Thanks for the pictures DrGuest. It definitely helps to know what I am looking for when I arrive at a new charge site.
Supercharger - Butte, MT
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Bighorn
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I made a loop around the hotel before I saw it behind the casino. Coming from the west, you need to get fully left at the end of the off ramp or you will miss the turn. Don't know why the NAV wants a U-turn instead of a simple left then right. Kind of rough but it will be a little more open when they remove the big dumpster.
Coming from Missoula, the Tesla GPS routes you to exit at Rocker, two exits before you should exit from I-90 to get to the Butte Supercharger. And if you follow the GPS at Rocker, you soon come to a Road closed sign! The GPS should send you to the Harrison Avenue exit where the chargers at the Best Western are less than a block from the freeway exit.
Bighorn
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That’s never happened in 4 years of heading through there. Maybe it was a traffic related re-route.
Mobius484
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Some time in the last year or so, a City Brew coffee shop opened up in the same parking lot as this supercharger. This is a welcome addition as the amenities here are somewhat lacking. It's not the greatest coffee shop in the world, but it's about as good as you could hope for in Butte, Montana. Strangely, I noticed the Starbucks about a quarter mile down the road has been shuttered. I had walked there once or twice on supercharger stops but it was a somewhat long and not very pleasant walk (usually involved jaywalking across Harrison Ave), and it wasn't a very nice Starbucks. It's usually Starbucks that comes in and puts the other coffee shop out of business lol.
alpinehijinx
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Stopped here a few times recently on a road trip. For some inexplicable reason the NAV system routes you west on Dewey Blvd, south on Busch, east on Gilman, then back north on Harrison before turning right into the SC/City Brew Coffee parking lot. And then you have to search around the parking lot using only some intuition for the chargers. Why would the directions not simply take you south on Harrison and left into the parking lot? Does this sort of misdirection happen a lot with the NAV? I don't quite understand why the system can't guide you directly to the SC stalls, especially in a complex parking lot? Shouldn't be that hard. Nearer my home, the map guidance also wants me to get off a US highway for two blocks, only to get right back on and continue. Pretty annoying in AP! What's the deal with such large errors?
Bighorn
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Nav doesn't recognize that a left turn is possible at the Butte SC entrance. Brief departures off the interstate are usually remappings because of a perceived traffic slow down. You can adjust that sensitivity in settings
