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Turn by Turn Direction Features on my Garmin Outdoor Handheld

Your Garmin outdoor handheld is able to provide turn-by-turn directions via roads to desired locations. 

This feature allows you to use your handheld similarly to our automotive devices, with a few differences.

Handheld devices using turn-by-turn directions will not provide the following:

  • Traffic
  • Lane View
  • Junction View
  • Spoken turn-by-turn directions1
  • 3D Building view
  • Foursquare POI’s
  • Trip Advisor

In order to provide you with turn-by-turn directions, you need a compatible map that contains road routing data, such as our Topo 24K, HuntView, or City Navigator® map series. See Related below for more information.


1 GPSMAP® 276Cx, Monterra™, and Montana® 600 series outdoor handhelds can provide spoken turn-by-turn directions when connected to a speaker mount or when plugged into the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. The Montana 700 series handhelds can give spoken directions when connected to a speaker mount or a wireless headset, but does not have a headphone jack. For speaker mount options, review the devices accessory options under the specific device product page of Garmin.com.

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