Rio Grande National Forest Folding Map
USDA Forest Service Rio Grande National Forest Map provides information on points of interest, no-trace camping, tread lightly etiquette, mountain biking, archaeological and historical sites, Silver Thread Scenic Byway, Colorado Trail, recreation sites, visitor responsibility, travel management rules, and even plans to stop the spread of noxious weeds. An inset index map locates the USGS 7.5' topographic quadrangles for the same region. The map also displays color photographs of points of interest and activities. The map scale is ½ inch per mile (1:126,720).
President Theodore Roosevelt established the Rio Grande National Forest by Presidential Proclamation in 1908. This action, taken as part of Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot's program to bring the National Forest System to its full potential, combined parts of the former Cochetopah and the present San Juan National Forests.
Today, the Rio Grande National Forest includes almost two million acres of publicly owned land on the eastern slope of the continental divide. Parts of two spectacular mountain ranges, the San Juan and the Sangre de Cristo, are within the Forest. Also included are the headwaters of the third longest river in the United States - the Rio Grande del Norte, or "Great River of the North," as it was known by the early Spanish and Indian inhabitatns of the Southwest.
Two-sided, self-cover, paper map.
Scale: 1:126,720
Size:
4” x 9” folded26-3/4” x 55-1/2” unfolded
Price: $14.95
Ships Immediately.
Part # 40427
