Lawyers of New Mexico

New Mexico Atlas & Gazetteer

Description

The first choice of outdoors enthusiasts. Beautiful, detailed, large-format maps of every state. Perfect for home and office reference, and a must for all your vehicles. Gazetteer information may include: campgrounds, attractions, historic sites & museums, recreation areas, trails, freshwater fishing site & boat launches, canoe trips or scenic drives. Categories vary by state

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-05-02
Summary: "Don't wast your money"

I have used the DeLorme Atlas & Gazeteers for years and love them. In Kentucky , my home state, I have used it for biking, hiking, camping, canoeing, and finding my way around the back roads, and it is so detailed as to show what I know are old farm roads. I have also used them for negotiating the lesser known areas of Virginia and N. Carolina for the same purposes. I have used them for planning extreme back country hiking and camping trips in Colorado, as well as seat of the pants four wheeling. Now that I am spending more time in New Mexico instead of Colorado, I purchased the New Mexico Atlas & Gazeteer expecting the same quality publication. What a surprise and disappointment. As I searched for the lakes I wanted to visit this summer, I began having a difficult time finding anything, and when I did find them, they were no bigger than pinheads on the map. I then noticed the scale of these maps was twice that of all the other Gazeteers. They were 1" = 2.4 miles more or less (2.3, 2.4, 2.4, 2.5), while the New Mexico one is 1" = 4.7 miles, almost twice the scale. If you have had nor prior experience with these maps and are a caual traveller, then it might be OK for you. If however, you have used them in the past for finding your way through the boondocks and planning back country adventures, keep your money and find some other local maps, or wait until DeLorme gets it together and reissues the New Mexico one. It is like a Gazeteer light.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-04-11
Summary: "Definitely NOT the best out there"

If you like to travel on dirt roads like me, then the DeLorme is almost useless, I have been using the Benchmark Atlases for years and have found that nothing even comes close to the detail of those, unfortunatley they only make them for the western states. The Delorme's show back roads as a small line that is barely visible to the naked eye, and it's up to you to travel them to figure out if they are paved, dirt, gravel, 4wd, forestry or if they even exist any longer.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-02-22
Summary: "A Step Down..."

Essentially worthless without the topo lines, unless you are simply looking for a common road map with larger print. I can get the same info using a highway map from the gas station. These atlases used to be great: they had all the elevation info, lots of details (mines, trails, ghost towns, etc) for those who travelled into out-of-the-way places on backroads, hiking, biking, off-roading, etc. It seems Delorme has decided to make it simply a giant highway/road/city map. It doesn't make much sense, since we can get those for much cheaper and without carrying around the wasted 71 extra pages. I see the older Delorme Atlas with topo lines is going for $576 used here on Amazon. I wonder why that is? Oh yeah... this version doesn't cut it. Buy the old one if you can find it for under five hundred dollars. :)

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-02-10
Summary: "Keep your gazetteer handy!"

I never travel the west without one of these. I just wish this one for New Mexico had contour lines. Otherwise, it's great.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-03-14
Summary: "Not perfect, but the best atlas in print for New Mexico"

I also own the Benchmark atlas of New Mexico, which is the only competition so far as I can tell. I don't use the Benchmark map, though. Although I've seen complaints in the reviews that the newer edition of the DeLorme atlas doesn't have as much information as older editions, there is still far more detail here than in the Benchmark map. DeLorme has its flaws, nonetheless; for instance, so far as I can tell all of the county roads in the plains of Lincoln County east of Carrizozo & Corona are mislabelled. But at least they are there and if you have a GPS you can figure out what's going on, whereas the Benchmark atlas tends to just omit smaller roads. Another improvement that would be much appreciated is information on which roads have locked gates; but there simply are no maps available that show this information (so far as I can tell) and I imagine it would be difficult to compile. Unfortunately, this means that if, for instance, you're trying to get to Kilbourne Hole southwest of Las Cruces, you're likely to go down a few gated roads before finding those that go through.