| Garmin GPSMAP 60 Personal Navigation Unit |  | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $321.99
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 23,736
Media: Electronics
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Tracks: 20
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 2
Native Resolution: 240x160
Display Size: 2.6
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 1.3 x 2.4 x 7.1
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MPN: GPS 60
Model: GPS 60
UPC: 753759044008
EAN: 0753759044008
ASIN: B0002V4U30
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | WAAS-Enabled, 12 Parallel-Channel GPS Receiver | | • | Large, Grayscale Display With Bright, Backlit Led | | • | 50 Reversible Routes, 10,000 Track Points With Tracback Technology & 1,000 Waypoints With Additional Graphical Icons For Location Identification | | • | Serial & Usb Connections For Fast & Versatile Download Transfer | | • | Built-In Basemap With Automatic Routing Capabilities & Turn-By-Turn Voice Prompts |
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Product Description
GPSMAP 60
Package Includes:
- GPSMAP 60
- Basemap: Americas - Americas Recreational
- MapSource® Trip & Waypoint Manager CD
- PC/USB interface cable
- Wrist strap
- Belt clip with button
- Quick start guide
- Owner's manual
Backwoods, boundary waters, blue highways the GPSMAP 60 is your trusted guide to the great outdoors. The GPSMAP 60 along with the GPS 60 are packed with several of the features found in the 60 series color units, but sport an affordable, high-resolution, monochrome display for outdoor enthusiasts on a budget.
The rugged, waterproof GPSMAP 60 is the perfect, low-cost, navigator for wherever your spirit of adventure takes you:
- Large, sunlight-readable, four-level grayscale display with bright LED backlight makes it easy to find your way day or night
- 28 hours of battery life for more hours of outdoor enjoyment
- Both serial and USB connections for fast and versatile download transfer
- Built-in basemap with automatic routing capabilities to guide you, turn-by-turn, with tone prompts to your destination
- 24 MB of internal memory for lots of storage of optional MapSource marine, topo and city street mapping downloads
Like the other products in the 60 series, this trusty handheld is compact and lightweight, with a user-friendly interface. It's reliable, and extra-precise as WAAS can make it. Special geocaching and geolocation gaming modes provide entertainment, as well as trailblazing navigation capability. The unit also includes an alarm clock, sunrise/sunset and moon phase tables, optimal hunting and fishing times plus much more.
Fully compatible with the entire line of MapSource products (see product compatibility table), the GPSMAP 60 makes it easy to navigate the great outdoors.
GPSMAP 60 Features:
- Sunlight-readable, four-level grayscale transflective FSTN display (1.5"
Amazon.com Product Description
Optimized for both land and marine navigation, Garmin's handheld GPSMap 60 includes a built-in Americas basemap with automatic routing capabilities. The 12-parallel-channel GPS receiver is designed to provide precise GPS positioning using correction data obtained from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). 
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The Garmin GPSMap 60 packs GPS navigation into a compact, waterproof device. | The GPSMap 60 also features 24 MB of internal memory for detailed maps that you can load through a speedy USB interface, and it's fully compatible with Garmin MapSource products such as BlueChart, 24K Topo, and City Select, which provides detailed streets for turn-by-turn guidance. However, it is important to note that the GPSMap 60 does not provide voice notification. The device offers a high-contrast, four-level grayscale LCD (160 x 240 pixels) with backlighting for the display and the keypad. A large-numbers option provides easy viewing. You get 1,000 user waypoints with name and graphic symbol and 20 reversible routes; position formats include Lat/Lon, UTM, Loran TDs, Maidenhead, MGRS, and user grid. Memory is non-volatile for permanent user data storage, requiring no memory battery. A handy trip computer provides an odometer, stopped time, moving average, overall average, total time, max speed, and more. The unit also comes with a 10,000-point automatic track log, and 20 saved tracks (500 points each) let you retrace your path in both directions. Other features include course and speed filtering; built-in celestial tables for best times to fish and hunt (plus sun and moon calculations); an alarm clock wake-up and stop watch; audible alarms for anchor drag, arrival, off-course, and proximity waypoint; and a geocaching navigation mode. Navigation instructions can be shared with repeaters, plotters, and autopilots using NMEA protocols through the serial port. The GPSMap 60's rugged, fully gasketed case is waterproof to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards, meaning it's submersible in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes. The device derives up to 28 hours battery life using 2 AA batteries (not included).
What's in the Box
GPSMAP 60 receiver, basemap (Americas Recreational), MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager CD, PC/USB interface cable, wrist strap, belt clip with button, quick-start guide, and owner's manual.
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 great item, but.... April 4, 2010
E. Dlugoss
Great item, used for geochaching and basic nav. nice features, easy to learn and use. Problems I had, gps would not settle down, kept jumping with big variations for distance, from 1.3 miles to 53 miles, recalculating every 2-5sec. wanted me to leave trails to jump on the interstate. The biggest problem is the screen. You cant see a thing, even after adjusting the screen, contrast, brightness, you cant see the screen very well. outdoors, in sunlight, indoors, even in a dark room with the back light on, hard to see. I'm very experianced with using GPS units and this screen is just horriable. I'm returning it for the 60CSx with color screen, should be able to see that. Oh and Garman quit advertizing the units and showing them with the topo mapes that you have to buy seperatly and that you dont mention in the item desription but show on every picture of the product. at least note that the picture show is of an add on map feature not included. I recommend if you plan on using a gps for more than an emergency or back up gps, get the color you'll enjoy it more.
excellent back country GPS December 13, 2009
Kirk Wahl (Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this unit. It is much easier to use than the old Magellan I own. Satellite acquisition is pretty quick, even in tree cover. When cold, I have consistent acquisition within 45 seconds. I input GPS coordinates from a topographical map as a waypoint, then navigated directly to it through heavy tree cover, and only lost the signal once. The unit menus are easily customized. The only draw back I find to this unit is the battery life. In November I used it for a 5 day hunting trip, and had to replace the batteries twice. In short, if you are looking for a unit to find your way around in an urban setting, this is not the unit for you, but if you want to explore the path less traveled, you could not find a better unit than the Garmin GPS 60.
Does the job. July 11, 2009
Robin Boling (Moscow ID USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this mostly for hiking and also for geocaching. For those uses this GPS does all you need. Sure the base map comes with only the larger highways and basically no landmarks aside from large lakes and points marking towns; but if I do a little planning ahead I don't need the map.
What I do is trace with paths, or mark with points any landmarks that are important for where I will be going in google earth. I export these to a free 3rd party software (GPS Trackmaker) that will allow me to open google earth KML files and save out a GPX file which I can then open with the included software (Mapsource) and transfer to the device. This sounds complicated but it's really a quick operation and allows me to use google earth for everything which is the point.
You can also buy maps for it if this is too much work for you. The great thing about my process though is you learn a lot about where you're going before hand from your exploration in google earth which can be invaluable.
My only complaint(why its 4 stars instead of 5) is it only supports 20 saved paths. I haven't really needed more than that yet but I'm sure at some point I will considering I'm using saved paths to mark roads, rivers, creeks, trails and other landmarks in the area I intend to visit.
Aside from the 20 paths you also get the 10,000 point "track log" which is just one very long path that it makes automatically as you travel. I enjoy this feature a lot and google earth does support loading all the paths and waypoints directly from the GPS so its not an involved process to view your recent exploits in google earth.
If you want something that doesn't require any tinkering you'd better double your price range; otherwise this is a great device.
 Work Horse GPS December 21, 2008
Brian E. Gratien (East Syracuse,NY)
This Garmin Map60 has everything you need for hiking, hunting , Geocaching, road navigation and more. It's easy use and hold. The screen is also easily seen. I'm still learning about but very glad I bought it!
GREAT October 14, 2008
Rodger Parks (Stanwood, WA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this GPS, so much in fact it goes everyplace I do. Bought it for geocaching, now I use it to track my workouts or to give me driving directions. It works better than the Navi I have in my car, I have tested both and the handheld unit beats the car everytime.
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