Look and feel of the map

I grew up hiking in the Great Basin with the old 1:62K topo sheets, and when the 1:24K sheets came out, they had a much different look. Now the newer 1:24K sheets have an even different look. Our Verteran's Day "tradition" is to go hiking at Shenandoah. Last year it snowed as we came back, but this year it only rained. The USGS topo maps are free to download, and I got both the 2019 editions and the 1994 version. They look different (the new pictogram symbols just don't seem like a topo map, more the NPS brochure), and I had both on my phone for our hike around Big Meadows to see Lewis Spring Falls and then the disappointing Tanners Ridge Cemetery, which is not historic but very much a typical cemetery. The big omission on the current map are the buildings, which are some of the key landmarks for navigating, and picking the right trail.

The hiking was the day before the rain, but it was cloudy and the photography disappointing.