Once again, the South American Explorer's Club offers paper maps, both of Machu Picchu and of the Inca Trail. For online maps, there's a good map of the Inca Trail at Infoperu, as well as my own map of the Inca Trail on this site. Wholeo Online books have a sketch map of Machu Picchu, and there's a more precise but unlabelled map available as part of an article about a multimedia feature on Machu Picchu.

Maps can be purchased at any Daniel Boone National Forest office, by mail, or by ordering online. There are separate maps available for the north, south and central portions of the forest. These maps show most Forest Service system roads and trails on a 1/2" = 1 mile scale. Topographical maps are available for $6.00 plus shipping and handling. Ordering information.

With a bubble jet printer, use waterproof paper available from local map or office supply stores; some folks say hairspray works; you can slip them in a zip lock bag; or whitewater retailers often sell materials for keeping river maps dry. Waterproof paper is available for purchase over the internet from www.Lat26inc.com.

We make the maps. You too, can make maps for the GAOC. See the question above, except that making maps is expensive, and it's not easy, and it takes a lot of time.

All the maps you will need to use the trail are included in the PCT Guidebooks, which are available for purchase from our online store. For help finding additional maps, click here.

th Mountain produces topographic maps specifically for hut use. These maps are available from our reservations office at 970-925-5775 and from the 10th Mountain Store (see menu on this page). Official 10th Mountain maps are also sold at a variety of outdoor retailers in Colorado including Front Range REI stores.

image viewer that can decode JPEG and GIF images is needed to display these maps. Most of the images are JPEG images within the 200K to 300K range; however, some of the images are quite large. Many users can have problems with the larger images. This is a result of not having enough memory to view the image; make sure that your web browser is given enough memory.

For large JPEG and GIF map images, the map must be resized to print the entire image (see below). Even after resizing, the quality and legibility of the printed map is dependent upon the quality of your printer. For quickly printing the less detailed maps, you can save the map image file to your hard drive, and then open Microsoft Word. Select Insert from the menu bar, then Picture/File.

Most of the maps scanned by the University of Texas Libraries and served from this web site are in the public domain. No permissions are needed to copy them. You may download them and use them as you wish. We appreciate credit to "University of Texas Libraries" as the source of the scanned images. A few maps are copyrighted, and are clearly marked as such. Any that are copyrighted by The University of Texas are subject to our Materials Usage Guidelines.

Only a small part of our printed map collection has been scanned and made available on the Web. Currently this amounts to more than 11,000 map images. Because we have very limited staff, we are unable to scan in maps for individual users' requests. However, we would like to know what maps you are interested in seeing on our site, and will take this into account as we have time to scan in additional maps. Please note that we are unable to scan in copyrighted maps.

For maps published by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The CIA Maps Catalog is available online. Read the Purchase Information on their web site for details on how to order. Maps published by the National Park Service may be obtained by contacting the parks. The National Park Service web site gives contact information for each park. U. S. Geological Survey topographic and other maps may be purchased from U.S.G.S. and commercial map dealers. See the USGS Store.

The estimated limits of the flooding, or surge inundation, caused by Hurricane Rita. The Rita Recovery Maps graphically show the approximate maximum extent of coastal floodwaters from Rita. Preliminary storm surge elevations. Based on high water marks that were surveyed soon after Hurricane Rita, FEMA developed a general schematic showing the height of the storm surge along the coastline. This information is shown as an estimated range of elevations on each map in the title block.

The state and county maps show the distribution of native and naturalized populations only, not planted or horticultural populations. Plants growing in yards, along streets, or planted in other settings are not included unless they have escaped cultivation and are established in the wild and reproducing spontaneously without the aid of humankind.