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This site makes extensive use of online maps provided by other web sites, allowing us to concentrate on writing trail descriptions. Although each of these sites provides help information, here are a few suggestions on how they can be used with this site.
Google Maps (maps.google.com) provides location maps and driving directions like several other web sites but with a twist: you can request directions to a latitude/longitude coordinate if you don't know the street address. Trail descriptions on this site give trailhead coordinates so you can request directions from wherever you are coming from.
To get directions, enter your starting location (just a zipcode is fine if you already know how to get to the nearest highway), then the keyword to: followed by the trailhead coordinate, all on the same line.
Since Topozone.com has become a fee service, it will probably be of less interest to hikers. Hopefully www.topozone.com links will continue to work for those who pay the fee and we will attempt to convert our links to use a free service such as Terraserver or Acme Mapper.
There are two collections of historic USGS 15' series scanned maps available, Maptech and UNH. Dates of these maps vary from the late 1800's to mid 1900's. Each map is scanned in 4 sections with wide overlap, but you cannot scroll between sections. Depending on your browser, the whole map segment may initially appear onscreen much too small to read - click on the image to zoom and then scroll to the area you want.
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