Pacific coast 3500 mile road trip through national parks!

[Jah.]

Nice .

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[dhaskit]

Wow. That looks like a great trip and a great truck to do it in. It’s amazing how much happier those kind of journeys make us, isn’t it?

 

[VICKY]

First thread on a trip journal!

Route was from San Diego-Mt St Helens-Seattle- Cape Flattery, then hitting as many national parks and preserves on my way down the 101! Hoh National rainforest, lot of spots in the Olympic National Park and the beaches all along the washington and oregon coast. Hit the Coastal Redwoods as well in California before diving off across the mountians above San Francisco to meet back up with the 5 back down to San Diego!

Overall the truck handled beautifully! 2 lane twisty coastal backroads, one lane dirt roads and some light offroading, sand on the beach, it took it all splendidly. I did notice I tanked my gas mileage on the i5, it doesnt really shine on the highway other than still being better than most trucks, super comfortable to drive and able to set cruise control which is a big deal on road trips!
Did a lot better on the 101 and all along the forest service roads!

Slept out of the bed for most of the trip, i had a hodgepodge rack put together that required some light alterations to get it set up for the maverick bed, ill go into what i did to it later! Slapped a canvas tarp on top with a net and didnt loose anything i crammed in there all along the trip. Truck kept everything i needed electrical charged with the interior ports.

Other than that, it served exactly what i needed and worked beautifully. Planning a lot of smaller trips and another large one next year.

WOW on my bucket list!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Congaman1]

thanks for the great pictures . I hopefully will be taking a long road trip in my Mav. love those green mavs

 

[Charles T.]

Sorry to see some fool spray painted your license plate!

 

[jcs]

Beautiful! I love that eruption green color! I am planning a camping trip to Sequoia National Park and after that I would love to do a trip to Highway 395 and camp at different spots.

 

[mkswift]

Very amazing. Wish I were young enough to sleep in the bed. I am heading north from Scottsdale in July with a similar route up the coast. I am going to Alaska, though, so you gave me some ideas for the route back. Very, very nice pictures.

 

[nbmav]

We just missed each other, I was driving around the OP in my Eruption Green (stayed in Forks and branched out from there) on Memorial day and the following two days. Bailed on the Hoh this time as the line was too long. Saw one other Mav in our travels.

 

[MaverickX2]

First thread on a trip journal!

Route was from San Diego-Mt St Helens-Seattle- Cape Flattery, then hitting as many national parks and preserves on my way down the 101! Hoh National rainforest, lot of spots in the Olympic National Park and the beaches all along the washington and oregon coast. Hit the Coastal Redwoods as well in California before diving off across the mountians above San Francisco to meet back up with the 5 back down to San Diego!

Overall the truck handled beautifully! 2 lane twisty coastal backroads, one lane dirt roads and some light offroading, sand on the beach, it took it all splendidly. I did notice I tanked my gas mileage on the i5, it doesnt really shine on the highway other than still being better than most trucks, super comfortable to drive and able to set cruise control which is a big deal on road trips!
Did a lot better on the 101 and all along the forest service roads!

Slept out of the bed for most of the trip, i had a hodgepodge rack put together that required some light alterations to get it set up for the maverick bed, ill go into what i did to it later! Slapped a canvas tarp on top with a net and didnt loose anything i crammed in there all along the trip. Truck kept everything i needed electrical charged with the interior ports.

Other than that, it served exactly what i needed and worked beautifully. Planning a lot of smaller trips and another large one next year.

Absolutely stunning pictures. I am curious about the what appears to be a tent on the back. Who make that unit?

 

[jquirk]

Did you seen any whales passing Cape Flattery??

 

[canuckford]

your very welcome! i love taking photos!

Nice photos, which bug/stone deflector is that? I'm looking for a recommendation

 

[SweetSunshine]

Nice photos, which bug/stone deflector is that? I'm looking for a recommendation

its the bugflector 2, from realtruck.com and i did my own vinyl gold pinstripe. its pretty easy to put on, im not mechanical at all and it took me about a half hour. then another half hour to figure out how to adjust my hood haha.

 

[SweetSunshine]

Did you seen any whales passing Cape Flattery??

no, i was so sad!! but it was beautiful still!

 

[SweetSunshine]

Absolutely stunning pictures. I am curious about the what appears to be a tent on the back. Who make that unit?

so i actually put it together, im gonna do another post about how i built it and made it fit, it might be next week sometime!

 

[SweetSunshine]

We just missed each other, I was driving around the OP in my Eruption Green (stayed in Forks and branched out from there) on Memorial day and the following two days. Bailed on the Hoh this time as the line was too long. Saw one other Mav in our travels.

i saw a few driving around! awww, sad that i missed you!

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