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East View Map Link is who we order from for getting quads in the shop. We sell them for $8 retail. If you can get on campus, UNR has a boatload of topo maps on file in the engineering library that you can run copies of for a dollar or two. I used to use them for planning hunts in the backcountry.
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Today, these topographic maps in question (Spirit Lake, Cougar, Elk Rock, Mount St. Helens and Toutle) are freely downloadable from the USGS National Map's TopoView web utility. I have subsequently downloaded all five of those maps, and thankful for being pre-georeferenced, they loaded with ease in QGis without any conflict to the pre-eruption DEM.
I only know that CalTopo uses USGS maps. These are very often quite old. Especially for urban areas. The USGS is more likely to update wilderness areas first. If you scroll away from your town and into the woods - can you tell if they are more 'up-to-date'? If you want more details - go into OP's link and find the maps of your area.
You can get spiral bound paper 7.5’ Quadrangle Topo Map Atlases of most National Forests in CA. The scale makes them moderately useful. If you get all of the 1:24 USGS sheet maps for a greater region, you are going to have a boatload of paper.
A USGS topo can be opened in GIMP, and with a bit of work, stripped of its borders and converted to a TIFF or JPG that can then be used with GEs image overlay feature. Then if desired adjust the Elevation Exaggeration to suit your visual needs. The effort depends on the area you need to cover.
No, it is a completely different layer with hillshade when you print it. Okay, it looks like chrome browser prints with what almost appears to be a satellite layer under some of the map. Whereas Foxit PDF Reader seems to print it normally. Firefox seems to do it normally as well. Edge browser is the same as chrome.
I also find that paper maps are much easier for trip planning than any software I've tried. REI and a few other sporting goods/outdoor stores around me sell some topo maps and the local Green Trails maps which are great. If you're lucky enough to have access to a large-format printer, the FSTopo maps are free.
The national map has downloadable files. Outside of that there is Gisdatadepot.com used to be free and have usgs maps. Old school ones with the border and titles as well as borderless ones. You can also convert the PDFs from the USGS to TIF, then import to arcmap, and then georeference the corners to wherever they land on the 1/8 degree grid.
Open Topo Map (meters) TF Landscape (Topo Meters) USGS Topo Maps (feet) USGS Offline Satellite. I liked USGS topo. A little bit of context for surrounding trails and nearby features is nice. Plus I've used it to check for campsites on the side of a ridge sheltered from wind, as wind direction is listed in weather forecasts.