Going from convection cooking to GPS, routing apps....

[LoweCountryCamping]

Does anyone have strong affinities for a routing app, made for/by RVers? I just subscribed to RV Life, which allows access to the Trip Wizard but wanted to get your thoughts and real life experiences with RV travel planning. Thank you, in advance!

 

[Millerfamily04]

We use a couple to double check paths. We have rv Garmin in dash board, Apple Maps on phone, truckers path (all stays pro), Cal trans for that state, and 3 weather apps for that route. We also have trip wizard, but have not used it a lot.
Learning to trust Garmin to take us routes safe for RV. Many times the Apple Maps recommends a different route “ for a car”, not a 34 RV with a toad. research prior to hitting the road helps. I’ve also used Rand McNally paper map! ( for those areas with no WiFi)

 

[Tnedator]

I haven't traveled as much as many on here, but what I've been doing is using RV Trip Wizard to plan the trip overall. Find RV Parks, pick a fuel station I plan to stop at, and a rest area if the dogs are with us, for each day of a trip. This does a good job of making it easy to find those things and giving suggested RV friendly routing (which I can tweak).

I can then print off a full itinerary, so my wife can make reservations at the parks.

Then, when it comes to driving, I use Garmin, recently switched to the RV1095, and have started creating a trip for each day in the trip planner. Start, destination, and the one or two planned stops along the route. I started doing the entire, multi day trip in the trip planner, but didn't like that I couldn't quickly see how much Garmin said was my full driving time for the day, or ETA to the RV park for that night. Maybe there is a way to see this info that I'm missing, but barring finding that, I just started creating a trip for each day of travel, which only takes a few minutes to setup, since I've already done the hard work in RV Trip Wizard.

Then, while driving, my wife is using Google maps as a sanity check/double check, and when there is conflict between Garmin and Google, we will discuss. Typically, I find Garmin is the better option, due to RV routing, but there have been a couple, specifically leaving RV parks, where Garmin was taking us out a different, and longer, way than we entered the RV park.

 

[MemoriesByTheMile]

We use RV Life GPS for the navigation for the past 3 years. Overall works well, just have a backup. We will have another phone/gps ready to go if the primary has an issue. Happened once.

 

[LoweCountryCamping]

All great responses and info…thank you!