ABQJOURNAL GO: Find your way to out-of-the-way places
From Journal Reports
If you like to explore the very most back roads of New Mexico, a new series of outdoor recreation maps for the state has been published by the Albuquerque-based Public Lands Interpretive Association.
The series of six maps provides detailed road information on a shaded relief base. The maps show recreation sites in national forests, BLM and state lands, national parks and monuments. Also, wildlife refuges, land ownership (public and private), hunting units and other jurisdictional boundaries, special management units such as wilderness areas, GPS grids, campgrounds, museums and other attractions.
The scale of the maps is 1:375,000. The reverse side of each map provides general information about public lands, helpful hints, rules and regulations, land use ethics, emergency and contact numbers and outdoor destination opportunities available in New Mexico.
The maps were created out of a partnership between the Public Lands Interpretive Association, the New Mexico State BLM Office and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
"We felt there was a need for affordable maps to outdoor destinations in New Mexico; maps that had the latest and most reliable information about where to go and how to get there," said Public Lands Interpretive Association spokesman Bill Tefft.
The maps are priced at $6.95 each (or $34.75 for the set of six) and are available in outdoors stores and at other locations throughout the state, from the Public Lands Interpretive Association in Albuquerque at 505-345-9498 or online at www.publiclands.org. [NM Maps, etc: New Mexico | Public Lands Information Center | Books and Maps]