Product Description

This National Geographic Road Atlas - Adventure Edition includes detailed maps of all 50 states plus Canada and Mexico. The outstanding collection of road maps includes scenic routes, historic sites, recreation information, and thousands of points of interest.

This unique Adventure Edition features America's top 100 adventure destinations chosen by the editors of National Geographic Adventure Magazine, with top outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, cycling, bird-watching, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, paddle sports, and climbing. This 168-page atlas provides accurate, up-to-date information, and includes profiles of 24 of the most popular national parks. Spiral bound for ease-of-use, and protected with a durable, road-tough plastic cover.


Approximately 11" x 15" spiral bound with plastic protective cover.

The Adventure Edition Road Atlas is an excellent companion to GPS and National Geographic's detailed Trails Illustrated maps.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12568 in Books
• Brand: National Geographic
• Published on: 2004-09
• Released on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 168 pages

About the Author
Founded in 1915 as the Cartographic Group, the first division of the National Geographic Society, National Geographic Maps has been responsible for illustrating the world around us through the art and science of mapmaking.
Today, National Geographic Maps continues this mission by creating the world s best wall maps, recreation maps, atlases, and globes which inspire people to care about and explore their world. All proceeds from the sale of National Geographic maps go to support the Society s non-profit mission to increase global understanding and promote conservation of our planet through exploration, research, and education.

Customer Reviews

Beautifully drawn maps, though a tad bit small
The maps are detailed and easily the most beautiful of any road atlas on the market. The fact that the maps were done all digitally means extra crisp lines and accurate placement of roads, attractions and places. The "Adventure" section in the front is interesting, though not terribly useful if you're like me and collect a stack of in-depth guidebooks before going somewhere. My only negative comment is that the maps seem a bit small. Rand McNally's are bigger. The type is normal size and easy to read, but I wish each state occupied 2 pages. There's another version of this atlas available that's a "big type" version that you may want to consider. This is a minor complaint though because I love how beautiful these maps are and enthusiastically give this atlas 4 stars.

Maybe my hopes were too high. I'd give it an almost or a good idea without enough meat.
We bought this book for a cross country drive because the typical road trip books are filled with "kitchy Americana", something of little interest to my wife and I. I guess I hoped for a bit more with respect to the adventure aspect. It was basically a couple of really good magazine articles and an atlas. Don't get me wrong, what is there is very good. It's just not as much as I hoped there might be.

The book contains the following:

1) 100 single paragraph descriptions of Adventurous locations around the country categorized by region (east, central, mountain, and pacific) and then by type (hiking/backpacking, climbing, paddling, winter sports, biking, and birding).

2) 24 National Park descriptions, each consisting of a photo, a map, a series of factoids, and about three paragraphs.

3) A standard atlas published in 2004.


-Paul

Perfect guide for road Tourist in USA/Canada
I last bought the National Geographic Road Atlas in 1998 for a road trip in the USA/Canada and found it to be excellent. I recently purchased the current version and it is even better with a section devoted to top adventures and national Parks in the USA. I have looked at other road atlases and they don't even come close. For anyone looking at travelling to the USA, Canada or Mexico and hiring a car, this is the atlas to get!