Product Description

The first choice of outdoors enthusiasts. Beautiful, detailed, large-format maps of every state. Perfect for home and office reference, and a must for all your vehicles. Gazetteer information may include: campgrounds, attractions, historic sites & museums, recreation areas, trails, freshwater fishing site & boat launches, canoe trips or scenic drives. Categories vary by state

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #477224 in Books
• Size: N. CALIFORNIA
• Brand: Delorme
• Published on: 2000-07-01
• Released on: 2003-07-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 127 pages

About the Author
DeLorme has been directly responsible for many of the major technological advances made in the mapping industry over the past 30 years.

Customer Reviews

Very helpful; has an idiosyncracy
The Northern California DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer is very useful if you're planning to travel on paved back roads or major dirt fire roads. But the scale of the maps, at 1:150,000, is too large to show the detail needed for certain outdoor activities. If you're mountain biking or hiking in remote terrain or on minor trails, you should get additional, smaller-scale maps for navigation and orientation.

There's an idiosyncracy that I hope DeLorme will correct in future printings: the atlas shows contours and elevations in meters. Why it does this I don't know, given that the Nevada and Colorado DeLorme atlases use feet. Because the U.S. remains committed to standard English measures rather than the metric system, presumably most users will want to work in feet and will have altimeters and global positioning devices set to the English system. It's irritating to have to convert to meters when using the atlas.

These comments pertain to the fifth edition, second printing (2000), of the atlas. It's been updated regularly in the past, so my observations may become obsolete.

A Backroads MUST.
I am a geologist studying the volcanic rocks of Northern California. I am also a 23 year old woman who, while out in the backroads by herself, was not looking to get lost.

This atlas proved to be the best piece of field equipment I bought. Time and time again I was able to find linked, back-country roads on the map that at times were not even named on site! This allowed me to drive as close as possible to each field location, minimizing the amount of time hiking into each site & therefore maximizing my time out in California. I highly recommend these atlases for anyone interested in biking, hiking, or exploring Northern California's backcountry.

Northern California Atlas & Gazetteer
Great resource for the camper and hiker. A little heavy to carry as topo maps; however, just as effective. Elevation in metric is a negative.