Benchmark New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas [Paperback]

Benchmark Maps (Author)

Book Description

Series: Benchmark State Atlases | Publication Date: June 15, 2002

The New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas, the first atlas in the Benchmark series, has forever changed the way people see and use state atlases. Now in its third edition, this award winning Atlas (1995 Best Atlas Design, American Congress of Surveying and Mapping) uses Benchmark's exclusive Landscape Maps™, -- a unique cartographic style that combines terrain shading (relief) and altitude coloration.

The twenty-four pages of Landscape Maps™ show the topography and road network in a way that's both beautiful and practical at a scale of 1" = 8.3 miles (1:525,000). Roads are classified by importance--from Interstate highways to dirt roads--and all populated settlements and locales are shown and included in a comprehensive index . Each page has generous overlap with adjoining pages, and the new fourth edition includes all of the new recently completed four-lane divided highways.

A separate section in the Atlas clearly shows ten different classifications of public lands, including national forests, national parks, BLM and Indian lands at the same scale as the Landscape Maps™ (1:525,000). The Atlas also includes street maps for Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Roswell and Las Cruces and nine pages of recreation information.

Editorial Reviews

Review

For navigating around the state, my favorite map is the New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas. -- Bob Julyan. Albuquerque Journal, April 29, 1999.

The road network, from interstates to roads suitable only for four-wheel-drive vehicles, is clearly shown. -- RV Traveling. The Sacramento Bee, March 15, 1996.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Benchmark Maps; 4th edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929591429
• ISBN-13: 978-0929591421
• Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 10.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,477,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource, February 28, 2005

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A. Matras (Huntsville, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Benchmark New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas (Paperback)

I have seen other New Mexico atlases, and I feel that this one is the best. While the scale is larger than some of the others, this is appropriate because the others show too many roads. Many times, the other atlases show roads that do not seem to exist or show the incorrect numbers. New Mexico Road and Recreation Atlas is very accurate as far as I can tell. I highly recommend it.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Scale is too large to be very helpful, June 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Benchmark New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas (Paperback)

Many roads are completely missing in this ill-conceived New Mexico Atlas. I'm afraid that the idea of having two different map styles for each area reduced the level of detail so much.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good map that could be much easier to use, October 6, 2005

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Mike Smith (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Benchmark New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas (Paperback)

I like this map, but it could be much easier to use. It doesn't have any sort of easy-to-use system, aside from a basic index, and so any goodness it contains often goes wasted.
It does have a lot of features of southern New Mexico that other maps don't, and a lot of dirt roads that others don't, but it's not necessarily complete.
I'd recommend the New Mexico DeLorme map over this one, but used together the two can be very helpful. (Unless you're lost in the maze of cattle roads off of County Highway 52A, off of North 14 between Madrid and Golden. In that case, both maps will fail you, you will make the mistake of using a windmill for a landmark--there are dozens--and you will drive around until you run out of gas. You'll have fun though.)