Hey everyone! I want a really good road atlas for the U.S. as I am going to be traveling full time in my Airstream and would like to have a good ol' fashioned map/atlas What is the best road atlas brand out there?
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I keep a Rand McNally road atlas in my car
Rand McNally, National Geographic, and Michelin all make nice US road atlases. A lesser known one that I rather like is made by HEMA (an Australian company). A cool thing about the HEMA road atlas is that, rather than devoting a page per state, its pages are all at the same scale. So some pages have more than one state and others have parts of states. For the northeast area there are extra pages at a more detailed scale.
Also, MapArt, a Canadian company, makes a nice US-Canada-Mexico road atlas. I like supporting lesser known companies, and the HEMA and MapArt atlases are certainly on par with the Rand McNally and National Geographic ones.
Awesome. Thanks so much!
I was interested in the HEMA Atlas as well but the most recent edition, the 2nd Edition, was printed back in 2012. Last year I emailed HEMA and inquired about an update to that map and the reply I received was: "Unfortunately we will not be doing a 3rd edition on USA Road Atlas. Thank you"
Just FYI
I use the Rand McNally Atlas, it's about as good as any you'll find. Get the large scale, you can never have a map that's too big.
For individual state atlases I don't buy anything but the big red Delorme's maps, no other brand even comes close. Worth their weight in gold for backroads exploring.
Thanks! I'll pick up the Rand McNally!