Mount Diablo, Los Vaqueros & Surrounding Parks
Featuring the Diablo Trail

“Mount Diablo, Los Vaqueros & Surrounding Parks, Featuring the Diablo Trail,” Save Mount Diablo’s new regional recreation map is full color, double-sided, 34” x 40”, waterproof and tearproof. It is available at the SMD office for $9.95 plus tax, or by mail for an additional $3.55 in tax, postage and handling (total $13.50). Visit our office, call in, mail or fax your order using the order form. The map is also available at the REI Store in Concord, 1975 Diamond Boulevard, Forward Motion Store in Danville, 432 Hartz Ave., and many other local stores. Wholesale: contact SMD office at (925) 947-3535.

Save Mount Diablo’s New Regional Recreation Map
By Seth Adams & John Kelly

Save Mount Diablo has produced the first regional trail map of the Diablo area including Mount Diablo State Park, Los Vaqueros and thirty-six other parks and preserves. The map is full color, double-sided, waterproof and tearproof. Our volunteer map committee walked hundred of miles of trails with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) units and worked for two years to document all of Diablo’s parks and trails for the first time in the most accurate Diablo map ever created.

Funding was provided by REI in two grants totaling $9,000. This map is the first to give a sense of the full scale of land preservation around Mount Diablo, to spotlight the 30-mile Diablo Trail and to show all of the regional trail connections between the various state, regional and local parks.

Map Design Elements: A Tour of Save Mount Diablo’s New Regional Recreation Map

SMD’s new Diablo Map challenged the entire map committee with the monumental task of presenting a large amount of information accurately and in a user-friendly format. Over two years time, numerous decisions were made in terms of the colors, the design features, and the visual hierarchy found on the map. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at some of the design and content issues encountered in the mapping process that will give you a deeper appreciation of the volunteer map committee’s work.

Read the press release or Diablo Watch article.