Is there a decent US road atlas?

cubegame

I've advised many people in the past to just go and obtain the free state maps for the USA as these are usually the best available. However, a friend of mine really wants a proper all-encompassing atlas.

The thing is.....I never found one which had a usable scale. Has anyone else had any luck?

jfdi

I've got a Michelin road atlas that covers USA, Canada & Mexico.

I bought it in the travel book shop near Covent Garden in 2006, but was using it OK last year in Florida. Wee bits change, but no more than here - it's great for getting onto the rural roads & off the Interstates.

Looks like it's still avail http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canada-Michelin-Tourist-Motoring-Atlases/dp/2067175424/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345375934&sr=1-2

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torbrex

Rand McNally delux - midsize is the one that I have been using on most of my trips to the States, I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone
They also do a large print and easy to read version.

JCP

I've got a Rand McNally Road Atlas for the USA which came in very useful for a 7 state tour we did back in the day.
It was about A3 size or so. The more densely populated states got several pages, and there were individual city center maps for the bigger towns.

I'm guessing this is the more up to date version of it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rand-McNally-Large-Scale-Atlas/dp/0528006282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345376215&sr=8-1
but you'd probably be as well picking one up at a petrol station in the US.

The only minor issue we had was the size of the places which made it onto the map. We were caught out once by assuming that because somewhere had made it onto a map of the entire United States, that it would be a decent size and have a gas station. We were wrong. I give you Lost Springs, Wyoming which had a population of (I think it was) 4 at the time (late nineties). After that we never let the tank get less than half full.