I’m always tweaking away, trying to incrementally improve the pages I already have up rather than only focusing on adding new pages. Today was a big change: every single map page now has an interactive Google map in the sidebar!

I realize this might seem pointless; after all, anyone can just google a park and pull up its result on Google Maps. However, I know from experience that this usually isn’t too helpful for driving directions; Google seems to often choose an arbitrary point inside the park to send you to. This results in a lot of visitors blindly following directions to somewhere they don’t actually want to go.

On this site, every single interactive map is centered on a visitor center or major point of interest that you’ll actually want to go to. So go ahead and use the pop-out interactive map for directions – you’ll probably want to actually go there! I’m not going to tell you to follow it blindly, but you now have much less of a chance of getting lost.