Yes, a big update for you as I’ve created five new park pages in the last week. While some are a bit bare bones for now, others I was able to flesh out with a variety of maps.

For Mesa Verde Maps, so far I have four uploaded: the main park unigrid map as well as three detail maps showing specific park locations and the various hiking trails, viewpoints, and ruins in each area.

My Petrified Forest Maps haul is a bit weak so far with just two maps – the main park brochure map and a regional map showing the surrounding area. I’m hoping to find some more later.

I haven’t found much yet for Isle Royale Maps either, but the main park map sure is a beauty – it’s one of the nicest looking ones so far. I’m beginning to think that maybe I’m just biased and inherently find any map with lots of blue to look superior to the others. But that’s not fair to the parks not near large bodies of water!

I had a conundrum with maps for Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. The two parks are actually managed together as one – effectively it is one national park, with one website, staff, administration, etc., called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park(s). However, visitors typically don’t pick up on this – as far as the average person knows, it’s “Sequoia National Park” and “Kings Canyon National Park.” So how should I create the pages? In the end, I decided to just create nearly identical pages for both, repeating the same content on each of them, although presented differently. I felt like this would make the most sense to web viewers – I imagined some confused viewer wondering “Where’s Kings Canyon National Park?”, not knowing that it was actually listed under “S.” So hopefully two pages will make most sense for people, though it’ll be more work for me to update two instead of just one.

I made some other minor changes over the last week – some new maps on Big Bend Maps and also for Joshua Tree Maps.