| New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas (Streetfinder Atlas) |  | Creator: Benchmark Maps
Publisher: Benchmark Maps
Category: Book
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Seller: bay-city-books
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3,603,429
Media: Hardcover
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 15.5 x 11.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 0929591267
Dewey Decimal Number: 912.789
EAN: 9780929591261
ASIN: 0929591267
Publication Date: November 1995
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Product Description
The New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas, the first atlas in the Benchmark series, has forever changed the way people see and use state atlases. Now in its third edition, this award winning Atlas (1995 Best Atlas Design, American Congress of Surveying and Mapping) uses Benchmark's exclusive Landscape Maps™, -- a unique cartographic style that combines terrain shading (relief) and altitude coloration. The twenty-four pages of Landscape Maps™ show the topography and road network in a way that's both beautiful and practical at a scale of 1" = 8.3 miles (1:525,000). Roads are classified by importance--from Interstate highways to dirt roads--and all populated settlements and locales are shown and included in a comprehensive index . Each page has generous overlap with adjoining pages, and the new fourth edition includes all of the new recently completed four-lane divided highways. A separate section in the Atlas clearly shows ten different classifications of public lands, including national forests, national parks, BLM and Indian lands at the same scale as the Landscape Maps™ (1:525,000). The Atlas also includes street maps for Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Roswell and Las Cruces and nine pages of recreation information.
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 An excellent resource March 1, 2005
A. Matras (Huntsville, Alabama USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have seen other New Mexico atlases, and I feel that this one is the best. While the scale is larger than some of the others, this is appropriate because the others show too many roads. Many times, the other atlases show roads that do not seem to exist or show the incorrect numbers. New Mexico Road and Recreation Atlas is very accurate as far as I can tell. I highly recommend it.
Hooked on Benchmark September 4, 2005
Dale E. Caldwell (Oak Harbor, Wa United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It started for me with the purchase of Benchmark's Washington State road & recreation atlas at Costco. Now I'm the owner of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, and California, which I bought from Amazon at approximately the same price offered by Costco, but Costco outlets only offer the state they're in or immediately surrounding. Lets face it, I'm a map junkie, a roadtrip-a-holic who is always on the lookout for the back road to anywhere. That being said, I try to stay on pavement, at least 98% of the time and am a little color (ok, a lot) blind so most maps with the color coded roads don't help much. The Benchmark maps use dashes and superior detail to make road conditions and names obvious - even for me. If you like to keep to the interstate, you have no need for these, but if you're like me and anxious to explore the outback, buy Benchmark maps.
Quite simply the finest New Mexico road atlas available. June 14, 1999
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Beautiful, detailed, and loaded with information
 A good map that could be much easier to use October 7, 2005
Mike Smith (Albuquerque, NM)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like this map, but it could be much easier to use. It doesn't have any sort of easy-to-use system, aside from a basic index, and so any goodness it contains often goes wasted.
It does have a lot of features of southern New Mexico that other maps don't, and a lot of dirt roads that others don't, but it's not necessarily complete.
I'd recommend the New Mexico DeLorme map over this one, but used together the two can be very helpful. (Unless you're lost in the maze of cattle roads off of County Highway 52A, off of North 14 between Madrid and Golden. In that case, both maps will fail you, you will make the mistake of using a windmill for a landmark--there are dozens--and you will drive around until you run out of gas. You'll have fun though.)
 More local maps would be helpful June 17, 2005
T. Hartman (Washington, DC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I used this map for a weeklong trip around north-central New Mexico, and it was very useful. The layout of the maps is different than any atlas I've used - big improvement there. My main criticism is that, as a "recreation atlas," it should show you more detail around key recreation areas (e.g., Pecos Wilderness). I thought it would be more similar to a Delorme atlas with detailed hiking landmarks (water towers, powerlines, etc.). It'll get you to the entrance and give you some main forest roads, but I would've prefered some more details and close-up relief maps.
Overall, it was a good atlas for highway and biway driving, but not the outdoors guide I was looking for.
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