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Detail of an early draft of Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders, part of the Infinite City atlas, 2010.

Custom Cartography

Pease Press designs maps for books, displays, brochures and websites. Our maps are clear, handsome, and convey both points of interest and a sense of place. Find samples of our work and learn how we can help you with your projects.

Pease Press's Bay Area Trail Maps

We publish some of the best maps of Bay Area parks. You'll find detailed trail information that's not in online maps, and get a big-picture view of regional trails and how parks connect with nearby neighborhoods.

Pease Press maps in our catalog include: San Francisco, Northeast Marin County, San Mateo Coastside, and Santa Cruz.

We also publish small-format maps of Central Marin (San Geronimo Valley) and Pacifica.

We also sell selected maps by other publishers showing the Central Peninsula, Southern Peninsula, and Point Reyes National Seashore.

We also list other recommended maps and guidebooks, and links to agency maps.

Detail of The Walker's Map of San Francisco, 2010

A Little News:

I write about maps, tools, and favorite San Francisco walks and places in my blog: Cartographer's Notebook (http://peasepress.wordpress.com).

My long-promised Trails of San Francisco map, now called The Walker's Map of San Francisco, is finally finished! For everyone we've kept waiting, thank you for your patience. Read more about this beautiful, essential map in our catalog. As of Thanksgiving, 2010, it's available in a dozen Bay Area bookstores, and here by mail, and should be at your local outdoor supply store in early 2011.

Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel were delighted to serve as the main cartographers for the new book Infinite City: a San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and friends, published by our friends at University of California Press. It's a marvelous look at a few of our city's hidden, layered histories. SFMOMA published six of the maps as posters/broadsides. The entire city celebrated the night of the book party (as the Giants won the World Series). Get a copy at your local independent bookstore.

Sadly, since early 2010 Gerald Olmsted's landmark maps of Mt. Tamalpais and the Marin Headlands and the East Bay Hills have been out of print. We'll let you know if they return, and consider replacements for these irreplaceable maps.

Updated 11/26/10