Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
Also Google Maps now has a button you can hit after you enter your route info that looks like a small bicycle and it will route you to known bike paths, lanes, bike friendly roads as much as possible. Not sure if this will work for Mexico or Canada, I haven't tried it but I know it works for the UK so it must work for other countries.
This can be hit or miss. One issue I have with it is that it sometimes routes you out of the way in order to put you on bike trails when there are perfectly fine road options available. Also, it doesn't always recognize unpaved roads. (Maybe it never does.) As an experiment, I once entered two Montana towns on ACA's Trans Am route and asked for bike directions. What I got back was a route that was very different from the ACA route, which was totally on-road. The route went through some remote places and used a lot of unpaved roads. Some people don't like that and/or are not set up for that. Also, it totally ignored the issue of food and water. Nothing wrong with remote as long as you understand what you are getting into.