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Paper Maps for a Long Blackout

When cell towers lose backup power, phone maps stop loading and GPS apps without offline maps are useless. A paper road atlas for the whole U.S. plus a detailed atlas for your own state gets you to family, shelters, water, and fuel without a signal. Mark your routes in pencil before you need them.

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Start here: the U.S. road atlas

One national atlas covers interstates and highways in every state, plus Canada and Mexico.

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  1. Rand McNally 2026 Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico

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Your state, paired with the U.S. atlas

Don't see your state? DeLorme (Garmin) publishes an Atlas & Gazetteer for every state. Search Amazon for "DeLorme Atlas Gazetteer" plus your state name.

National road atlases

State atlases

How to use a paper map in an outage

  1. Mark home, each family meeting point, the nearest hospital, and two routes out of town in pencil.
  2. Add water sources, fuel stations, and the county emergency office.
  3. Keep one atlas in the car and one at home with your go-bag.
  4. Pair it with a baseplate compass and practice once in daylight.

Full kit: Paper Maps kit · Off-Grid Comms kit

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