America’s vast recreational and tourism network goes well beyond the lands featured in the “National Parks" series. It also encompasses expansive monuments, dense forests, breathtaking coastlines, and scenic trail networks. Field Notes is excited to expand their offering of memo books celebrating these great American vistas with the first two 3-Packs of their “Explore America” Series: Northern California and the Triple Crown of Hiking.

Stunning illustrations of some of the country’s most picturesque destinations and distinguished challenges feature on the covers of these Memo Books. These first two 3-Packs continue their collaboration with the brilliant artists of The Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series… Choose your next adventure, or collect them all.

The covers are printed on 100-lb Mohawk Via cover stock, using a custom, five-color process. The illustrative styles, the printing process, and the copper staples recall the heritage, and archival promotional materials and publications, of the National Park System.

Each book features a brief history of the landmark on its inside back cover, a spot for an official stamp, drawing, or memento on the inside front cover, and 48 pages of Domtar Lynx Opaque 60-lb text paper marked with a 3/16" dot-grid to record your plans, routes, notes, and memories.

These Field Notes are a tribute to places in the U.S.A. that can only truly be appreciated in person. Please visit, enjoy, and support these destinations, along with the National Park System. We hope when you visit your favorite national monument, landmark, or hiking trail, you’ll bring along your new favorite memo book, fill it up, and tag us in your photos.

Proudly printed by the good people of The Graphic Arts Studio LLC, Barrington, Ill.
Cover: Mohawk Via Vellum 100#C with a background hit of custom spot color under process cyan, magenta, yellow, and black soy-based Superior inks.
Cover printed on a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102S six-color offset printing press.
Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra 60#T with a fine, 1-color application of ”Green Earth” soy-based Superior ink.
Bound with a Muller Martini 6-pocket saddle stitcher with cover feeder/scorer.
Corners rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge round-corner machine.
Dot-graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.

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