Orienteering maps are the most highly detailed topographic maps available. They show every feature that is useful for navigation. Linear features such as trails, streams, and stone walls guide you along your route. Point features such as boulders, pits, springs, and ruins can be used to check your progress along the way.

Generally they are printed in 5 colors.

white = forest; green = thick vegetation; brown = contours;

yellow = open areas; blue = water; black = rock features or anything man-made

Brainard Forest, West Hartford, CT

Five Ponds, Litchfield, CT

Forest Park, Springfield, MA

Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA

Hurd State Park, East Hampton, CT

Macedonia State Park, Kent, CT

Mt. Tom, Holyoke, MA

Mt. Norwottock, Amherst, MA

Northfield Mountain, Northfield, MA

Quabbin Hill, Ware, MA

Rocky Neck, East Lyme, CT

Wadsworth Falls State Park, Middleton, CT

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