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Navigate your next outdoor adventure with the Garmin GPSMAP 66st. Whether you’re hiking, hunting, climbing, GEOCACHING, kayaking or mountain biking, you can explore more with this premium, rugged handheld with a 3” color display. It features access to birds eye satellite imagery subscription With direct-to-device downloads to help you find your way Plus preloaded topo Blues. And Canada maps on GPSMAP 66st. And it offers multi-GNSS support as well as wireless connectivity for active weather, direct downloads and Garmin explore compatibility.
Top Review
Ryan Hanan's review is fairly comprehensive, but let me add just a couple of things.
I am upgrading from a GPSMAP 60CSx, which I have taken on backcountry trips for the last ten years. Mainly, I just record tracks, enter waypoints, and navigate back to my starting point, in at times, horrible conditions.
The 60CSx has been great for that, but I just used the 66st on my first backcountry trip over the weekend, and I am very impressed with it. I like having 24k topo for my mapping, so I took the micro SD card with the 24k topo from my 60CSx and popped it in the 66st, and it worked fine; even better than the 60CSx, since the 60CSx was horrendously slow to redraw its screen. The 66st redrew much much faster, making it much more useful to me as more than just a data collector.
As was mentioned, the buttons appear to feel and work better on the 66st as compared to the 60SCx.
The 66st has many features that I probably won't use, such as geocaching, marine and birdseye imagery, and I think that there is enough menu customizability that I can declutter the menus, so that I just get what I need.
I subscribe to Gaia GPS, though the connectivity and functionality of the Garmin Explore (and Garmin Connect) for the iPhone, may make Garmin Explore my go to iPhone map.
So, overall, a great upgrade to my previous Garmin GPS device. -
James Patrick Moore
Top Review
I was hesitant to buy the 66sr after some of the other model 66 reports of buggy firmware but I researched this by googling the gpsmap 66 bug list. I see the the significant bugs have been corrected and this matches my experience. I purchased two model 66sr receivers and gave them a thorough workout but using multiple maps (the built in active top, the free OSM maps, and birds eye imagery loaded using Basecamp). We both used them for a long on-trail and off-trail hike and even did some geocaching. The two units worked flawlessly!
One big benefit is that I found I could get a good GPS position in situation where I could get only a poor position (or none at all with an unlucky satellite positioning above me).
(I have owned a number of previous Garmin and other brand GPS receivers.) I have been using GPS receivers since they were first available and the 66sr is the best currently available. Why? It has the best accuracy with it's multi-band support (not the 66i does not have this and since I carry an InReach Mini, the 66i would have been a step down for me. If you don't have an inreach device then the 66i may be of value even though it doesn't have the enhanced accuracy and reliability. -
Wolfgang Stiller
Warranty & Support
Amazon Return Policy:You may return any new Garmin GPSMAP 66st, Rugged Multisatellite Handheld with Sensors and Topo Maps purchased from Amazon that is "dead on arrival," arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Amazon reserves the right to test "dead on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the product. Any returned product that is damaged through customer misuse, is missing parts, or is in unsellable condition due to customer tampering will result in the customer being charged a higher restocking fee based on the condition of the product. Amazon will not accept returns of any product more than 30 days after you receive the shipment. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from Marketplace vendors are subject to the returns policy of the individual vendor.
