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memtb
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Jul 27, 2018

Information sources for the Rv’ers

This may have already been posted, though we “only recently” discovered them. Pretty interesting and informative!


flattestroute.com - Pick your route, and get the elevation changes and the % grade. Very informative for those traveling the mountain states!

www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/ - a government website that gives state by state - road info ( road closures, construction, etc.), and weather info. From the home page, merely click on National Traffic and Road Clusure Information. A US map will open, then.....pick your state of interest.
  • Also I discovered that Google Earth has an elevation feature. If you put in a route and right-click on the blue line, you can get an elevation chart. Looks like this;

  • memtb wrote:
    flattestroute.com - Pick your route, and get the elevation changes and the % grade. Very informative for those traveling the mountain states!
    Sweet! I like how you can mouse over the graph and see where the different grades can be found at.

    Even better that it is on github.

    Thanks for posting that.

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