"Knowledge for the western back roads explorer..."

What is BackRoadsWest.com?

At BackRoadsWest.com, you'll find the most comprehensive Virtual Tour Guides available for the Southwestern United States.  Use our Virtual Guides to take a tour on your computer or to plan your next adventure.  Not only will our Guides "virtually" take you to those hard-to-find places with beautiful pictures but the maps will show you exactly how to get there! 

Let us take you to those out-of-the-way places you've been looking for!  Each Virtual Guide CD contains not just pictures and maps of the area you want to visit but the history, geology, flora and fauna, hiking trails and dirt roads, too.   Learn about a region before you ever leave your living room!  See and read about what's at the end of that dirt road or hiking trail as well as what's along the way. 

We know - we've been there.  We have spent the past 10+ years roaming the Southwest - gathering pictures and information along the way.  Each Guide is based on our personal knowledge of that area.

Come with us and explore the unparalleled beauty and wonder of Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah via the back roads!  We will take you hiking and 4-wheel driving through the distinctive deserts, narrow slot canyons, classic old mines and historic ghost towns of the Southwest. 

    If you enjoy.....

                          then these Virtual Guides are for YOU!

What you get in each Virtual Guide:

Our Guides work much the same as a webpage on the Internet and you can quickly look up information or switch from one topic to another with the click of a mouse. 

Our Guides use the maps of Delorme and Microsoft Mappoint to give you the most accurate location information for the dirt roads and hiking trails we describe.  We also use the maps to show you where the many pictures included in each Guide were taken.  These pictures are the very best from our own personal library of thousands. 

Each Guide includes the accumulated knowledge gathered from traveling the Southwest for over 10 years. This  detailed knowledge includes the history, flora and fauna and geology as well as where to find the dirt roads and hiking trails of this extraordinary and beautiful region of the United States.

Each Guide is divided into different sections to help you quickly find the particular topic you are interested in.  Some of the sections are: Road Trips, Hiking, Photo Tours, History, Geology and Flora & Fauna. These sections are also cross-referenced so you can easily click from one to another.  You can also explore a region by simply "surfing" a map of that region and clicking in the area you want to learn more about.

Other valuable information we include are road conditions (with photographs whenever possible), area accommodations, GPS coordinates that can overlay on top of your own copy of Topo USA or MapPoint, links to other Internet websites and more.

We have blended all of these elements together to create an easy-to-use Virtual Guide that gives you as much information about an area as possible.      

Our mission at BackRoadsWest.com is to develop and produce detailed Virtual Guides for the many different regions of the Southwestern United States.  We felt that, rather than writing a book, the best way to present this information and give you that "virtual feel" was with a CD.  By using the "power of technology", you can easily navigate within each Guide and move from one topic to another with the click of a mouse.