User Review: Garmin Colorado 300

Garmin Colorado 300
Above: The current Colorado 300, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed October 4, 2008 by 300winmag

Rating:

I own the Garmin 300, which requires the owner to buy Garrmin's TOPO 2008 CD (for about $90), load it into a computer and download it into the SD card used by the Colorado. I used a high speed SD card but a cheaper regular SC card will work.

Once loaded to the max (ex. Western U.S. to the Mississippi only) the Colorado 300 works the same as the 400t. It's easy to use IF you buy Cabela's instructional DVD for the entire Colorado series. This is absolutely a MUST for learning all the features. Garmin has very sketchy instructions - very sketchy.

LIKES> I really like the 3D option of viewing the route ahead. Also the Rock'N Roller wheel is easy to use to find any function group.

DISLIKES> What Garmin needs to do is make it less power hungry. They may have done this in their new touch screen Oregon GPS. Garmin needs to make the 300 so it can download ALL of the North American maps. My 4 GB SD card would have easily heald all the maps.

And, oh yeah, those sketchy instructions. Surely they could give you an instructional DVD.

Eric