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jeremesh · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 7:39 am

I dont know if this should be in the land use section or not so I will post it here and if there is a better place for it, it can be moved. You all may already know of these but I just stumbled upon them. The maps seem to show every road that is open for use by all vehicles. The one I found is only for George Washington National Forest but I would assume they have these for other national forest areas as well.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/gwj/maps_brochures/20080207-mvum-final.pdf

The page where I found it was

http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/gwj/maps_brochures/mvum.shtml

jerbacher · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 10:17 am

jeremesh wrote:

I dont know if this should be in the land use section or not so I will post it here and if there is a better place for it, it can be moved. You all may already know of these but I just stumbled upon them. The maps seem to show every road that is open for use by all vehicles. The one I found is only for George Washington National Forest but I would assume they have these for other national forest areas as well.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/gwj/maps_brochures/20080207-mvum-final.pdf

The page where I found it was

http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/gwj/maps_brochures/mvum.shtml

we used these in Daniel Boone Nat'l Forest in KY. They've had a lot of changes in road closure and use and it came in pretty handy to know what was legal and not. If nothing else, its good to have in case you get stopped by rangers so you can validate your existance.

WoodysKJ · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 12:34 pm

Can we make this a sticky, if it isn't already.

And a more general link to the site where you can search for other area's maps?

Just a thought.

jerbacher · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 12:40 pm

WoodysKJ wrote:

Can we make this a sticky, if it isn't already.

And a more general link to the site where you can search for other area's maps?

Just a thought.

The problem is that each map is deep within the individual park or forest's site.

For instance, heres daniel boone's mvum: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone/maps/mvum.shtml

jerbacher · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 12:44 pm

they're pretty easy to find by starting here though: http://www.fs.fed.us/ and then putting your desired forest or state into the search fields in the middle and then clicking on maps & brochures or whatever on that individual forest's site.

jeremesh · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 1:04 pm

jerbacher wrote:

they're pretty easy to find by starting here though: http://www.fs.fed.us/ and then putting your desired forest or state into the search fields in the middle and then clicking on maps & brochures or whatever on that individual forest's site.

I dont know how easy it is... I have been to the GWNF site many many times and never saw this. The link to the Maps and Brochures was information on how to purchase maps and brochures but I never saw a link to this file. I actually found the link to this on the VA 4wd association web page. But then again, I am notorious for scanning something and not reading it fully :-)

jerbacher · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 1:08 pm

jeremesh wrote:

jerbacher wrote:

they're pretty easy to find by starting here though: http://www.fs.fed.us/ and then putting your desired forest or state into the search fields in the middle and then clicking on maps & brochures or whatever on that individual forest's site.

I dont know how easy it is... I have been to the GWNF site many many times and never saw this. The link to the Maps and Brochures was information on how to purchase maps and brochures but I never saw a link to this file. I actually found the link to this on the VA 4wd association web page. But then again, I am notorious for scanning something and not reading it fully :-)

Yeah, each forest's site is different too. Its pretty easy to find on the Daniel Boone site, but I went to the Wayne Nat'l Forest site and I dont even think they have one, unless I just cant find it. I really dont think theres just one central location to find all of the mvum's for all the forests though.

jeremesh · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 4:49 pm

More useful information on the MVUM

http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv/travel_mgmt_schedule.pdf

It seems you can find any of these if you google MVUM and the area you are searching for.

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