|
Road Guide to Death Valley National Park, Updated Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Decker, Barbara Decker
Publisher: Double Decker Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $6.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 112337
Media: Paperback
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 1888898089
EAN: 9781888898088
ASIN: 1888898089
Publication Date: January 2004
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Promotion: Buy 4 eligible items in the 4-for-3 promotion offered by Amazon.com and get 1 of them free. Terms and Conditions
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
A guided tour of the major sights and features of fascinating Death Valley National Park. A 48 page guide with 50 color photos as well as 20 maps and drawings.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Death Valley in a Weekend March 16, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
So, you have two days to "do" Death Valley. How do you go about it? Death Valley is huge. The main basin is 120 miles long and 5-10 miles wide. But the park also includes the Saline Valley and parts of several mountain ranges. However you plan your visit, you will be in for a lot of driving and this updated Decker guide is a good place to start.
This book has a lot going for it. Where else are you going to quickly learn about basin and range topography, and the fact that the valley floor in Death Valley continues to sink even as it fills with sediment each year? A good popular geography text would have that information, of course, but not in 48 pages and not with a scenic tour guide included. The photos are also stunning, so if you can't go right away, you can at least get this book and see what you are missing.
Centered around Furnace Creek, this book describes two driving tours: one to the north and one to the south. In the course of two days, you will manage to see the bulk of the park highlights: Scotty's Castle, Harmony Borax works, Dante's viewpoint, Salt Creek, Uhebe's crater, and many more. I particularly liked the fact that this guidebook included suggestions for short hikes along the way and an appendix listing additional trails and less frequently travelled roads. Indeed, I cannot think of any negatives with this book(let) so I am giving it 5 stars. Buy it and go enjoy one of America's premier parks.
Inexpensive and useful August 1, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
We have used four of the Deckers' national park road guides so far and found them all to be worthwhile--especially at their low price. The guides help ensure that you don't miss the "must see" places. This is especially useful if you have to allocate your time carefully.
 Useful Guide January 26, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I would recommend a guide to get the most from your Death Valley trip. We entered the park from the south, from Pahrump, where the traffic is lighter and the landscape quite fasinating. The guide was very useful and lead us to sites we might have bypassed.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
