Leaving to Drive from Edmonton Alberta to Vegas Tomorrow :D
 

Any particular drives that you guys know of between vegas and the border? Here is a google map link with our proposed drive south, coming back we might take the interstates depending on how great the road is heading down. Looking for twisties as much as possible and have been told that this route is probably one of the better ones for that.

Any input? Hope the Z doesn't let me down :D

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Edmon...36.1699412!3e0

mitco- long time no post. lol'ed at GOOGLE maps :D

have a safe trip :hello:

Oh I been around, just been to busy to keep up the trolling game like I used to in the past. haha.

And yes GOOOOGLE. haha, it has its legitimate uses.

YES

The Old Spiral Highway out of Lewiston. It is right off of Highway 95 at the top of the hill before you get to Lewiston ID. Here is a link to the thread ...

Old Spiral Highway, aka Old Lewiston Grade

Awesome thank you sir :tup:

A picture of the route change

Just looked it up, its right on the way. We will definitely go that way

On a side note, when you guys are doing long trips have you ever found a good app for planning ahead? I know back in the day I used microsoft streets I think it was called which worked well. I have about a gig of data to use in the US with my phone and I am not sure if running google maps the whole time will use that up

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Have fun. I drove this when I went to school at WSU in Pullman. An incredible road. I hear it is patrolled rather well though so be careful.

mitco- just in case, bring a paper map too. :D

never know when technology suddenly fails especially at the worst of times in middle of nowhere land at 10pm on a rainy night. :ugh2:

^ Not a bad idea, where do you get these "paper" maps? lol :p

google it! :rofl2:

naw, i just bring a few print-outs. :D

The other option is to stop at the individual state visitor centers and pick up official state maps. Or you can get the 2016 Rand McNally Road Atlas. Works for the US. I am sure there is a road atlas for Canada.

do they still do that? i thought someone told me most visitor centers stopped doing that or something :confused:

i use to check-in at those places just to keep a log where ive been just in case i get lost or dissappear.
then they would know where to look. 'yes just maybe 10K square miles, we'll find him :ugh:'

Could be. I haven't checked in some time. I need to go on a long road trip.

Me too. Ever since kids the only far places I've gone were on a plane so no cross country driving. I want to drive over to the Rocky's some day soon.

Last time I passed by there was 1997 :ugh:

I didn't have a celphone... just quarters. :rofl2:

I just got back from Vegas in a road trip with my Z. I came from the opposite direction tho. Where are you staying at? You should check out a show at Ballazio called "O". Pretty crazy.

The family rented out a mansion (something like 6000sq feet on 3 acres) in the middle of the city so everyone will be staying there. Going to tie the knot while we are down there and race some cars :D

From my motorcycle trips....
 

I'd suggest staying on the east side of Glacier National Park by way of Waterton Lakes as you leave AB and down to Missoula. From there you head west out of Missoula and go the Lolo Pass (?) across into Idaho and down through the Sawtooth Nat'l Forest through Salmon, Ketchum (Sun Valley) to Twin Falls. The road into Idaho from the top of the pass west of Missoula is a fantastic stretch of fast, downhill sweepers. The peak just at the top had a massive forest fire back about 2004 which is an unreal sight.
The route is almost devoid of traffic. I cannot say it's an improvement over your proposed route. I can just speak for how awesome this route is, and most of your northerly route through WA, thru Spokane, is a big yawn.
It gets good again on your route from there down to Boise.

I'm thinking I might be too late with this.

Have a good trip.....and remember. The WA State Patrol has eyes in the sky. Don't ask me how I know.

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Sounds like a party! Have fun!

This app has saved me more than once. You can download maps by state and use them with no cell or Internet service.

MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe), detailed offline maps of the World for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire and BlackBerry

If you have lots of time and really enjoy driving Z I recommend that you go a bit East to Yellowstone National Park on your way home, the idea being to pick up the Bear Tooth Highway (US 212) into Montana as you leave the Northeast corner of the Park. From there you can continue on to Glacier National Park as someone else suggested.

Downloading now. Thanks so much

As mentioned by Kenchan, just bring a print out of google maps, each day is it's own page other wise you don't get much detail, that what I do at least.
I'll have to go this way one of these times, I normally just take I15, 18hrs Vegas to Calgary non stop. MT has some nice curvy roads and a 80-85 mile/hr speed limit, makes for fun roads.

How many days are you taking to get down?

No problem and safe travels! :tiphat:

We will probably come back up the I15. We are taking 3 days to drive and probably 2 back depending on when we leave Vegas.

Gnp
 

Glacier National Park is great, but I've ridden it both directions and it's best starting out from the park entrance on the Whitefish/Kalispell side, (west to east) especially in a car. Either way though, it's pretty impressive. Pic is of Lake McDonald at the West entrance. I have a ton of 'em. 104

ty for map...

good luck! sounds like an awesome trip... and good luck tying the knot!

she co-piloting there?

Have fun Mitch!

Congratulations :tiphat:

Enjoy the trip. Sounds like fun :tup: :driving:

Highway 12 does rock. Been on it over Lolo Pass many times. You should take that path there or back. Just make sure you do the little twisty bit Old Spiral Highway.

And congratulations on the upcoming wedding. Sounds very cool.

Shes taking her 1 Series, that little car can move. haha

135 or bust! :stirthepot:

sounds like it's going to be a fun adventure road trip for sure :icon17:

any other family going with you guys to make a large caravan?

that sounds like fun. last time i visited yellow stone was like in the 80's... :ugh: oh the rotten egg smell aka bad catalyst smell ..

:tup:

In the last ten-twelve years or so we have done road trips to Yellowstone (Badlands, Black Hills, Devils Tower, Grand Tetons, and Hells Half Acre along the way) and Acadia from Maryland. Flew to Phoenix and road tripped AZ (Sedona, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Canyon De Chelly, Meteor Crater) on 4WD. The coolest part was driving up Schnebly Hill Road out of Sedona to I-17. Made great use of that 4WD. Drove my wife crazy, but we had fun.

National Parks

That's awesome, gives you time to enjoy the twisty's. Just don't you both go and get speeding tickets. lol

right, we dont need another 'they mispelled our names on our tickets' thread. :ugh:

Waving at you as you pass through Calgary...

Made it to Bonners Ferry last night, getting ready to continue heading south right away here to hit that road that was suggested at the start this afternoon, looking forward to it. Hopefully the rain holds off from here on out. If anything the rain keeps us at the speed limit haha.

Yeah its a 135i with pretty much all the bolt on mods done to it. And they are flying down to meet us there this weekend :)

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