Hot off the presses!

New pages

The Alcatraz maps page was tricky, as I didn’t know what to call it. Technically Alcatraz is just one small part of the much larger Golden Gate National Recreation Area, so it shouldn’t really get its own page since it isn’t its own national park site. But really, who that’s looking for a map of Alcatraz will do a search for Golden Gate? So the 4 Alcatraz maps get its own page. This was a practical decision, if not technically correct.

I got a request to include more historic sites in the northeast U.S., so I added the Valley Forge maps page with 11 maps. Technically the request was for battlefields, and while Valley Forge doesn’t quite fit the bill, I had a lot of maps for it so it seemed like a good start.

I also had a visitor point out I didn’t have any Iowa parks yet. This was true. But not anymore, as Effigy Mounds maps is now in the books! 4 Effigy Mounds maps to start with for Iowa. Maybe Herbert Hoover National Historic Site will come soon to give it some company.

Another request I received was for Women’s Rights National Historical Park. I’m pretty lacking in the historical park category – and really don’t have any urban parks yet – so here’s 3 maps for the Women’s Rights maps page.

For the rest of you who wrote in with requests: don’t worry, they’re coming too!

Page updates

Some old pages got new updates. My biggest overhaul was to Yellowstone maps, adding 15 new maps to bring it up to 37 total. Grand Canyon maps wasn’t left out either – I found some new maps of North Rim (and did some major page reorganization), leaving me with 22 Grand Canyon maps.

I had to give Alaska some love, so both Glacier Bay maps and Katmai maps got a couple new maps each, giving each page a total of 6 maps… so far. I hope to add more later.

And a new map each to each of the following pages: Craters of the Moon maps, Mount Rushmore maps, Hawaii Volcanoes maps, and Indiana Dunes maps.

Other changes

I also had a request to add social media share buttons to my map pages to make them easier to share trip-planning information with friends. I actually tried this out when I first started my site, but ended up removing them since I felt it looked spammy and just increased page load time. But after seeing the way the Smithsonian article about my site spread through social media, I decided to give it another shot. This time, however, I put the buttons on the bottom of each page. While that might mean things get shared less since not everyone will find them, I don’t like having it on top since I want the content to come first.