I hope everyone is having a safe and healthy summer! With no opportunity to go on international trips, it’s a great time for Americans to stay local and visit their nearby parks.  (International visitors: we’ll see you next year.) I’ve been updating pages with new map upgrades, adding a few dozen within the last week, with many more to come. I have to say, the National Park Service is getting better and better at publishing visually-pleasing and interesting maps. Take a look at some of the recent map edition updates: Compare the new Lassen Volcanic National Park brochure map on the left w ..read more

I hope everyone’s summer has gotten off to a great start full of some grand national park adventures! Personally I’ve paid visits to Canyonlands, Arches, and Rocky Mountain national parks over the last couple months, but sadly got snowed out of a recent trip to Colorado National Monument. So I’ve been busy, but got a chance to create a handful of new pages for you as I’ve crossed the 1,700 map threshold: Montezuma Castle Maps. Ever been to Montezuma Castle National Monument? This small park is just off I-17 between Flagstaff and Phoenix and makes a nice stop-off if you’ve never been. Pearl Har ..read more

Since my last update, I’ve added another five parks to this site. But before I introduce those pages as I traditionally do in these updates, I wanted to instead share with you a couple non-map pages I’ve created. The first is Operation: Thank A Ranger. OK, maybe that’s a silly name. Whatever. I created this new page after receiving an email last week from a site visitor that included the following: My fellow co-workers and I are concerned about the future of our national parks — specifically regarding their funding and land protection. We are finding ways/places to donate both our ti ..read more

Hey, look at that! Just a week since my last update. I know web traffic will be picking up as we get close to summer, so I’m trying to make a number of behind-the-scenes tweaks and fixes to make sure things are working smoothly. I’ve added a few pages since the last update: Here’s a completely brand new type of page: National Trails maps. The National Park Service manages a bunch of National Scenic and National Historic trails, many of which extend through several states. Instead of creating each trail on a separate page (which I will likely get to later), for now I put them all on a single pa ..read more

Since my last update post about six weeks ago, I’ve added a grand total of…… one new park page. That doesn’t seem like much. But that’s because I’ve been busy hard at work adding over 200 new maps to parks I’ve previously created pages for. That’s right – I don’t just put up a page once and consider it finished; I continually add more and more maps to each page as I discover additional maps. So clearly, there’s way too many updates for me to list here, as the majority of my map pages have been updated with new ones. In particular, you’ll find a ton of new geologic maps, for those like me ..read more

Happy 2017, everyone! I started this site just over three years ago now, and am pretty pleased with how things have progressed. Three years ago on this date, I had all of 261 maps on 27 pages. Today I have 1,249 maps on 114 park pages. Sure, you could argue that I should have much more than that considering all the time that’s passed since then, but I’ve moved a few times, changed jobs, and had a relatively busy personal life. Cut me some slack! This site will probably never be paying my bills, so it’ll remain just a free-time project for me. OK, new updates: Rainbow Bridge Maps and Timpanogo ..read more

I hope everyone’s been having a good winter holiday season so far! I’m happy to report that I’ve created a few new pages, putting me over 1,200 maps for the first time. Although it’s not a heavily-visited park — it’s way down on the Mexican border in Arizona — I dug up 11 maps for the Organ Pipe Cactus maps page. Although I wouldn’t recommend a summer visit, the desert can be beautiful in the spring! I unfortunately don’t have much yet for Hovenweep maps, but I’m hoping I’ll have more soon. There are some incredible parks in this part of the country for those fascinated by human stories ..read more

First, I’m sorry the updates have gotten a bit slow lately – it’s summer! I’m not fancy enough to make my living off the web, so I work a regular full-time job and put in time on this site when I have free time. So when the weather is nice and it’s hiking and camping season, I’m outside soaking up the mountains and sun rather than sitting on my laptop on the couch. I hope you understand! (If you’re reading this site, there’s a good chance you’re same way.) Anyway, I just wanted to let you in on a number of small updates I’ve done recently: I replaced the campground maps on the Lassen ..read more

I hope everyone is having a safe and healthy summer! With no opportunity to go on international trips, it’s a great time for Americans to stay local and visit their nearby parks.  (International visitors: we’ll see you next year.) I’ve been updating pages with new map upgrades, adding a few dozen within the last week, with many more to come. I have to say, the National Park Service is getting better and better at publishing visually-pleasing and interesting maps. Take a look at some of the recent map edition updates: Compare the new Lassen Volcanic National Park brochure map on the left w ..read more

I realize this is my first posting in quite a while, but have no fear — the site isn’t dead! As life has gotten busy, I’ve been more in “maintenance mode,” updating pages with current maps rather than creating new pages. I realize I’m a little behind, as we have two new national parks since my last update: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is now Indiana Dunes National Park, and Jefferson Expansion National Memorial is now Gateway Arch National Park. Stay tuned! What I’m especially pleased with is that I can finally remove this note I’ve had on the Yosemite maps page for over three years: Pleas ..read more