Texas Hill Country Map (National Geographic Destination Map)

Practical, easy to fold and write/erase during travel

Used it a lot while I was in the Hill Country. Even better than the AAA Texas regional maps but harder to read

National Geographic is renowned for their high quality maps, however this edition of Texas Hill Country doesn't quite live up to their usual top notch quality.Pros-The map is clear and easily assessable to anyone. No matter how new you are to using paper, or in this case plastic, maps this one is pretty user friendly.-Effectively highlights points of interest in Hill Country proper. The map displays symbols for attractions such as caves, campgrounds, museums, points of interest, and wineries.-Most importantly, the map is pleasant enough to stare at for extended periods of time. If you're like me you plan your trip long before you ever set foot in the actual place, thus its important to have a map which draws you in. This map will give you a sense of layout of Hill Country.-There is a nice inset map of Austin on the backCons-They place pictures throughout the body of the map. This is unnecessary because the map itself is intended to be focus. Furthermore, it interrupts the continuity of the roads and makes getting your sense of place more challenging.-The map makers get lazy in the periphery areas. In the periphery of the map the cartographers don't bother to including points of interests, campgrounds, etc. For example, Amistad National Recreation Area is full campgrounds but they don't bother putting the camping symbol [the little picture of a tent] there, but they including camping symbols for tons of other parks within the heart of Hill Country. The same goes for many other known camping/ point of interest on the periphery of the map such as Seminole Canyon State Park, Lake Brownwood State Park, and San Angelo State Park, all of which have camping and other amenities.-The back of the map is covered with tons of pictures and advertisement-like blurbs about activities and sights in Hill Country. I'm all for making something visually appealing but this information isn't hard to come by and would be better suited for a free brochure. Instead they should have dedicated this part of the map solely to inset maps of the various cities and parks of the region.-Some parts of the map have little tent symbols but not the name for the campground associated with the symbol.In conclusion the map is not terrible, and might be what you need for you're excursion, however there is a lot of need for improvement. Hopefully next time National Geographic won't make it look like a brochure for Texas State Parks.

good map

In preparation for showing out-of-state friends the part of Texas I was raised in and am proud of (and haven't visited in several years), I was pleased to see that National Geographic offered a resource that might be helpful.I was terribly disappointed to discover that the map published by National Geographic turned out to be so unusable. The map has many cartoonish elements, and certainly omits many activities and points of interest that are integral to enjoying the Texas Hill Country.

Not worth the coast. They put decorative photos on the map that actually cover up some roads. Why???

Very disappointing - we want a map, not the pictures that cover what we spent $14 for in the first place. What a waste of money.

Tourist locales are highly visible, but towns can be more difficulty to see.

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