The end of paper park maps

I was not an early adopter of digital. On a vacation in 2006, 3 families who were with us made fun of me for still needing to get film developed. I got a Nikon D50 that Christmas (it had been discontinued and was about $300 with a kit lens). When those same families saw the pics I took on a beach vacation together the next summer, they each got a Nikon D40 (which replaced the D50). I used the D50 for about 12 years. My kids got me a replacement about 5 years ago (and my son bought his own Nikon digital camera continuing the tradition of photographers in the family).

My dad has taken pictures/movies in 8 different decades. We kept all of them when we cleaned out his house. Still in the process of digitizing everything. Boxes and boxes of negatives, slides, prints, photo books and movies. Most in 35mm format and super 8 for movies. He moved to medium format when I was in college/my kids were young. And eventually moved to digital (well after I did). Includes pics from our annual trips to Cedar Point and what had to be my first trip to the park based on the year/my age. Pics of me and one of my brothers riding kiddie rides and what looks like the frontier lift (based on all the trees in the background). And a pic of us with drinks on a bench with our mom (she loved the shows but never the rides). Weird thinking she was much closer to the age of my kids now in that pic than she was to my age now.

I work for a company that digitizes and permanently stores your media (with no advertising or tracking) if anyone wants to outsource that job.

Park maps were always my favorite thing to get at parks. I would usually grab 2 or 3 upon leaving and still have the crumpled and worn one in my pocket.

I don't take my phone inside the parks, I have no desire to lose it, so I leave it in the car. I started downloading the maps online and just printing them out myself, at least I have some sort of a copy to look at in the park.