Sayulita 2026 Launches

Jeff redid Sayulita from scratch in 2025, updating and expanding the most accurate portrat of the area's byways yet attempted. This map is available as a 36"x22" poster online for postal delivery in the US and Canada..

Centro detail

Rio Sayulita's course upstream

Beaches to south

Punta Mita in the distance

Nanzal area

Yelapa 2024

 

Bucerías Limited-Edition Poster

Bucerias ready for framing, $30 shipped in the US

 

Limited edition of 50 Bucerías posters, signed and numbered. They are sized 18 by 24 inches for a retail frame.

This edition is ased on the same art used in the portable foldable Bucerias/La Cruz map.

Both towns are updated as of a thorough ground-research expedition in March, 2023.

I have refined the art and changed out the street font to achieve greater legibility over the previous edition.

This print is for now only available by mail order to the US and Canada. Order at my online store.

Puerto Vallarta Signed Limited-Edition Poster

$30 shipped in the US.

At 18 by 24 inches, this is larger than the portable version but still a convenient size to buy a standard-size frame, put it on the wall, and get raves from your guests for explaining Puerto Vallarta to them in one beautiful image.

The Puerto Vallarta Walking Map is 15 years into its development now.

Map Jeff first started wandering the back streets in 2008 after getting the Yelapa map into form. True to his original vision, the map continues to connect the street grid to the many pedestrian paths, footbridges over rivers and arroyos, garden stairways, oceanfront and park walks, and other features that get short shrift on standard maps and apps. 

When seen as a whole, it is easier to understand, appreciate, and enjoy the city before even setting out. Also easier to explain to houseguests.

While PV is changing fast, this map is oriented toward the permanent features of the landscape. One day, it will be an antique - but all the better for that.

Order this map here.

The Cross, a good hike from the Malecon.

Guadalupe Church, Puerto Vallarta's central landmark, with the Plaza and Malecon.

Back streets of the Southside, with Santa Cruz church.

Behind the Libramiento, a waterfall springs into life in summer. This map shows the trail and where to park.

Zona Romantica and Los Muertos Beach and Pier.

Nuevo Vallarta at 10

People are like: "How up to date is it?"

Answer: No map fixed long enough on paper to study is going to be up to date with Nuevo Vallarta these days. I haven't thoroughly gotten a Jeep dirty and checked out the whole place since at least 2019.

It does not have the Cirque du Soleil complex fully drawn. I does have Chedraui!

But I'm proud to have surveyed and accurately logged not only the coastal enclave, with its Marina and many resorts cotos, but the entire Mexican inland community of Valle Dorado as well, all in the summer of 2012. 

In that respect it is a mere snapshot of a time. I have taken pains to graft Vidanta faithfully upon the southern tip in the years since, as it has ardened into an elaborate mini-walled-city and virtually swallowed old Jarretaderas like the crow snatches the hummingbird. 

I'm not sure I really even have the heart to draw the south shore of the Rio Ameca in the age of Vidanta. But it might be good for someone to know how the landscapes were laid out so that people later in history will have some idea what ruins they are looking at.

One day I will stop trying to update these places altogether, and print lots and lots of commemorative "remember the old times" maps of, say, Yelapa in 2005, and Puerto Vallarta in 2013. Signed, on quality paper, for loving presence in living rooms, on condo hallway walls, maybe in museums.

And they'll remain the most accurate snapshots of the area anyway, for years.

Nuevo I surveilled in the summer of 2012. I enjoyed exploring it more than I expected. I had a chance to draw it as I researched it because I was living in PV then.

The map emerged more or less whole in a few weeks, and I was very satisfied with the colors and style - it set the tone for much of what was to come during the rest of the decade, especially as it influenced the Puerto Vallarta Centro's color scheme with its deep green ocean and bright texts.

Just below is the coastal strip between Nuevo proper, the swampy Flamingos territory, and Bucerias at the left:

I drove every street in Valle Dorado  and presume most if not all those not yet paved then are paved now. Or, they're post-paved in places. Remember, roadside cave-ins are the more hazardous option than mere potholes. Some lanes run along ditches. 

One or two copies in a tube for $25 shipped here.

Yelapa 2022 Limited Edition Print

 The 2020 print is circulating in Yelapa for the time being but I have prints updated with 2022 information available to mail-order customers.

Order online here. 

This edition features a new color palette, somewhat lighter than the previous one for better legibility of text. The number of eateries in the Pueblo alone is now up to 25 (!). This print is on the same durable high-quality paper I always use for Stateside mail-order prints. It will also make a nice poster.

Order foldable version online here.

Order as a poster here.

New PV and Cabo Corrientes Prints

 Limited Edition on Thick Cardstock

Even in this non-starter of a season, I have put out new prints two of my most popular maps: Puerto Vallarta Centro & South Coast, and Cabo Corrientes Roadmap. Since these are small print runs, I decided to experiment with thicker cardstock-type paper. These will be very sturdy maps when folded, and when ordered flat, are tough enough to laminate as placemats.

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Puerto Vallarta Centro & South Coast, Ed. 7

Cabo Corrientes Roadmap, Ed. 4

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Paradise Launches

New for 2021: A map for a fast-rebuilding community.

Streets are laid into the folds of hills and creekbeds, and land forms are drawn in relief with shadow, in Mapa Jeff's signature technique. The result is a a unique three-dimensional illustration of the landscape.

Other than ghost graphics for the churches temporarily lacking a facility, this map indicates as little as possible the tragedy of November 8, 2018. All street names from the time before are on this map, aside from a few whose new owners have already decided to take them private.

The first image shows the first edition print, covering Paradise proper, available in stores as of Jan. 27 (for now, Jeannie's Consignment is the sole vendor in Paradise; in Chico, Ellis Reprographics and Art Etc. on First Street downtown also have them).

They can also be ordered shipped or delivered locally at my online store.

The last shows the large version, which shows the region all the way to Mount Shasta. This can be custom-ordered mounted and framed.

Easy to read - easy to retail.

Chico 2021

Edition 2 of the Chico Panoramic Map focuses in on the city core for a smaller (2x3-foot), more affordable ($25) poster with more legible type. It is available so far at Made In Chico, Ellis Reprographics, and MONCA. Order the new Chico map at Mapa Jeff's online store.

Edition 1, first released in May 2019, proved uneconomical this time around due to a more than doubling of the cost for prints of that size at Mapa Jeff's usual vendor. There are still a half-dozen of these left ($50 each), and two mounted and wall-ready prints that were used as displays at Made in Chico are also for sale ($200 each).

Mapa Jeff originally designed the full-region version in Edition 1 to be printed five feet wide, but shrank the image to make it feasible to print at quantity. Going forward, this full-region map will be available at that size, mounted to foamcore and ready to hang with a frame/brace backing, signed and delivered locally, for $300. Contact Mapa Jeff at mapajeff@hotmail.com for details.

Order the new Chico map at Mapa Jeff's online store.

Lo De Marcos

LO DE MARCOS POSTER, FIRST EDITION

A panoramic, isometric, ground-researched map of the increasingly popular town north of Sayulita and San Pancho. Many streets are unnoted on any other map, including those of neighboring pueblo Ursulo Galvan.

Lo De Marcos is available by mail order in the US and Canada.

The first print is a signed 14 by 20 inch one-sided poster.

It will look great in a frame or on a fridge.

Comes in a tube.

Check Mapa Jeff's online store.

Yelapa 2020

15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

This print, research on a visit in early 2020, recorded the new beach lines in the wake of Storm Narda. It is the first edition with the jungle tree cover in place across the range of Yelapa's gorgeous mountains.

This print is and will be available as a keepsake in Yelapa, both folded and as a poster, for years. The printer, in Leon, Mexico, was unable to stop the machine apparently and bargained with me for a thousand prints. Most sat in a friend's cafe's loo in PV for the entire covid period, side by side with paper towels and napkins.

Order this map for delivery in the US and Canada through Mapa Jeff's online store.

 

Mapa Jeff at MONCA

Thursday, May 30, 5-8 pm: opening party for Monca's summer exhibit, "Map It Out."

https://www.facebook.com/events/437611690324897/

Mapa Jeff's first-ever American regional city map will be on display all of June and July along with works by 30 other artists from all over northern California.

"Chico Iso 1.0"

The compass faces northeast at a tilt sufficient to see the horizons for about 100 miles at its furthest - the purple peaks at top.

At bottom, Chico, all the incorporated city save a few far-out nibbles; the 99 and the railroad frame Chico up like a tapestry loom.

This map is still evolving at the screen. But as a stationary item, it hangs up for close, well-lit, silent inspection. How well do you know your city?

I know it well, let's have a look.

Chico, California Panoramic Map

The first-ever print of this map will be shown at the Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA) in downtown Chico as part of its "Map It Out" exhibition, May 30-July 28, 2019.

A regional perspective, facing northeast, aligns the town with the canyons that send it water.

 Downtown area and lower Bidwell Park.
The central core's many alleyways are shown in yellow.

The Avenues, east and west, with Lindo Channel.

Bike lanes, on-street and off, are purple.

South Campus and the west side, the orchards that survive right next to the urban grid.

The Green Line urban development boundary, which has protected Chico's west side from development, is shown in translucent green.

The compass rose, with a valley oak leaf motif, reveals the isometric tilt of the map.

Chico has never looked quite right in flat, north-facing maps.

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Big Chico Creek, the west side, and Ranchaero Airport.

New developments and old orchard lands at the city's northern reaches.

The roads at left are not yet on any map but this one.

Many streets at the northeastern end of the city are also new to any map. To capture the outer grids, I bicycled across building sites with a GPS tracker.

The neighborhoods along Lindo Channel Greenway, which flows with water only in the rainy season.

Each pink cross represents a church. Chico's one synagogue and one Islamic center are also represented.

Upper Bidwell Park, Canyon Oaks, and California Park stretching into the hills.

Private, gated streets are noted in faded red. Private streets that are open to the public are light blue.

Chapmantown is still not annexed to the city though it is surrounded by it.

This map shows the current city boundaries in precise detail, with small pockets of Butte County jurisdiction often peppering plots on the same block.

Outer Park Avenue, the Meyer industrial area, and the Comanche Creek Greenway.

A century ago, a railroad linked Stirling City (shown on this map) via the present Skyway all the way into Chico via what is now a long hiking/biking path shown at center right.

Paradise and Magalia, up the slope via the Skyway.

The peak of Mount Lassen, visible at the upper left corner, is 55 miles from Chico.

Lake Almanor and its towns are also featured in the distance.

See this map May 30-July 28, every Thursday through Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm.

Opening event: https://www.facebook.com/events/437611690324897/