Originally Posted by
DropBarFan
Mostly lived in DC region & it's still the most confusing area for routing I've ever seen. Roads cross each other, change names etc. OTOH on last regional tour I used phone to re-route after getting side-tracked & the phone sent me 15 miles out of the way. Also seen some Pennsylvania areas where road signage is very sparse.
Originally Posted by
Doug64
Paper maps still work. State bike route guides, and a road map are readily available, and are great supplements to phones and GPS units.
Same with Boston. My favorite map is the Metropolitan AAA road map. Scale is appropriate to provide detail to find good roads, but covers enough distance, about 50-60 miles from downtown, to plot a century. I use my phone to locate myself on the paper map.
I have used one for DC too, as well as Philadelphia and Toronto.