I recently moved to the bay area (peninsula) and seriously enjoy running in the different parks (Huddart, wunderlich, corte madera creek, rancho, palo alto foothills etc). I would love to find some kind of map, either online or paper that shows all the interconnecting trails together. Right now I can only find small ones of the individual parks and most of the time they are sort of a rough drawing. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Redwood Hikes makes what look like pretty nice maps, although I don't own any (yet) so can't directly vouch for their quality. Still, I think they're your best bet with high resolution topography (1:25,000 scale is typically the finest scale of topo maps) and trail mileages, spanning many of the different parks / open spaces / etc.
The Half Moon Bay to Cupertino map looks to cover the area you're interested in, although they also have one for Saratoga to Big Basin covering the areas further south. Only $6 too, pretty good price for a good map (not uncommon for similar maps to run $10-15).
http://www.redwoodhikes.com/Store/BATM1.html
Only downside is it says it's on some type of coated paper, which is probably still decent, but most good maps these days are on plastic paper (Tom Harrison maps are my favorite for places like the Sierra, and he even makes some for the Marin parks, but alas none in the Santa Cruz Mountains).
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Wow that looks awesome! thanks so much for the recomendation.
Another good one is http://www.openstreetmap.org.
StevenJ wrote:
Another good one is
http://www.openstreetmap.org.
Yep. Here is openstreetmap with runkeeper data brought in. Great way to find trails...
https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/heyitsgarrett.kf2a2nb1/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiaGV5aXRzZ2FycmV0dCIsImEiOiIwdWt5ZlpjIn0.73b7Y47rgFnSD7QCNeS-zA#9/37.8076/-122.2133Heh, I posted the rec for the redwood hikes maps way back when. I did buy some of the maps, and as I suspected the paper is inferior to the plastic used on Nat Geo Trails Illustrated and Tom Harrison Maps. It's heavier/stiffer and more prone to tearing, especially at the folds. But certainly not a major problem, and the quality of the map itself (the printed information) is great and makes them well worth a purchase.
I actually just checked their site for the first time in a while and see that some of their maps for the northern redwood parks are now on the plastic, apparently the bay area ones are still paper.
I see they also offer digital versions of the maps now for use on your phone or tablet, could be a good option, although if all you want are the USGS topos (which lack a lot of the good trail information added to the RH maps) there are better ways on the phone. Backcountry Navigator Pro for android is really nice, free 24k topos of entire US, can save custom areas to your phone for offline use with or without GPS.
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