This is the first Backroad Mapbook ever produced for Vancouver Island. Originally published in 1994, this inaugural island edition features 59 hand-drawn maps focused on logging roads, backcountry access, and outdoor recreation across coastal and inland regions. Designed to fill a major gap in available mapping at the time, it provided practical information for fishing, hiking, camping, and exploration where little detailed guidance existed.
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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