looking for large scale road atlas

If you're interested, CW has available a large scale road atlas tailored to RV use. At about $25.00, it might be worth a look.

old guy wrote:
walmart used to have them too

X2

Gdetrailer wrote:

dewey02 wrote:
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.

"AAA" maps are not "free" by any means, you PAID the membership dues in order to have the "privilege" of being to be able to get them which makes them extremely expensive if that is you main reason to have the membership..

I USED to have AAA membership, out of 25 yrs of membership I only used their towing "service" (if you can call it that) ONCE. Got a handful of Trip books which were pretty dated and a few maps which really did not have a lot of detail for full sized maps..

Once they boosted to basic member price to $70 for first driver and $50 for additional driver per yr we dropped it..

Walmart Rand Mcnally Atlas hands down beats any of the AAA maps and is one heck of a lot less expense than a AAA membership.

Perhaps. But, around here just towing your car 10 miles is going to cost you 400 bucks or more. I can't imagine how much it would cost to move a RV of any kinds. You don't have to use them often for it to pay off. I have older rigs that break down more frequently.

I have used there lock service once too. (I had a spare set of keys hidden under the car but, they had been there for some many years that the magnetic case they were in broke and the keys got lost.)

darsben1 wrote:
Kind of expensive way to do it but I have the Delorme Atlas for most states I am interested in.
It shows everything and is an invaluable tool to find things you might otherwise miss

I heard that Delorme was bought out by Garmin. I wonder how long they will continue to make paper maps ? I bought a couple for the states near me just in case.

Truck stop. Trucker's atlass. I like them too.

dewey02 wrote:
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.

"AAA" maps are not "free" by any means, you PAID the membership dues in order to have the "privilege" of being to be able to get them which makes them extremely expensive if that is you main reason to have the membership..

I USED to have AAA membership, out of 25 yrs of membership I only used their towing "service" (if you can call it that) ONCE. Got a handful of Trip books which were pretty dated and a few maps which really did not have a lot of detail for full sized maps..

Once they boosted to basic member price to $70 for first driver and $50 for additional driver per yr we dropped it..

Walmart Rand Mcnally Atlas hands down beats any of the AAA maps and is one heck of a lot less expense than a AAA membership.

X2 on what darsben1 said. I prefer 'Bench-Mark' Atlases but they don't make them for as many states. I also keep a 'pocket glass' on hand for the small type.

TakeCare ~ StayWell ~ HaveFun

Kind of expensive way to do it but I have the Delorme Atlas for most states I am interested in.
It shows everything and is an invaluable tool to find things you might otherwise miss

Not directly related to this thread, but this thread reminded me of a true story:

My mother-in-law teased us for years because we seemed to always have a large screen television and they always had a much smaller one. Then one day she called my wife and was all excited when she told my wife they now had a large screen television. My wife was happy for her and she asked, where did you get it from. Mother-in-law responded: Well, we actually didn't get a NEW television, we just moved the couch closer TO the television!

We laughed pretty good on that one!

DownTheAvenue wrote:
https://smile.amazon.com/2018-McNally-Large-Scale-Atlas/dp/052801739X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506781076&sr=8-1&keywords=road+atlas+2017+large+scale

Here you go!

Yes, but I'm pretty sure the printed names of towns are not in a larger font (at least one reviewer says this), so they are probably just as hard to read as any other atlas. This is the kicker, the atlas makes the overall state map bigger (and the state gets cut up onto more pages), but the print size stayed small. I don't see much advantage.

Two years ago I searched all over for an atlas with larger print as well as larger maps, and couldn't find any new ones. I ended up buying a slightly used 2008 "American Map" spiral road atlas from an Amazon seller, and it's a little easier to read.