A thread I started about old park roads got me thinking about the park maps in my road map collection, and how I don't have any really old ones. Well, I recently did some searching on google and ebay for old Starved Rock State Park (Utica, IL,) maps, and I won an auction for an old park map and guide from 1940 (Should be arriving Monday), plus I came upon this gem (from a Gizmodo article about a triple murder that occured at the park in 1960 (https://gizmodo.com/this-triple-slaying-rocked-a-peaceful-state-park-and-se-1726271165))
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/1401427772526357795.jpg)
Anybody else collect old park maps? State, provincial, national, county, whatever?
I collect National Park maps, some of them have become decently vintage by now. I have them all hanging up in my garage between highwah shields. I really like how the NPS in particular has glossed fold out maps for visitors. Usually I request two copies for each new Park I visit. BLM maps can be decent too but only if they have visitor centers, otherwise I go for their trail maps.
I have a bunch of NPS unigrids. I pick one up when I visit a site.