Purple Lizard maps are cool travel guides

• Scott LaMar
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  Scott LaMar has worked in both radio and television for more than four decades.
  
  Currently, LaMar is the Host and Executive Producer of The Spark program on WITF-FM, 89.5 & 93.3 in Harrisburg, Pa.
  
  Previously, LaMar was WITF TV’s Sr. Public Affairs producer and produced the station’s award-winning weekly public affairs TV program, Smart Talk.
  
  In addition to his on-air duties, LaMar has moderated political candidate debates, including those for candidates running for Pennsylvania governor and the U.S. Senate and was a regular contributor to BBC World News TV before and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
  
  LaMar often emcees or moderates local events and has gone as far as California to emcee a national event.
  
  The American Society of Civil Engineers honored LaMar with their national Excellence in Journalism award in 2020. He has been nominated for five Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.
  
  LaMar and The Spark have been recognized throughout the Central Pennsylvania community including ADVOZ Lancaster’s “Dignity in Dialogue Award”, the South-Central Assembly’s “Regional Citizen Award” and was named a “Humanitarian Hero” by The Humane Society of the United States/Pennsylvania.
  
  A native of Coatesville, Pa., LaMar has also worked as a broadcast news anchor, sports play-by-play announcer and manager.

Airdate: Friday, May 5, 2023

Purple Lizard Maps – the name alone piques your attention, but Purple Lizard Maps are some of the most unique and coolest outdoor travel guides you’ll find anywhere.

First of all, they’re real maps – not a GPS or an app, detailed with information and even with some purple lizard mystery.

Michael Hermann, is the founder of Purple Lizard Maps and was with us on The Spark Friday,”We try to do is make really beautiful, easy to read recreational maps. We print them on a durable waterproof paper and they contain all the information you need to go explore a new area. They’re a little bit different than other maps because our maps tend to be really highly curated with outdoor recreation in mind. We currently have 17 maps in the lineup. Most of our maps are of Pennsylvania areas, Pennsylvania State forest and public lands. But we also have maps in Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico.”

Hermann added,”The first thing we want to do is really showcase the public land. So that’s the most important because it’s really important to know what’s public and what’s private. So we want to show the public land. We also want to show what can be done on that. So if it’s a hiking trail, if it’s a shared use trail, which would be for mountain bikes and equestrian use, if it’s a motorized trail, we want to show people where they can find their boat launches, really give them a big picture. But we also include all those sort of valleys and communities around the public land that are that are essentially private land, but they have assets on them. So we might showcase the covered bridges. We might pull out some of the older historical buildings that might exist on that landscape because typically you have to drive through that landscape. To get onto the public land. So in that way, our maps are really curated differently than most maps because we’re we’re pulling out the cultural and historical assets that we think people would find interesting that they never knew were there, that they might just drive past. Otherwise they didn’t know if they just went down this little lane for half a mile or a mile, they might find this really amazing feature.”