15:42 Saturday, May 05 2009

Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument map

For reasons that remain a mystery to me, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) doesn't believe in putting good quality maps online. Every single one of their sites provides a mishmash of details and just about never a map in any format. It was just about impossible to get any useful info when I was camping in the Yuha Desert (California) back in February, and the same is the case for the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. The only map that they provide is this joke. A GIF at about 1/4 size which is just about unreadable. After some serious Googling, I found the original PDF from which that GIF was generated, and uploaded it here so that others can benefit.