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Yoyo
PostedJun 17, 2009 at 7:53 am

I am section hiking several segments of the CT in July (my sister is thru-hiking it with her husband as well), and I was wondering what the best map options are.

I like the Trails Illustrated maps, but piecing together a whole bunch of maps doesn't sound like a good idea.

I noticed that the Colorado Trail Foundation sells a map book. Is it any good? It seems rather heavy (14.5 oz).

http://www.coloradotrail.org/store.html

I already have the CT guidebook. Should I also invest in the data book
as well?

I was also thinking of investing in some good mapping software for Colorado, although I don't have a color printer.

Paul Gibson
PostedJun 17, 2009 at 9:46 am

David,

Check out this site http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/ They have topo maps available for most of the country and information on downloading the free software to view the maps. If you have a Garmin Gps with mapping capability you can load these maps to them or you could also print them out as you need. From there you may try contacting the trail coordinator to see if they have a "GPX" file of the trail route. This file can load onto the topo map software to give you a map of the area. This is what I did for my up coming Idaho Centennial Trail Hike.

Good Luck

Paul

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