How you actually access the hike track depends on your Garmin GPS unit. I use the Garmin GPS as a quick and easy way to ensure that I’m on the trail and heading the right away. When I hike, I read the hike guides, trip reports, look at a map, and print out whatever materials I need. To start, I don’t recommend hiking with this GPX track alone. Once you see your device in Basecamp, right-click (or control-click on Mac) on the track you created, and then hit “send to device.” It’s that easy – your GPX is now on your Garmin GPS. Most devices need Garmin Express, which will let your Garmin GPS sync with Garmin Basecamp. If you haven’t setup your Garmin GPS with your machine, check your manual for the procedure. If not, we’ll use it (without Garmin Maps) to transfer the GPX file we created earlier. If you own Garmin Maps, you can do all your route planning in Garmin Basecamp. Garmin Maps are great, but expensive, and hard to justify with all the other free options. Garmin Basecamp is a route planning tool for those who own Garmin Maps. I’m using my Fenix, but this should work with all Garmin GPS units. Once you have your GPX file, you need to transfer it to your Garmin GPS. If you want to create a cycling route, you can try GPSies, RouteLoops, or the popular. I wish Garmin’s expertise in hardware would translate to software, but it often does not. Like most Garmin software, it’s just not the easiest to use or figure out. Garmin actually has a courseplanner on Garmin Connect. If you are going ona hike from this website, I have GPX files for every hike available for download in the maps section of a hike. GPS Visualizer also has a ton of different maps available that you can create your track with. You have total control of the track and it’s points. It’s another free tool that let’s you create hike track points on it’s “draw on a map” tool. If you don’t want to automatically “snap” to trails, then try GPS Visualizer. HikingGuy users get 20-40% off a premium Gaia GPS membership with this link. I use Gaia as an offline mapping tool on my smartphone too. This is an issue with certain browsers, not you. You might also have to convert your file too (see below). If you’re on a Mac you might have to change the file name from to trackname.gpx(kill the xml part). Once you’re done creating a hike, you can go to the page for that route and download it as a GPX file. They have a tool that allows you to specify waypoints, and then Gaia will automatically “snap” a route onto the appropriate hiking trail. My tool of preference for creating ahike is Gaia GPS.
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