USCAmpgrounds.info
Print a State or Portion Thereof
This page supports printing. About 200 campgrounds are loaded below and the map is much bigger than the main page (1200 x 1200), so you can pan and zoom and print an entire state or a large portion. This page is only for printing, for browsing campgrounds (with full info), use the main map page.
Here are brief instructions for printing, for detailed instructions look below the map.
- Drag the map to your camping area and double click to zoom in until you can read most of the 4 letter labels
- Use FIRESHOT or SCREENGRAB (both free) to capture the entire 1200 X 1200 map. If you just want the visible portion on the screen, you can use "print screen" (on the keyboard) to capture it.
- Paste it into an image editor, like IRFANVIEW (free)
- Crop it to fit on one printed page, either portrait (900width X 1200height) or landscape (1200w X 900h)
- Print it portrait or landscape on 8 1/2 X 11 paper
How to Print
How much you can print on a 8 1/2 X 11 paper page (and still read the labels) depends on the density of campgrounds in the state. Where they are more dense (eg, UT or OR), you have to zoom in to a sub-area to be able to read (most of) the campground labels. You would have to print more than one page to get the whole state legible. In less dense states (eg, PA and IN) you should be able to print the entire state mostly legible on one page. By cropping, you can print PORTRAIT (900 wide, 1200 high) or LANDSCAPE (1200 wide, 900 high) on and 8 1/2 X 11 page to get the best coverage of your area.
It is a bit artsy-craftsy as the states are all different shapes and densities and thus takes some zooming and thinking about your area of interest.
There are a number of steps, so PRINT OUT the instructions below and follow them carefully.
1) Download and install a free browser add-in that allows you to print the entire screen (not just the visible portion). FIRESHOT works on PCs for either Internet Explorer or Firefox. For a MAC, try SCREENGRAB, which works only with Firefox.
2) Move the map to your area of interest and zoom in until you can read most of the labels (you might not be able to read them all but if you loaded the data set into your GPS it will have them all and this should help)
3) You cannot print the whole 1200 X 1200 map on a single piece of 8 1/2 X 11 paper - you are going to crop it (in your image/photo editer) to 900 X 1200 (portrait) or 1200 X 900 (landscape) then print. So decide if your area of interest best matches PORTRAIT (tall and narrow) or LANDSCAPE (short and wide) layout. (For PA you might print LANDSCAPE, for IN you might choose PORTRAIT.) This may require some trial and error. Note that you are going to print a portion of the the ENTIRE map (including what you see only if you scroll), NOT just the visible portion you see on the screen at any one time.
4) Use FIRESHOT (upper right corner of browser) or SCREENGRAB (lower right corner) and select the option to capture the entire page (not just the visible portion) and to copy it to the clipboard.
5) Open your image/photo editor (For PCs, IRFANVIEW is a good free one. For a MAC, you can use the PREVIEW function that is built-in to OS X) and PASTE the entire map (1200 X 1200) from the clipboard.
6) CROP the portion you want to print [900 X 1200 (portrait) or 1200 X 900 (landscape)] then PRINT selecting either PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE on your printer.
You should have a nice full page map of the area you selected. Load the data file on your GPS and take it and your printed maps(s) with you.