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I will continue to buy other states based in the western U.S. Elevation, rivers, places to camp etc are just a few of the things in these books. as I plan to continue to take road trips. I have purchased these for Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado and Utah so far. They are great to take along on a road trip as they are very detailed and show you where so much is.
Rainier. This is great for trip planning and treasuring hunting for the perfect campsite. This is the atlas I recommend for finding back roads and hiking trails. Hawaii's map pages are 1:84,000 scale and parts of Alaska can have 1:1,1,400,000 scale. The book is great for armchair journeys, finding boat launches, streams, and public hunting and fishing grounds. Everyone knows that camping is very crowded over the 4th. It's a small lake tucked into the mountains off highway 12 near Mt.
Visit our blog at www.radiodirectoryvagabonds.blogspot.com - and you can see Lost Lake and the beautiful campsite we found. There are many more lakes that we will explore next summer using this atlas.
We live in Washington State. Not only did we find Lost Lake but we had a waterfront campsite and I caught my limit of rainbow trout.
These guides are very detailed because they are written for each individual state. Lost Lake is off the beaten path and our atlas showed us the way to get there.
Ken Fritz author of The United States Radio Directory: A Traveler's Favorite Companion 2008-2009 Visit http://delorme.com and you can get information on map scales and elevations for the state you're interested in.I can thank this book for the best 4th of July I ever had.
It was in this book that I found Lost Lake.
But over all the detail is good for being that it covers the entire state. Some trails and/or dirt roads seem to have changed some from when these books were published. There are some local area maps of state and federal lands that show better detail and seem to be more updated. This atlas is a must have for going off the paved roads in Wyoming (or really any western state) for both planning and driving.My only question is; I'm not sure how often they update these books with changes. It would be nice for them to indicate that.
Special features are also noted. The Delorme atlases/gazetteers are valuable references especially if you are traveling the back roads. I already have atlases for five states, and the collection will surely grow in coming years. Get one of these for any state where you plan to explore off the beaten trail. Compared to a regular road map, there is much more detail to find your way just about anywhere in the atlas coverage area. If you need a lot of detail, you can then purchase topographic maps.
Two thumbs up. DeLorme has done it again. Stellar mapping and attention to detail make this a grand publication.
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