Purple Lizard Maps – the name alone piques your attention, but Purple Lizard Maps are some of the most unique and coolest outdoor travel guides you’ll find anywhere.

First of all, they’re real maps – not a GPS or an app, detailed with information and even with some purple lizard mystery.

Michael Hermann, is the founder of Purple Lizard Maps and was with us on The Spark Friday,"We try to do is make really beautiful, easy to read recreational maps. We print them on a durable waterproof paper and they contain all the information you need to go explore a new area. They're a little bit different than other maps because our maps tend to be really highly curated with outdoor recreation in mind. We currently have 17 maps in the lineup. Most of our maps are of Pennsylvania areas, Pennsylvania State forest and public lands. But we also have maps in Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico."

Hermann added,"The first thing we want to do is really showcase the public land. So that's the most important because it's really important to know what's public and what's private. So we want to show the public land. We also want to show what can be done on that. So if it's a hiking trail, if it's a shared use trail, which would be for mountain bikes and equestrian use, if it's a motorized trail, we want to show people where they can find their boat launches, really give them a big picture. But we also include all those sort of valleys and communities around the public land that are that are essentially private land, but they have assets on them. So we might showcase the covered bridges. We might pull out some of the older historical buildings that might exist on that landscape because typically you have to drive through that landscape. To get onto the public land. So in that way, our maps are really curated differently than most maps because we're we're pulling out the cultural and historical assets that we think people would find interesting that they never knew were there, that they might just drive past. Otherwise they didn't know if they just went down this little lane for half a mile or a mile, they might find this really amazing feature."

<a href="https://www.purplelizard.com/index.htm?gad=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6WhpeHe_gIVTefjBx38sQw3EAAYASAAEgKEFfD_BwE">Purple Lizard Maps</a> – the name alone piques your attention, but Purple Lizard Maps are some of the most unique and coolest outdoor travel guides you’ll find anywhere.
First of all, they’re real maps – not a GPS or an app, detailed with information and even with some purple lizard mystery.
Michael Hermann, is the founder of Purple Lizard Maps and was with us on The Spark Friday,"We try to do is make really beautiful, easy to read recreational maps. We print them on a durable waterproof paper and they contain all the information you need to go explore a new area. They're a little bit different than other maps because our maps tend to be really highly curated with outdoor recreation in mind. We currently have 17 maps in the lineup. Most of our maps are of Pennsylvania areas, Pennsylvania State forest and public lands. But we also have maps in Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico."
Hermann added,"The first thing we want to do is really showcase the public land. So that's the most important because it's really important to know what's public and what's private. So we want to show the public land. We also want to show what can be done on that. So if it's a hiking trail, if it's a shared use trail, which would be for mountain bikes and equestrian use, if it's a motorized trail, we want to show people where they can find their boat launches, really give them a big picture. But we also include all those sort of valleys and communities around the public land that are that are essentially private land, but they have assets on them. So we might showcase the covered bridges. We might pull out some of the older historical buildings that might exist on that landscape because typically you have to drive through that landscape. To get onto the public land. So in that way, our maps are really curated differently than most maps because we're we're pulling out the cultural and historical assets that we think people would find interesting that they never knew were there, that they might just drive past. Otherwise they didn't know if they just went down this little lane for half a mile or a mile, they might find this really amazing feature."

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, hosts Scott LaMar and Aniya Faulcon start the conversations about what’s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at https://witf.org/programs/the-spark.

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from <a href="https://www.witf.org">WITF</a>, hosts Scott LaMar and Aniya Faulcon start the conversations about what’s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at <a href="https://witf.org/programs/the-spark">https://witf.org/programs/the-spark</a>.

The Spark

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, hosts Scott LaMar and Aniya Faulcon start the conversations about what’s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at <a href="https://witf.org/programs/the-spark">https://witf.org/programs/the-spark</a>.

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