Overview

The Garmin Navionics+ BUS001L is an electronic chart region for U.S. waters and Coastal Canada that runs on compatible Garmin chartplotters from microSD/SD media and includes a one-year subscription for daily updates through the ActiveCaptain app.

It combines coastal features with inland detail for lakes, rivers, and waterways, with coverage that includes the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Coastal Canada. On the water, it is the kind of chart package you use for everyday navigation, fishing structure work, and planning routes into marinas.

Chart layers and overlays help tailor what you see on-screen, while Auto Guidance+ can suggest a dock-to-dock route based on your settings such as safe depth and overhead clearance. Depth Range Shading lets you highlight target depths with up to 10 shaded ranges, and supported areas can show up to 1-foot contours for reading bottom shape.

Key features

• U.S. & Coastal Canada region for compatible Garmin chartplotters, covering coastal and inland waters including Alaska and Hawaii
• One-year subscription with access to daily chart updates through the ActiveCaptain app
• Auto Guidance+ dock-to-dock route suggestions using your boat settings such as safe depth and overhead clearance (planning tool only)
• Depth Range Shading with up to 10 shaded ranges, plus shallow-water shading at a user-defined depth
• Up to 1-foot contours in supported areas to help show bottom structure for navigation and fishing
• Optional NOAA raster cartography downloads for certain U.S. waters (availability and viewing support depend on chartplotter model)
• ActiveCaptain community content for practical points of interest such as marinas, hazards, and anchorages in supported areas

Variants

This chart region is offered in multiple configurations to match how your Garmin system handles cartography updates and how you prefer to receive the charts.

The differences across these options are the product version (built-in chart update versus Garmin Navionics+) and the delivery format (preloaded microSD/SD media versus download to your own card).

• 010-13177-00: Built-in Chart Updates; microSD/SD. Intended for compatible chartplotters that shipped with built-in BlueChart g3 coastal charts or LakeVü g3 inland maps and use an update card to move to Garmin Navionics+ content.
• 010-C1287-20: Garmin Navionics+; microSD/SD. Preloaded media for the U.S. & Coastal Canada region that you plug into a compatible chartplotter.
• 010-D1889-20: Garmin Navionics+; Download. Lets you load the chart data onto your own microSD/SD card instead of receiving a preloaded card.

Compatibility and fit

This chart region is made for compatible Garmin chartplotters that support Garmin Navionics+ cartography and read microSD/SD media. The built-in chart update configuration is specifically tied to units that originally came with built-in BlueChart g3 or LakeVü g3 mapping.

If you are using the download format, your own microSD/SD card becomes the storage for the region data and any extra content you add during the subscription period. Feature availability can vary by chartplotter model, especially for viewing certain downloaded raster chart layers.

Updating and day-to-day use

After activation, the included one-year subscription opens access to daily chart updates through the ActiveCaptain app, along with additional downloadable content where available. Charts and features downloaded during the active subscription remain on the card, and continued access to new updates and new downloads requires an active subscription.

This setup is a good match for boaters who run a Garmin plotter in U.S. and Coastal Canada waters and want current chart detail for coastal runs, inland trips, and fishing days where contour definition and depth highlighting matter.