Huachuca Mountains Maps

[Taishan68]

Can someone please recommend paper, handheld topo maps for Huachuca Mountains? Thanks!

[chumley]

If you can find a copy of the newer 2019 edition of this book [ Trails of the Huachucas ] you'll find it to be an invaluable resource for the Huachucas. There is a separate "Trail Map of the Huachucas" by the same author sold separately from the book that is the best map of trails there that I've found. I've seen it sold in local hiking/outdoor shops (including the Coronado NM visitor center).

[Nighthiker]

I have been using USGS topo maps for a number of years and have a large inventory of maps. If you are going to use for various activitys note the newer edition of maps have been edited and ruins, caves, mines etc are not on the maps. If you are using with a GPS take note of the map datum and set your GPS to the map datum. I live in Payson and use Printing by George to obtain maps. You may want to check Blueprint Shops some print up USGS maps.

[RedRoxx44]

If you can locate AZ nat Geo TOPO program on ebay you can get the set for the state usually pretty reasonably. Its been long discontinued and may not work on Win 11 if you are on that platform. However it works just fine on my WIn 10 desktop and I have a solid state tough book that is off line with Win 7 and loaded with pretty much all the western states mated with a portable printer. Granted the maps are notebook paper size but you can shrink or blow up certain sections and I print back to back to make it a little less clutter. The map program is offline so it cannot update and has historical data on it although not all roads and trails will now be accurate. The CD"s can be loaded to the hard drive so you do not have to have them with you in the bush.

[CannondaleKid]

@RedRoxx44
For years I used the National Geographic TOPO program for locations of old mines and ruin sites. Unfortunately, now without a working Windows PC I miss it... Nat Geo that is, not the Win PC.

[big_load]

If you can locate AZ nat Geo TOPO program on ebay you can get the set for the state usually pretty reasonably. Its been long discontinued and may not work on Win 11 if you are on that platform. However it works just fine on my WIn 10 desktop and I have a solid state tough book that is off line with Win 7 and loaded with pretty much all the western states mated with a portable printer. Granted the maps are notebook paper size but you can shrink or blow up certain sections and I print back to back to make it a little less clutter. The map program is offline so it cannot update and has historical data on it although not all roads and trails will now be accurate. The CD"s can be loaded to the hard drive so you do not have to have them with you in the bush.

As an experiment, I dug up my old CDs and just successfully installed Topo 4.6 New Mexico on a Windows 11 PC. It took a while, but it appears to work OK. I still have all the registration numbers, which it asks for upon installing.

ETA: For AZ, I had to separately install Topo! 3.4.1, since my AZ version was before they had serial numbers. That version works, too.

[xsproutx]

I've been a technology professional for the last 25 years and you guys just made me realize that, unless I dig up some buried laptop in my garage, I actually have nothing that takes a CD in my house except for my playstation these days. Even my cars don't have CD players. How times change...!

[chumley]

CD players

$15 on amazon. Big spender.

I have all my Topo! files as disk images on a thumb drive now

As redroxx said, it's great to have access to them in the backcountry on a laptop.

None of which has anything to do with hiking in the Huachucas ...