GrandmaCarol
Cadiz, KY
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I've never seen times so far off between planning tools:
Good Sam trip planning 454 miles 8:23
Google maps 489 11:18
mapquest 489 14:21
Would you believe one over the other, or just assume there can be this much difference between one trip and another?
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Luke Porter
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Mapquest is probably using Canadian minutes And Good Sam using average US/Canadian minutes.
Yep, actually drove to all of these places---in the last eight years. Missed Rhode Island and New Jersey.
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trigley
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Welcome to the north, it is not the easiest place to build or maintain highways. If you were on that road last Sept it could have been several days.
I would totally disregard the first and not put much reliance on the others. Just go & enjoy.
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joe b.
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Below the border I use a rule of thumb of 50 mph so it takes me 2 hours per hundred miles and I use 6.7 gallons of diesel per 100 miles on the average. North of the Canadian border, I figure on making roughly 40 mph or 2.5 hours per hundred miles. So for my driving style, I would go with the one closest to 11.25 hours for the distance of 489 miles, subject to fishing streams, photo opps, need to stretch, go for a hike and a few more variables. If I just do the regular stops in the north country, I plan my trips for about 2.5 hours per hundred miles and I won't be far off most days.
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Supreme Oppressor
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Depends on the route the map program takes. I had one that insisted I take a logging road in B.C.. I had to zoom in and set waypoints on the highway before it would route me on pavement.
When I moved from Northern Ontario to Northern Alberta, I had the same issue with being routed onto an unserviced logging road (hadn't seen a grader in three years). Luckily I knew about it.
When I checked the "use major freeways" option, it routed me through Texas.
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afraid of bears
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LOL! Now that's funny. We had the same problem in Alaska. The dang GPS put us into an area where the roads were still being layed out. Had a heck of a time turning around at the end of the road where there was no turn around spot. Thank goodness for axes!!!!
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sirdrakejr
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Canadian minutes!! Well, I don't know for sure now but the last time I looked the minutes were the same everywhere in the world. 
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afraid of bears
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I'm sure I remember someone talking about changing our time over to the metric system. There would be ten seconds in a minute, ten minutes in an hour, ten hours in a day, ten days in a month and ten months in a year. Therefor, you would age that much quicker and retire that much earlier and hence have more time to go camping!!!! Sounds good to me!!!
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explorenorth
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"afraid of bears", you have my vote for President, or Prime Minister, or King, or whatever will make metric time happen!
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