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: #72513 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-01
• Released on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 168 pages

Customer Reviews

Worst atlas I have ever seen. Useless on backcountry roads
Not very useful. I am a person who likes to discover the back country by using the "hidden" roads. But for this purpose this atlas is useless.
1. All roads have the same color (red). No color distinction for the importance of the road, meaning you don't know what is a farm road, what is a highway.... O.k. the line may be thicker or thinner but why not use a different color?
2. You can not distinguish between paved roads, gravel roads and dirt roads. All roads are solid red lines. I often like to take the unpaved roads. Just for the fun of it. And sometimes I like to know which ones I should not take when hauling my travel trailer.
3. No indication if it is a private road (closed) or if it is a public road.
4. No numbering of small back country dirt roads. You have almost no chance to map the road sign you just see from your car to a road on the map.

If you need a road atlas from Texas that shows you all the necessary "backcountry" details then go with the "The Roads of Texas" from the Texas A&M University. This is not perfect either but much better than the Gazetteer.
The Gazetteer people should have a look at the Benchmark maps. These guys know how to make maps. Unfortunately they don't have one from Texas.

Not as detailed as other DeLorme atlases
I use the DeLorme Gazetteers extensively for retrieving hang glider pilots who fly cross country and often land in somewhat inaccessible places. We swear by them -- they are truly indispensable for us. Maybe it's because Texas is so big, but the detail in this one is not nearly as good as the others. This makes it hard to distinguish those little dirt roads from each other, my main concern. But my BIG complaint is that the pages started to fall out of the perfect binding (all the other states are saddle stapled) almost as soon as I started to use it. I'm hoping that the next printing will fix this!

Fills a niche for travellers needing more detail on statewide scale
This is a very useful atlas if you want a general reference to find your way around on state and county roads across the state. The scale and topography shown are helpful in finding a destination, but there is no way to show enough labels at this level, so while county roads are shown, they are not labelled. Since it covers the whole state it lacks the level of detail required for some areas, particularly densely populated ones that don't have detail maps included. For those you are better off using city maps, or online sources such as USGS topos or web based maps to drill down. (It should also be possible to find more detailed county maps locally.)

There are essentially 3 scales of maps needed: statewide major route maps, statewide maps with county roads, detailed county/city maps. This atlas falls in the middle category, and includes topography.