Originally Posted by
SpeshulEd
Hmm, bike paths and even some offroad mtb trails come up on my Garmin Connect as roads, of course, this is in the city (or close to it) so maybe they're ridden enough to register.
No, the paths have to be on the map being used as "routable" ways.
Originally Posted by
SpeshulEd
You could try Map My Ride or Ride With GPS to map, but it's a bigger pain to get the route onto your garmin.
It's easy enough. Download a file and the copy/move the file to the "\Garmin\NewFiles" folder on the device. It's a useful skill to have anyway since you'll likely have routes provided that sooner or later.