looking for large scale road atlas
I belong to AAA and I thought they used to have large scale road atlas' but don't see them on their site...State Farm used to give them away.... I have a GPS but like the atlas too...any ideas
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We are AAA members and always request the free maps and books for the states we plan to travel in. We also received a free AAA atlas from them this year. We use that for quick reference, but use the paper maps for more detailed info. We also have a Garmin 760LMT, but I am one of those folks that needs a big picture of where I'm headed, rather than just following commands.
The one (minor) complaint I have about AAA's atlas is that they have a listing of cities in each state on the same page as the map. This makes them shrink the map down in size so there is room for the cities list. For states that have many cities, this can make the map quite small. We had an older atlas that had this city information at the very back of the atlas, so if you were looking for the location of a specific city (we don't often do this) you simply look it up in the back, get the coordinates and then go to the map and find it. This allowed for the state map to take up the full page (or across a 2 page spread), which I prefer.
The one (minor) complaint I have about AAA's atlas is that they have a listing of cities in each state on the same page as the map. This makes them shrink the map down in size so there is room for the cities list. For states that have many cities, this can make the map quite small. We had an older atlas that had this city information at the very back of the atlas, so if you were looking for the location of a specific city (we don't often do this) you simply look it up in the back, get the coordinates and then go to the map and find it. This allowed for the state map to take up the full page (or across a 2 page spread), which I prefer.
