I was informed by someone that my trip from Nashville TN to Russellville KY would take me up a very steep grade and I may try a different route. My question is do any GPS or traveling program route you the best way by avoiding problems in a route?

A year and 4 months ago we drove US-431 south from Central City, KY where we'd visited some rv.net forum friends and on south thru Russellville, KY and on to I-24 to connect with I-65 at Nashville on our way to Florida. We were pulling our 12,800 lb Carrilite 5th wheel. Sure would like to know where that steep hill is because all we saw was rolling land and basically farms/farm lands and nothing steep or a long grade that's remotely worrying. Most of the road distance was very smooth and divided road areas and nice travel. They were resurfacing one area but that was over a year ago. Our friends in Central City (is the ex-mayor of the city for 12 years) suggested we go that way south so we did and they were right as there wasn't a lot of traffic and was a nearly straight shot to I-65.

The only way to avoid stuff you don't want to travel with a GPS is do the route on a computer, verify it on Google Earth then up load to the GPS.GPS's as point and shoot devices are either shortest route or fastest route and don't take things like traffic lights and mountain ranges into account.

in google earth you can check the various elevations of highways you are thinking of running.bumpy

scrubjaysnest wrote:The only way to avoid stuff you don't want to travel with a GPS is do the route on a computer, verify it on Google Earth then up load to the GPS.GPS's as point and shoot devices are either shortest route or fastest route and don't take things like traffic lights and mountain ranges into account.As far as I know all Garmin GPS units have some built in avoidances like U-turns, toll roads, unpaved roads, etc. Some Garmins even have the ability to load custom avoidances, but you'd have to find them and load them via computer. There are many on-line sites have have a lot of these that can be loaded into Garmin, low bridges and underpasses for example. Creating your own set to load isn't all that difficult. All you need is a Lat and Long and a name that you want for that location.

Don't know what route you are planning; but I have traveled between the two several times and I don't recall any steep grades between Nashville and Russellville.

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travelnutz
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May 17, 2015
A year and 4 months ago we drove US-431 south from Central City, KY where we'd visited some rv.net forum friends and on south thru Russellville, KY and on to I-24 to connect with I-65 at Nashville on our way to Florida. We were pulling our 12,800 lb Carrilite 5th wheel.

Sure would like to know where that steep hill is because all we saw was rolling land and basically farms/farm lands and nothing steep or a long grade that's remotely worrying. Most of the road distance was very smooth and divided road areas and nice travel.

They were resurfacing one area but that was over a year ago. Our friends in Central City (is the ex-mayor of the city for 12 years) suggested we go that way south so we did and they were right as there wasn't a lot of traffic and was a nearly straight shot to I-65.

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