Benchmark Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas - 6th edition [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007

Arizona's landscape is interspersed with solitary mountain peaks, strange and beautiful geological formations and saguaro cacti holding up their arms. The `land where time stands still' is also a thriving oasis with enormous outdoor recreation potential. The 6th edition of Benchmark's Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas is the one guide needed to explore every corner of this magnificent state. All-new Landscape and Public Lands maps show complete road detail, classed by use and surface, and the Recreation Guide now features a dedicated Grand Canyon section and several new recreation categories.

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The all-new 6th edition features Landscape and Public Lands Maps with more detail and improved clarity, complete back road information, page-to-page overlap and large type. The Recreation Guide is improved considerably with a new Grand Canyon section and updated categorized listings. Categories include campgrounds and RV Parks, National and State Parks and Monuments, museums, historic sites, and fishing and hunting areas. Also included is complete metro coverage of the greater Phoenix and Tucson area. Maps and recreation information is field-checked to Benchmark's exacting standards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Benchmark Maps (Firm); 6th edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929591976
• ISBN-13: 978-0929591971
• Product Dimensions: 15 x 10.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Lake Mead to Coronado National Forest, Benchmark delivers!, August 21, 2008

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This review is from: Benchmark Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas - 6th edition (Paperback)

As an avid off-roader, I look for remote, under-the-radar types of places. Fortunately, my home state is one of the best places for 4x4 wandering. Anybody can hook up with some Glamis types and rip-it-up at a local sand dune. For me, wilderness means getting far out of Phoenix, driving long distances on dusty back roads and eventually finding that perfectly lonely camp site. Enter the Benchmark Maps' "Arizona Road & Recreational Atlas." For browsing alone, it has been the impetus for multiple back country trips. When used with Google Earth and a guidebook, this tool has been perfect for triangulating locations and showing routes. The DeLorme Atlas is the obvious comparison. The DeLorme is also a good atlas, but I really appreciate the "readability" of the Benchmark. The colors are in harmony with desert esthetics while better expressing elevation. Unlike in previous editions, the 6th is split into two main sections. There is a landscape map section and another for public lands. Most folks won't need more than the conventional landscape maps. If you're doing a week long trip into an unknown section of back country, it's always helpful to know if you're on private property or public lands. Given that you're allowed to do different things on the lands of different agencies, it's helpful to take a glance and know if you're in Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Reservation or on good ol' BLM land. This atlas shows tons of back roads, GPS grids, a recreational guide for the newbies and legends that are clear to read. As an added plus, it shows additional maps for getting around in urban Tuscon and Phoenix. When exploring the desert or getting around in the city, the 6th edition of Benchmarks' atlas is about all anyone will need to get around in the Grand Canyon State.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Useful, too big a scale used, November 4, 2010

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Riccardo B (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Benchmark Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas - 6th edition (Paperback)

Main complaint:
The scale on the pages is 400,000 to 1. This means you lose A LOT of detail.
I have the Nevada (280,000 to 1) & Utah (250,000 to 1) map books by Benchmark and the difference in usefulness is striking.

If you have the chance, take a look at the Utah vs New Mexico or Arizona books to see for yourself.

Rather than have the large scale "landscape" maps and then fine scale detail maps (as they do with the Nevada and Utah books) Benchmark just uses the same scale, same maps and just changes the background information.
All four of the "four corner" map books should be at the same scale, all under 300,000 to one.

I wrote directly to Benchmark with feedback concerning this and other issues and they could not bother with a reply. I will think twice before buying their products again.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Barely usable, September 20, 2009

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This review is from: Benchmark Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas - 6th edition (Paperback)

Benchmark guides are nice, but the scale in this book compared to Utah or Oregon makes it nearly unusable. The colors and road conditions are great, but I'd recommend Delorme's atlas over this one for Arizona any day. Many roads that are captured in other atlas's are not contained in this book.