Southern California Atlas & Gazetteer (Southern & Central California Atlas & Gazetteer) [Paperback]

Delorme Publishing Company (Author), Delorme Mapping Company (Author)

Book Description

Series: Southern & Central California Atlas & Gazetteer | Publication Date: October 1998

The first choice of outdoors enthusiasts. Beautiful, detailed, large-format maps of every state. Perfect for home and office reference, and a must for all your vehicles. Gazetteer information may include: campgrounds, attractions, historic sites & museums, recreation areas, trails, freshwater fishing site & boat launches, canoe trips or scenic drives. Categories vary by state

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DeLorme has been directly responsible for many of the major technological advances made in the mapping industry over the past 30 years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Delorme; 4th edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899332625
• ISBN-13: 978-0899332628
• Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 10.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (404 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,618,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #42 in Books > Education & Reference > Atlases & Maps > United States

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The 'Orange Map Book' Rocks, July 23, 2001

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Bruce Crocker "agnostictrickster" (Whittier, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Southern & Central California Atlas & Gazetteer: Detailed Topographic Maps, Back Roads, Outdoor Recreation, GPS Grids (Paperback)

The Southern and Central California Atlas and Gazetteer by DeLorme always travels with me on my frequent road and rock-hounding trips in SoCal. These maps are a cross between road maps and topo maps and may or may not be what you need. If you want a standard road atlas, you will probably find the contour lines and dirt road details distracting. For these folks I'd recommend Thomas Bro's California map book or a trip to AAA. For folks who know what 7 1/2 minute quadrangle they'll be exploring, I suggest you visit the USGS map sales room at the Menlo Park office [it's self-serve...I always spend at least 3 or 4 hours pouring over the topos] and find the specific quadrangle you need. I generally use this atlas on trips when I'm going to visit areas I've never been to before. I need more details than the standard road atlas offers, but I usually don't buy the USGS topos for an area unless I intend to go back and spend some time at that location. This is the atlas that guides me when I first visit a new rock-hounding site. My friends and I refer to the atlas as the 'orange map book' since the old editions had an orange cover. I'm on my third copy [but I keep my older trashed copies for all the annotations I've made in them]. As any experienced map user knows, no one set of maps will work for all purposes. I recommend you add this atlas to your map reference library.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Style OK But Not Great, August 2, 2005

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D. Severson "mapreader" (Deerfield, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Utah Atlas & Gazetteer (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I have been a huge fan of DeLorme State Atlas and Gazetteer books for 20+ years. I will never plan a trip without one. I find them absolutely indispensable and have them with me on any car trip, period. I do however have a preference for the older style of mapping used on the earlier editions. I used to own an old Utah Atlas and Gazetteer and much preferred it to the new one. The enhanced topo information and colorations are neat but the actual road mappings have a new style that are annoying to me. It is much harder with longer dashed lines for unimproved roads to determine whether the road intersects another one. Anyone who does backroading in Utah knows that when a road is near another on the map does not mean they intersect. One road could be 1000 feet below another and both will dead-end. It is not fun to plan a trip not being sure whether your road goes through. Although I still like the maps, I feel the need to have another topo source for backroads. I wish DeLorme would update their Atlas and Gazeteers in the old format rather than the 'slick' newer style.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best local map collection of California, March 25, 1999

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This review is from: Southern California Atlas & Gazetteer (Southern & Central California Atlas & Gazetteer) (Paperback)

Sure, the Thomas Bros. guide is mandatory for navigating L.A., but once you head out into the forests or desert, be sure to bring the only map book you'll need... The SoCal Atlas & Gazetteer! Historical spots, campgrounds, hiking trails... it's all there