And if traveling any great distance, check ahead to be sure the place still has pins.

LTG

For Iowa the best is the one supported by the Iowa Pinball Club members, located at http://www.pinballmap.com/iowa

Hands down, it has the most listed state wide!
Plus, There is an APP for both iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) and Android! Shake it to find a random pinball machine close to you!

-Aaron

this one

I think there's so many pinball locale websites out there(of varying accuracy), a website needs to be made to locate pinball location websites themselves.

I agree that Pinballrebel.com is the best. I remember when I thought the Stern locator was all there was. Those were dark times.

For Portland and most major west coast cities check our portland pinball map app.
It's free and kicks ass.

I check aurcade.com when I am heading out of town to check for pinballs. I also call ahead to confirm they still have pinballs. I met the owner at magfest this year. Very nice guy who runs a very cool tournament system as well as the website.

Pinball Rebel is probably the best "national" map, but it's incredibly out of date for some areas. For cities, pinballmap.com is the best.

Dave Hernly? Agreed, he's a great guy! Worked with him earlier this year taking scores for a tournament at Funspot. His score-taking system was very well designed.

The ideal solution is a single, consolidated/universal smartphone app. This allows you to enter a machine at the time you encounter it as well as automatically entering location data. Otherwise you have to remember to tediously enter the information manually into your computer when you get home.

I tried to use such a thing called "Pinball Locator", but it doesn't seem to get much support. Since Pinside is taking over the pinball world, we should try to commission a member or Robin to develop such an app and get the entire community to support it. I would be happy to contribute to such a needed cause.

Shawn

pinball map is getting better,
I'm compiling a list in st. louis for them.