Free map

Is your Washington state road map a little tattered after years of folding it the wrong way?

Well the Washington State Department of Transportation is giving out free maps. The 2004 highway map features sites that Lewis and Clark visited during their journey through the state 200 years ago.

Cartographers used 142 different levels of information to create the map which includes topographic and road information. The state prints 1 million copies of it every two years. The first was printed in 1931.

And while William Clark used crude tools to make his maps, this map was created digitally. Clark didn't do too bad, though. His map was just 50 miles off when measuring the distance from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia.

Click here to order your map online. Or call (360) 705-7279

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