Customer Reviews

Sangre de Cristo Wilderness & Great Sand Dunes National Park Trail Map 3rd Edition

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I got this map based on the Amazon reviews and found that it was less than what I had expected. It is a large scale map of the Colorado Sangre de Cristo mountains printed on good quality paper. But... it doesn't even show the northern 30 square miles of the Sangre de Cristo wilderness despite claiming to show the "Northern Sangre de Cristo" mountain area. It doesn't differentiate between public and private land. It doesn't accurately show where motorized vehicles are prohibited. The trail desciptions are very brief and basically just summaries.
For the price of this one map you could do about as well getting maps from the US Forest Service (San Isabel National Forest) and the US Bureau of Land Management (Canon City and Blanca Peak), although they aren't as large a scale and not as thick paper.

We've used this map extensively as we've explored Great Sand Dunes and vicinity, and found it to be accurate, easy to read, and durable. The mini-descriptions of numerous hikes are quite good (after all, there isn't much room on a map to go into tremendous detail). We spent over 2 years exploring the Park, Preserve, and surrounding Sangre de Cristo Mountains while doing research for a guidebook for Great Sand Dunes and vicinity, and this was our map of choice (even better than that name-brand map that came out more recently).

I love this map. So detailed. So up to date. Very narrow in its scope (i.e. just the Sangres which is what I wanted), but concise in the information. Very happy to have found it.

Fantastic map of the Sangres. Definately recommended.