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Utah's National Parks: Hiking and Vacationing in Utah's Canyon Country | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron Adkison
Publisher: Wilderness Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1787480
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 354
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0899971261
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.920433
EAN: 9780899971261
ASIN: 0899971261
Publication Date: December 1991
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Amazon.com Review
If you are planning a tour of Utah's national parks, this guide should prove handy if not essential. It includes easy strolls and multiday backbreakers for Bryce, Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, and Zion. In all, it describes 123 hikes in a user-friendly format. Easy-to-read info blips provide data for hike distances, elevations, difficulty ratings, hazards, and in-seasons. Each hike also includes an ample route description and a few tips thrown in for good measure.
Product Description
Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands offer remote and unspoiled wilderness and perhaps the finest backcountry recreation in the nation. Detailed descriptions of 125 hikes, ranging from brief strolls to demanding, cross-country backpack treks. All are shown on topographic route maps.
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 Don't Hike Without It! October 2, 2008
My wife and I just got back from 6 days in Arches, Canyonlands and Capital Reef. This book was invaluable. With limited time it helps you pick the right hike. Every hike is improved by providing additional quidance on the trail and it points outs features of the hike that you don't get from maps or Park Service guides. My wife kept raving it was the best hiking book we ever bought.
Fantastic resource May 5, 2008
This book is a fantastic resource. Colorful pictures and accurate maps are included. "Inside" information is given to allow a new park visitor to plan a trip without missing out on the little extras that make the trip so worthwhile. Event times and costs are included along with other travel indformation.
 Good, but trying to cover too many areas January 29, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was a decent guide book, but it really tried to cover too many parks at once. It seems like it covers more family type day hikes and not a lot of backcountry and backpacking trails. We used it to plan hikes in Zion National park and Canyonlands - Needles District. The book recommended a hike in Canyonlands National park that did turn out to be awesome (Chesler Park/Elephant Canyon to Druid Arch).
We also used it to plan a hike to the Subway in Zion. In this case, I wish it had given more detail, as we ended up a little over our heads on this hike. The water was a LOT higher than we expected based on the pics we had seen and information we had. Apparently, the water levels tend to be higher in April due to snow runoff. If the book had given more information, we probably would have never attempted the hike at that time of year to begin with. Oh well, I guess you live and learn, right?
In conclusion, I would recommend this to anyone who is planning to visit one or more of the parks for a short period and wants to hit the hightlights. If you want a more in depth hiking trip to one of the parks, I would recommend getting a more detailed guide book specific to that park.
book for foreigners February 28, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very usefull for a foreigner travelling throughout USA especially as it's almost impossible to find such a book (in France) that focuses on one US state.
The book contains detailed informations concerning Utah's National Parks. Hikers should appreciate it.
I recommand it with pleasure.
Hikes for evey level of experience May 27, 2002
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
We have just returned from hiking & camping in Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches And Canyonlands (Island in the Sky area), and found this book to be one of the best of any guide book we have used (over 30 years of hiking). The hike descriptions were so interesting I read them again after doing the hike! The description of how one gets to the trailhead in in a separate section titled "driving to the trailheads", which may cause problems for individuals who don't read scan through the chapters first before deciding on a hike. We found the descriptions of the trees and plantlife on each trail very useful and I would not hesitate to buy another of Ron Atkinson's guide books, they are obviously very well researched.
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