NPS Map Elements: Updated May 14, 2018

Map Symbols Road Symbols Legend Boxes - large, medium, and small
Airport Authorized park
White Fill - Large boundary
Amphitheater Legend box Legend box Legend box
00 Wilderness area
00 000 00 0
Boat launch
Legend box Legend box
Boat tour 000 00 NPS property
000 00 0 Legend box
000 00
Legend box Legend box
Bicycle trail line 2 Private land within
000 0000 000 00 0 line 2
Loop authorized park boundary
Bus stop/Shuttle stop Legend box
0000 000 00 0 line 2 Hiking trail
Campfire
000 00 0 Unpaved road
Campground

Canoe access White Fill - Small North Arrows - large, medium, and small Unpaved road
Cross country ski trail 00
000 00 0
00
North Unpaved road (closed
Downhill skiing 000 North to motor vehicles)
00 000 00 0 North
000 00 North
Drinking water North Overlook
North North
000 0000 000 00 0
Loop
First aid 0.5mi Distance
0000 000 00 0 0.8km indicator
Fishing
Bikeway and
Food service
No Fill - Small foot trail
00 North North
4-wheel-drive road 00 000 00 0 Parking areas

Gas station 000 00 00 0 West East W E

000 00 000 Parking area
Golfing 000 0000 000 00 0
Loop South S Locked gate
Horseback riding 0000 000 00 0
(rental, guided tour)
Hospital Marsh
BIA Road Shields
Ice skating Bar Scales (one-inch long) - large, medium, and small
00 0 Rapids
00 0
Information 0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers

Litter receptacle Navajo Road Shields 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles River milepost
55
Lodging 0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers
0 00 Kilometers
0000 000 00 0 Red starboard
Marina 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles
0 00 Miles daymarker

Motor bike trail Directional Notes 0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers

0 00 Kilometers Green port
To 00 and To 00 and Frederick
daymarker
Parking 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles
0 00 Miles
Shepherdstown Buoy
Pets on leash To Rohrersville 0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers
00mi 00km 0 00 Kilometers
Picnic area 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles Continental Divide
To Leesburg To Purcellville

Post office and 00 and 00

0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers 0 00 Kilometers Glacier
Radiator water Distance 00mi 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles 0 00 Miles
Indicator 00km
Canal and gate
Ranger station

RV campground Roadside Pullouts

0 00 Meters 0 00 Meters 0 00 Kilometers

Recycling Highway 0 00 Feet

0 00 Feet 0 00 Miles
Interchanges
Restrooms 0 00 Meters

Sanitary disposal station Roundabout 0 00 Feet

0 00 Meters
Sailing
0 00 Feet
Scuba diving

Self-guiding trail
Mountains
Shelter

Showers
Mount Huge Mount Large Mount Medium Mount Small
0000ft 0000ft 0000ft 0000ft 0000ft
0000m 0000m 0000m 0000m 0000m Aids to Navigation
Sledding

Snowmobile trail Channel Markers (entering from seaward)

Port (odd numbered)
Stable 3 Lights flash green
Store Starboard (even numbered)
Pictograph Alignment Miscellaneous Symbols Nautical Symbols 4 Lights flash red
Swimming
Diver’s Flag
Telephone Fire tower Lighthouse

Emergency telephone Spring

Buoy Regulatory Flags
Trailhead Map Symbols Waterfalls
Keep out
Wheelchair-accessible Lock Starboard buoy
Danger
Wind surfing Battle
Cannon Port buoy
Speed Limit
(No wake-5mph)
Airport
Daymarker
Circles and Squares Airfield Storm Warning Flags

Solid Open Arrow (plain) Red starboard Small craft advisory

daymarker (20-38 mph winds)
.070 Arrow (tapered)
.060 Green port Gale
Leader daymarker (39-54 mph winds)
.050
.040 Town circles Light Storm or whole gale
(55-73 mph winds)
.030 Ruin
.020 Mooring buoy Hurricane
Cemetery (74 mph winds or
higher)
Bridge Coral reef near
Old Map Symbols (Pre 2006) water surface
Mountain pass Channel Buoys (traveling upstream)
Wreck
Fort
3
? Port (left) buoy

4 Starboard (right) buoy

A Mid-Channel buoy
(unlighted)
Tour stops
A Mid-Channel buoy
(white light)

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