Edwards Crossing (built 1898) over the South Yuba River

North of Nevada City, deep in the northern gold country forest – North Bloomfield Road, turns from pavement to dirt (at this bridge above) and eventually leads to the historic town of North Bloomfield. A great Autumn colors destination!

Total Escape is now featuring all brands of printed maps for California, plus outdoor gear and camping tools to get you out there… this weekend.

Keep the Total Escape web sites alive by purchasing maps and gear with our links. We have done extensive research over the past 2 decades narrowing down the crappy gear from the real rugged outdoor equipment. If you want your camping gear to last years and be reliable, best not to buy the cheapest stuff.

Total Escape sells not just USDA National Forests maps and Wilderness Topos, but Tom Harrison Topo Maps, National Geographic Maps, Wilderness Press Maps, Franko Maps, Benchmark Atlases and many more unknown maps.

Back in 1999, when few knew what ecommerce was, DanaMite began selling hiking maps online. Amazon Associates affiliate program was new to the scene, but Amazon only sold books (and no maps). After redesigning numerous map stores and mailing out maps for near two decades, with thousands of trips to the post office, we are now done with it.

These days, retail sales of map products are better left to Amazon. They have new maps, used maps, old maps, and even out-of-print maps! DanaMite has added a new addition: outdoor gear