Happy
Campers: National Parks Maps Available
Online
From
The Atlantic Citylab
Over
1,000 high-resolution national park maps are now available to view, save, and
download for free. The Web page is not
officially affiliated with the National Park Service, but the site offers an
organized resource for accessing the maps.
Matt
Holly, a ranger at the National Park Service’s Natural Resource Stewardship
Science Directorate in Colorado, has been uploading the maps since 2013. The site includes general park maps, trail
maps, topographic maps, camping maps, nautical charts, and guides to local
geology and archaeology. The maps are organized alphabetically and by state.
The
Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) on the
second floor of Bracken Library is a federal government depository, so it
receives national park maps and nautical charts from the National Park Service,
the Department of the Interior, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other
government map publishers. The maps in
the GRMC are available for circulation for two weeks or longer.
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