The
new Baja titles from National Geographic Maps are printed on
waterproof, tear-resistant media and show topography with 100-meter
contour intervals plus shaded relief. Because they lack point-to-point
highway mileage, they won't replace the AAA map as a highway-driving
necessity, but they show far more terrain detail--great for surfers,
kayakers, shore-fishermen and backroad/backcountry explorers. Plus
they're a lot tougher than the paper AAA map -- damn-near
indestructible in fact.
For boaters, they'll be
useful for visual navigation; the electronic and paper charts of Baja
show virtually nothing in the way of onshore terrain. But with these
maps, you should be able to locate yourself by identifying coastal
terrain features. Not necessarily critical in these days of redundant
GPS receivers, each capable of storing hundreds of routes, but still
kind of neat -- and potentially very valuable if your GPS goes down.
Both maps measure 37-3/4" x 25-1/2"
open. Scale is 1:450,000.
Baja North covers the state of Baja
California and extends about 20 miles into Baja California Sur. It
includes good blow-ups of central Tijuana, Ensenada and Mexicali and an
inset of Isla Guadalupe.
Baja South covers from about
Vizacaíno south and includes blow-ups of San Jose del Cabo, Cabo
San Lucas and downtown La Paz, plus a larger-scale inset of the Los
Cabos corridor.
WHY
BUY THEM FROM US? If
you buy The Angler's
Guide to Trailer-Boating Baja at the same time, we'll knock
$3.95 off the MSRP of $11.95 for a single map or $5.95 off the $19.95
MSRP for both, and you pay shipping only for the book. That's $8 for
one map or $14 for both. If you buy the maps alone, you pay MSRP, but
we'll still send them to you free. And you pay no sales tax unless you
live in Nevada.
To order, click "Order Page" below.
For more images of the maps, scroll down.
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