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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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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| | Product Details | | Author: | Benchmark Maps | | Paperback: | 112 pages | | Publisher: | Benchmark Maps (Firm) | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2007 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0929591976 | | Product Width: | 262.5 centimeters | | Product Height: | 387.5 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 1.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 15.0 inches | | Package Width: | 10.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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| | Features | _BenchmarkÕs atlas makes it easy to discover the stateÕs world-renowned outdoor recreation and beauty.Detailed maps pinpoint thousands of miles of backcountry roads, trailheads, campgrounds, and hundreds of points of interest.Public lands maps show hunting units, and a recreation guide includes the latest information on campgrounds, RV parks, golf, and boating.Contains 112 pages.
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17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 From Lake Mead to Coronado National Forest, Benchmark delivers! Aug 22, 2008
By The Delite Rancher
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 found the following review helpful:
 Not Useful, too big a scale used Nov 04, 2010
By Riccardo B
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 found the following review helpful:
 Barely usable Sep 20, 2009
By BCM
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.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
One of the most detailed map books on the market May 02, 2009
By J. Levine
"AZ Helishot"
I have owned 2 of these books. They get so much use on my travels I wear them out. There is always a copy of one in the BLM fire truck...it is USEFUL! An EXTREMELY comprehensive book on the state of Arizona. Main roads as well as little known dirt roads are well represented. Relief maps, points of interest, highway exit numbers, as well as peak names and other landmarks make these pages as close to USGS topo maps you are going to get. The back of the atlas has metro area maps that have all the main roads in a metro area. Benchmark makes one of these for almost every state in the US...I own 12 different states in the West.
If you hike, mountain bike, travel back roads, love landscape photography, go camping, hunt, or fish...this atlas is almost REQUIRED!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good atlas - two sections unnecessary Apr 22, 2011
By Karl S. Fredrickson
This is a good atlas that will probably suffice for most people's purposes, including backcountry exploration and hiking. The "Public Lands" section is very useful, showing boundaries of BLM, state, national forest, national park and tribal lands, as well as the boundaries of wilderness areas. It also has a section of Sonora that will be useful if you plan on driving into Mexico towards Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point). My main complaint - I agree with the other reviewers that the scale is too small. The only difference between the "Landscape" and "Public Lands" sections is that the Landscape section is colored by elevation and the Public Lands section is colored by land ownership. Literally everything else on the map, including contour lines, is identical, so the Landscape section is basically just the Public Lands section with information thrown away. They should have just gotten rid of the Landscape section and doubled the scale! Hopefully Benchmark will address this in a future edition.
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