Less than two weeks between updates this time! Back in February I made my first update after 11 months and thought I’d be able to spend more time on the site. Well, sadly that didn’t happen, as it took until two weeks ago to make my next update. Yet here I am now, with another one for you! I’m approaching the end of the 59 national parks and will likely be starting soon on national seashores, national monuments, and national recreation areas.

This update has three new pages: Theodore Roosevelt National Park maps, Virgin Islands maps, and Great Basin National Park maps. In particular, I especially like the Virgin Islands page as it contains maps for the park but also locations on other islands. The maps are much more colorful and attractive than the typical park map; I hope this trend continues with future National Park Service maps.

Thanks so much for your patience!

After a long hiatus, I added some new parks today. Here are the new five:

• Cuyahoga Valley National Park
• Channel Islands National Park
• Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
• Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
• Hot Springs National Park

What’s my excuse for taking so long in between updates? Well, I don’t have a great one to be honest, other than the fact that life is busier than when I first started this site. The magnitude of the project can seem overwhelming to me at times, especially considering I still want to create dozens of new pages and add many more maps to the pages I’ve already created. With so much work to do, it is pretty daunting when I just have a scattered few hours here and there.

But I have been seeing my traffic numbers climbing this summer, which gave me a kick in the rear to start putting in some more time again. Can I keep it up this time? I hope so. Thanks for your patience as this site very slowly comes together. 🙂

I know it’s been a while since I’ve made an update here, but life has a tendency to get busy from time-to-time. I’m now living in a different state in a new job, so it’s taken a bit to settle in and start getting some free time again. My dream is to still finish adding in all the national parks, and then start in on national monuments, recreation areas, seashores, etc. However, free time is a prerequisite for that – I don’t exactly earn any money from this site, so “real life” always comes first. (Note that I *do* make enough off the Amazon referrals to cover my website hosting fees, so I appreciate anyone who has purchased something after clicking on one of the Amazon links. You’ve helped at least ensure that I haven’t *lost* money on creating this website!)

My recent updates were mostly behind-the-scenes maintenance, such as fixing broken links and such. However, I am pleased to have gotten both Arches National Park Maps and Olympic National Park Maps updated with new maps; my first new updates in almost a year.

Here’s hoping I can get back on a regular updating schedule once again!

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.

Now that a lot of the “big” parks are finished, I’m working my way through some of the less-visited parks. At this point I don’t have quite as many maps for them, but I’m sure I’ll find more later to upload.

The Crater Lakes map page currently just has the two maps from the park brochure. I haven’t found any other public domain maps yet, which is unfortunate, although the official park map is pretty well designed! One of the best-looking brochure maps I’ve come across so far.

I’ve got started on Wind Cave maps with some cool maps of the cave interior, along with the park brochure maps. The maps of Wind Cave interior put the Carlsbad Caverns maps page to shame; it’s too bad similar public-domain maps of Carlsbad Caverns don’t seem to exist.