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"For land lovers, a new series of Benchmark atlases highlights recreation and topographical map features. The heart of these maps is the landscape map pages, which show landforms with impressive clarity. Roads and rivers are shown as they fit into the land, not as schematic diagrams. The maps seem to be designed specifically for the hunter, fisherman, and recreational outdoorsman."
~Lew Carpenter,
Editor, Western Outdoors Magazine
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Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas
"Arizona is anything but flat, and the Landscape Maps™ show you in vivid detail how 'unflat' the state is; the public lands maps provide quick, color-coded references to who manages the land. The scale is ideal for showing both local detail and regional features – there are 11 pages of maps on the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas, with the most up-to-date information on the fast-growing regions."
~Arizona Great Outdoors
California Road & Recreation Atlas
“Benchmark Maps has released the third edition of its highly acclaimed California Road & Recreation Atlas. With new Landscape Maps™ featuring improved landform detail, the addition of hundreds of back roads and new metro area maps (including one for Sacramento and Sierra foothills), the atlas should be useful to anyone who drives the state.”
~Bob Masullo,
Sacramento Bee
New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas
“For navigating around the state, my favorite map is the New Mexico Road & Recreation Atlas. It is divided into two sections: one consisting of beautiful shaded-relief maps of the landscape, and two, maps showing roads, counties, geopolitical features, and land status. The recently published DeLorme road atlas for New Mexico also is useful for driving. It seemingly includes more roads than the Benchmark atlas, but it doesn't discriminate between decent public roads and impassable tracks that often have gates. It also doesn't distinguish between large and small villages and settlements.”
~Bob Julyan,
Albuquerque Journal
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Utah Road & Recreation Atlas
“Benchmark Maps has just released the Utah Road & Recreation Atlas, and it is the most comprehensive atlas we've ever reviewed...The amount of detail in these maps is absolutely staggering and exactly what you need to get you there and back again. We liked the fact the atlas is oversized to make reading the maps much easier. And the comprehensive atlas makes finding counties, cities, towns, and physical features a breeze."
~ Mark Nobles,
4 Wheel Drive & Sport Utility Magazine.
Idaho Road & Recreation Atlas
“Benchmark Maps recently released its Idaho Road & Recreation Atlas, which may render the DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer obsolete. That's not a cheap shot against DeLorme's atlas. It has its flaws, but for years it's been a valuable resource for Idahoans. But Benchmark's atlas seems to have cured all of DeLorme's flaws and created a detailed, easy to use, comprehensive atlas for recreationists. Benchmark spent months in Idaho gathering information and driving 12,000 miles around the state to double-check its accuracy. It has three obvious improvements over the DeLorme atlas: the maps on each page overlap so you don't get lost going from page to page, the maps have contour shading so you see mountains, valleys, and ridges rather than having to interpret them through topographic lines, and the atlas overlaps border areas with neighboring states. There are many other improvements.”
~Roger Phillips,
The (Boise) Idaho Statesman
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