Offroading Home

In order to explore the Mormon Mesa a little more, Gordon, Hugh and I took to the offroad once again and headed south. OK… Gordon had conv...

For some time now I have had the BLMs map of their proposal for turning Gold Butte (and Bunkerville Flats) into a WILDERNESS AREA, glaring a...

Some years ago now Google gobbled up a small upstart company whith a good idea: Panoramio . It was a company which developed software that...

Offroading Home met with an intrepid group of offroaders who have just quietly and behind the scenes been going about the business of monito...

"Don't leave home without one" is a great idea – especially if you are talking about a map. I've even had a person tell me...

Well, what was started over 5 months ago is finally done: the Colorado USGS Features file .   I had a request from a reader to do the same t...

Nearly every offroading book I pick up has some kind of scale they use to rate how difficult a listed trail is to ride. The problem is tha...

The Utah Trails ATV-SUV master map has undergone almost a complete revision and update. The graphic interface for the whole file was en...

[This post is part six in a multi-part series about understanding the GPS system and its coordinate grid. The last (hopefully) in the ser...

[This post is part six in a multi-part series about understanding the GPS system and its coordinate grid. Being ( hopefully ) pretty mu...

I'm basking in the light of some help with trail verification here on the Offroading Home blog. Michael Davidson , who usually ride...

[This post is part five in a multi-part series about understanding the GPS system and its coordinate grid.] Believe it or not both of the...

I have it on good authority that Arizona "felt left out" of what is turning out to be a major life's work for me in these west...

[This post is part four in a multi-part series about understanding the GPS system and its coordinate grid.] I don't know about you but...

I bet no one saw this coming: I completed the file with all the USGS Waypoints for Montana . Neither did I. Why did I do Montana before Ar...

[This post is part three in a multi-part series about understanding the GPS system and its coordinate grid.] By now you realize that there...

[This post is part two in a multi-part series about understanding the GPS system and its coordinate grid.] Ok, you should remember from th...

Cathedral Gorge I mentioned that I had created a USGS Features Master File for Clark County Nevada , as I had done for Utah and I recieved ...

[This post is part one of a multiple part series about understanding and using GPS coordinates in offroad travel: Latitude, Longitude and co...

Well it's done. There are some great SUV ATV offroad trails in the new map; but, I have to say that it's completion was pretty much ...