delorme topo north america 10 printing scale

But the full colour, presence of topographic lines, etc., helps you get a general feel for an area. Not accurate beyond belief, as the USGS-based Delorme atlases are, but good enough to give you a lot more information than the Backroads Mapbooks. They're mostly green in style, glossy, and cost about CAN$5. They have one for the (Canadian) Okanagan, The Kooteneys, The Caribou, etc. There's a map company based in Vancouver, I forget the name, but after you cross the border you'll see their maps for sale at gas stations, etc.

Stop by your local pilots store and take a look, it would probably be quite helpful. I use the US flight charts all the time, great for overall relief, elevation, with pretty good RR detail. I've never seen the flight chart for BC, but I'm pretty sure it has the RRs (maybe I looked at it once in the pilot's store while railfanning Seattle), I wish I'd have bought one for my *5* years there. The gas station in Boston Bar sells them, for instance.

You can buy this at gas stations, especially in areas where people are going hunting, fishing, etc. It shows the coal line to Tumbler Ridge, BC Rail up to Fort Nelson, etc. The 'Atlas of British Columbia' or some such, about 40 colour, glossy sheets for the whole province, shows all the RR lines with pretty fair detail for the lack of resolution overall. You can buy them at most small-town gas stations. But, if you've driven around BC without anything resembling a decent map, you'll get real excited real fast about Backwoods. If you're used to DeLorme's, you won't be excited about Backroads. But, theyre in 2-tone print (or maybe 3 or 4 tone, but no colour), and they show no topography, and all the information has to be taken with a grain of salt. I found my way into the Black Canyon on the merits of the Backroads Mapbook, which I would never have been able to do otherwise. Show the RRs to pretty good detail, and even if the roads aren't exact, it gives you a pretty good idea of were the roads are. Just break down and buy them all for the areas you might be travelling in. I did a writeup on this but the search engine only goes back to March, '01, and it was before that.

Delorme topo north america 10 printing scale