Product Description: New 2nd Edition printed April, 2007. Improved shaded relief gives a beautiful, detailed & stunning view of the canyon. Mileage info added to all trail junctions, plus cummulative mileage for select segments. Trail profile graphs added. Thoroughly reviewed by Park rangers. Detailed topographic & trail map of 308,000 acres in central Grand Canyon. 1:40,000 scale covers 8 USGS quads. 295 miles of trails shown with trail ratings, descriptions & statistics. Most complete & accurate map of the area. Includes contours, shaded relief, UTM grid, hydrography with springs & drinking water, backcountry use zones for permit planning, and other trip information. Printed on waterproof, tear-tough paper. This map covers the huge core of Grand Canyon National Park. This is the area where 99% of visitors travel and where 90% of backcountry trips take place, and where most trails and reliable water sources are. Hope you like the new edition!
Nice map Good map,don't use it when you're lost and need detailed directions,but it gives good overview of the Grand Canyon and the hiking routes there.
perfect Granted, most folks hiking in the GC will already be buying this, but I wanted to note that it's on a weird, thick, rubber-like paper that's waterproof. Very, very nice. I have no doubt that it will hold up well on the trail, which is more than I can say about some other maps I have.
the best... Grand Canyon map This map is fantastic. I'm a visual person, and this map really makes Grand Canyon details clear. (I have two other top-selling Grand Canyon maps.) Only drawback: it is not like others in tough/tear-resistant aspect. I gave the map to my son for our hike to Grand Canyon, and he made a Kinko's color copy of it, then laminated the copy, thereby preserving the original. We used his copy constantly throughout our hike. Besides being a great map, this has tons of info packed into it.
A Great Trail Map of the Grand Canyon I like this trail map. It's much better than National Geographic Road Guide to Grand Canyon National Park (NG Road Guides). This map is easier to read. There is a wealth of information on this map; it's almost a mini-guidebook.
What I like the best about the cartography it Kent Schulte's approach to 3D topo maps. Instead toe usual approach of using shading to light and shadow as if the sun were shining obliquely across the landscape, in this map they use shading to indicate elevation. In terrain as rugged as the Grand Canyon, this approach works better.
a great hiking map This turned out to be a very useful map for planning our trip. I couldn't have asked for anything better, and so colorful and durable too.
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