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Nice! As someone who loves to hike, you should add the National Forest Maps too: https://www.fs.fed.us/visit/maps/

Hi, I'm not the OP but I am the creator of NPMaps (many thanks to hownottowrite for submitting this). I would indeed like to get around to Forest Service maps after I finish with the national park units. However, they're lower on my to-do list because I've found Forest Service maps to be much more time-consuming to aggregate. Fewer people are searching for them as well.

So, it will happen eventually! I just can't promise it'll happen until I finish the national parks -- unfortunately, it'll be a while since I work a full-time job and this is just a side project when I have free time.

I bet if you throw together a quick sign-up form and post it here soon you could get dozens of volunteers who would be willing to find the maps for a couple of places that you assign them and email them to you.

Yes, among other things there are a lot more NFs than NPs! Keep up the good work regardless - this is a public service you're doing. Hey maybe we should all crowdfund you to work full-time on the site for a year!

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