This bundle brings together the original first edition Backroad Mapbooks that started it all. It includes the inaugural Southwestern British Columbia Mapbook in both its original white cover and revised light blue edition, along with the first Backroad Mapbooks ever produced for Vancouver Island, the Kamloops–Okanagan region, and the Kootenays.
Printed in the 1990s using hand-drawn maps and small-press production, these books were created to solve a real problem: the lack of reliable backroad information for outdoor travel in British Columbia. They focus on logging roads, lakes, and backcountry access, with short notes on fishing, hiking, camping, and exploration. These volumes were never meant to be preserved; most were used hard in the field, and few complete sets still exist today.
This bundle is the closest thing to owning the full origin story of Backroad Maps: five original books that laid the foundation for everything that followed.
The First Edition Backroad Mapbooks are where Backroad Maps began. In the early 1990s, brothers Wes and Russ Mussio set out to map the backroads they couldn’t find on existing maps. These books were hand-drawn, self-published, and printed on a small press in a garage in British Columbia.
The maps are simple and practical, showing logging roads, lakes, and access points, with short notes on fishing, hiking, and camping. These books were made to be used, not collected, and most of them were. That’s what makes surviving first editions rare today. What you’re holding is an original piece of backcountry history. Learn more about how it all started on our history page.
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