Channel Islands National Park Map (National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map, 252) Map – Folded Map, August 16, 2023

It was a gift for a family member and have not heard back. Skimming through it I thought it was very informative and well illustrated.

Bought for a 4 night backpacking trip on Santa Rosa Island. Did between 6-12 miles of hiking each day. Everything I looked at on the map was accurate. Map feels durable, waterproof, and is easy to read. If your heading to the Channel Island NP can’t go wrong with this map.

Used on a backpacking trip to Santa Cruz island. I love the Trails Illustrated series, this one had included milage of trail segments which is super helpful. Topographic lines are easy to read. Fantastic map.

Great for, say, a sailboat or to keep at your beach house, but far too heavy for backpacking.

Nice map, basic trails, roads, points of significance. Durable map.

Topo maps are topo maps, although this one seems especially worth having. If you're going to go to the trouble and expense of going out to one of the islands (we hiked on Santa Cruz Island), it's worth complementing the National Park Service hiking information with a map that shows the trails. Because time on any of these islands is short (although it's eight hours on Santa Cruz), it's helpful to have the map to scope out the trails you want to hike before arriving.

Great map. I keep it on my sailboat next to my charts.

I'm a mapaholic. No trip can commence without one. To date, no map has been more important than this one, as the Channel Islands are remote, without power, and in many places without water. In April 2014 we travelled here to celebrate my SO's 30th birthday and camp in the backcountry. We were over prepared, and thank god, because water is unavailable anywhere but the cop-out campground less than a mile from the beach. We were headed to the back country. In one day we hiked over 18 miles attempting to locate our backcountry site without success, and ended up camping at the opposite end of the island, "illegally". This was as a direct result of the map being old--last updated in 2006--and several trails marked on the map now no longer exist. We did eventually find the right site, but the inaccuracy made for quite the adventure--and we only found out about the missing trails thanks to the advice of a park ranger we met crossing the Montanon at the end of the trip! We will absolutely travel to the CI again--and hopefully NGM will update soon.