onto unit and looking forward to see how it works this season. Have high expectations

I bought this product a month ago after I decided to mount my Garmin Zumu 660 motorcycle GPS on my Polaris. The maps loaded great and installation instructions on the Trailmasters site were excellent. I was quickly up on Garmin BaseCamp. I'm an advanced user of GPS navigation gear having planed routes using Garmin Aviation, Marine and BaseCamp products all over this hemisphere. I have successfully planned and rode dozens of motorcycle road routes created on BaseCamp over the last two summers. The route planning on BaseCamp was the same between the Trailmaster and my Garmin MC maps. My issue was with what I planned on BaseCamp with Trailmasters did not appear as the same route downloaded to my Zumo GPS. I shut off my road maps as described in the Trailmaster guide and then I played with the preference settings on the GPS as I have done in the past with my Motorcycle maps. I was not able to get these settings configured to allow the exact routing as planned on BaseCamp. What I did instead was to download the POI's from Trailmasters as well as waypoints I created to "steer" the route on the trails I wanted. Once these waypoints where downloaded, I created the routes manually on my Zumo GPS. This worked but took more time than just downloading from BaseCamp. Above was my planning issue. Below was the execution of the plans on the GPS. The trails around Mt Katahdin in Maine change from season to season. This is due to private roads, that are normally trails, being plowed and used for logging operations. On a few occasions when I went off my route and asked the GPS to re-calculate my route, I was routed on these logging roads. The other issue I had was with verbal prompts for steering the route. I have a Sena SMH10 headset in my helmet bluetooth'd to my Zumo 660. If working properly, the routing will announce upcoming turns in my helmet. I have not been able to get the routing announcements to work. The only prompt that worked was the "Off Route, Recalculate" announcement. I'm not sure if this is a hardware of software issue, but I thought I would mention it. What I stated above is detailed routing issues. That's why I give the software a 4 out of 5. For someone who selects a POI and hits "Go To" this software will certainly work as advertised.

Maps are great, but to know exactly where you are on the trail and have POI's is awesome.

glad I purchased this it works great on nuvi 52 however the nuvi touch screen can be finicky in the cold also I have tracks in southern vermont that i should send you so you can update, problem is not a clue on how to use alot of functions w the nuvi/basecamp etc

Purchased this last year - I do not lead my group but I always refer to GPS while I travel for my info - if we get lost I am confident I could get group back with my GPS - I have learned to run this GPS with the expert advise from Doug - he gets me through my issue and does it promptly - Thanks Doug for your support - Love using this and wouldn't be without it.

Can't tell you how many times I am glad I had the maps loaded on my Garmin! So many times I come to intersections and the signage says 1 thing but the Garmin says another and thank God I had the Garmin because someone messed with the signs on the trails! If you like to explore new areas and get out of the "norm" than this is a must have!

For the guy who just heads to the bar and back on his snowmobile - don't bother. You already know the way. For people who put some miles on and go new places this map is great. I used to scan club maps and overlay them to my GPS. Then I had to find gas stations on the trail. Many hours of work. Now I just buy a map subscription and it's done. I have trails on my GPS and they are updated all the time. I found a missing section of trail and sent in my trac log to Doug. Next release he fixed it. From my email exchanges with Doug I believe he works very hard to make the GPS Trailmasters map as accurate as possible. I hope to subscribe to the New England map for many years to come. Thank You GPS Trailmasters.

Just returned from Reciprocal weekend in Rangeley. Spent two days riding with a group of 12. Before I arrived in Rangeley I worked with Doug on building a couple of Routes (pre determined trails that you are going to ride). Doug took the time to walk thru building a route in Garmin Basecamp in conjunction with the Trailmaster software. I have to tell you it really worked perfectly. The routes were saved to my garmin handheld. As we were leaving the Rangeley Inn in the morning I selected the day's route and once we got on the trail, it matched up perfectly. At every intersection the garmin was spot on with the directions. I can tell you having never ridden out of Rangeley and leading a group of 12 riders it was nice know exactly where I was going. While I had map(s) as backups, I never needed to pull them out. Route building is easy enough to learn. Once you get it, it really makes the actual ride in unfamiliar territory very enjoyable. Great Product and even better support. Thank you and keep it up.

trails are right on and keep you going when signs arn't quite right. my 3rd year.