Nature Noir
“They are finely drawn things that presume a greater level of interest on the part of the highway traveler in wandering off the main roads than other maps do. They are known for their accuracy in mountain recreation areas. Where other maps often show generalized green blobs for parks and national forests, the auto club's depict with precision each campground, ranger outpost, secondary road, and body of water.
In the late eighties when I first worked at Auburn State Recreation Area, the Automobil...e Association's map of the Sacramento Valley and Sierra foothills showed a large lake filling our canyons of the North and Middle Forks of the American River, although of course no such lake existed. Theirs was not the only map that did. A Rand McNally map distributed through filling stations also showed a twenty-five-mile-long Y-shaped blue feature labeled "Auburn Reservoir" in the middle of our canyons. And the gold-mining equipment shop in Auburn still sold Metsker's Placer County map in a slipcover proclaiming THE SPORTSMEN'S GUIDE ...MoreLess
In the late eighties when I first worked at Auburn State Recreation Area, the Automobil...e Association's map of the Sacramento Valley and Sierra foothills showed a large lake filling our canyons of the North and Middle Forks of the American River, although of course no such lake existed. Theirs was not the only map that did. A Rand McNally map distributed through filling stations also showed a twenty-five-mile-long Y-shaped blue feature labeled "Auburn Reservoir" in the middle of our canyons. And the gold-mining equipment shop in Auburn still sold Metsker's Placer County map in a slipcover proclaiming THE SPORTSMEN'S GUIDE ...MoreLess
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