Amazing New Map Details Nearly Every Single Hiking Trail in California

California residents and visitors alike are known to frequent the many hiking trails located throughout the Golden State. From hiking to the top of Mount San Jacinto to trekking the beautiful Mount Tamalpais, the state is loaded with magnificent trails.

But how do you find all of them?

Or, better yet, how do you keep track of the trails that are often marked on all sorts of maps from a collection of agencies and groups? Until now, it wasn't something you could easily do with just one map.

One man decided it was time to change that.

"My wife and I love to hike," Jason Mandly says of his journey to creating the California Hiking Map.

"While living in the San Bernardino National Forest, we enjoyed tracing our tracks and sticking pins on a forest map that hung on our wall," he continues.

"When we moved to Chico, we decided that we needed new maps to decorate. We didn’t have room on our wall for every National Forest, National Park, State Park, County Park, local park, etc. map available, so I looked for a trail map that showed all the trails in California on one piece of paper.

"There wasn’t one.

"So I decided to make one!"

Fast forward to some two years later and a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $11,000 to help fund printing and keep the costs of the final product low. Mandly says his map is now here.

The California Hiking Map, which is 40 inches wide by 60 inches tall, is meant to be a tool of sorts, to help avid hikers catalog their accomplishments, the creator says. It currently retails for $20 plus tax and $7 shipping.

"More specifically, all the hiking trails that are (theoretically) open to the public and are long enough to be seen on a map of this scale (generally about 2 miles in length or longer)," the project's website states. "The trails shown generally include hiking trails, Class 1 bike paths, and fire roads closed to vehicles. This map also highlights select long distance trails and historical trails. Insets were made for some areas that have a high volume of trails in close proximity."

Mandly recognizes that some trails may have been overlooked despite the hundreds of hours poured into the project and encourages anyone who knows of a missing trail to let him know so he can add them to future revisions.

For more information on the map or to buy it, click here.

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