Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Tetons: Must-do Hikes for Everyone
Where to buy Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Tetons: Must-do Hikes for Everyone books online?
- ISBN13: 9780899975009
- Condition: New
- Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Product Description
With trips from Mammoth Hot Springs to Ancient Faithful, from the Absarokas to the Gallatin Range, and from Jackson Hole to the Teton Crest Trail, Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks has all visitors need to delight in the essential in natural and geothermal wonders–tranquil backcountry lakes, panoramic summits, glacier-carved canyons, steaming geyser basins, vast meadows teeming with wildlife, and much more. Award-winning leader Andrew Dean Nystrom has selected the 45 best trips in the area, ranging in part from a half-mile stroll by some of the park’s most colorful hot springs to a 30-mile trek past intriguing thermal features and wildlife galore.
The second edition features expanded coverage of the new Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve addition to Grand Teton National Park, family tree and kid-friendly hikes, legally soakable hot springs (with ratings) in both parks, moonlight hiking, and how to secure hard-to-get in-park lodging and campsite reservations.
- Winner of a National Outdoor Book Award for best adventure guidebook in 2005, and a best-selling Wilderness Press title.
- At-a-glance information shows which trips have the best hiking, mountain biking, trail running, horseback riding, and more.
Buy Cheap Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Tetons: Must-do Hikes for Everyone Online
Related posts:
- Frommer’s Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
- Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes, A
- Top Trails: Yosemite: Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
- STEEP TRAILS – California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
- Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks and Jackson Hole: Great Destinations: A Complete Guide
This book is excellent but with additional map books and gps map details it was not needed.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
very helpful
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
My fiance and I just got back from a trip to Yellowstone. Luckily we brought 2 guidebooks because this guidebook certainly needs a backup.
Pros:
I like how the leader finds various types of trails in each area of the park.
The synopsis chart in the beginning makes it so simple to navigate the book.
Some of the trails I really liked – like the Cascade Gap and Jenny Lake trail in the Grand Tetons and the South Rim trail in Yellowstone.
Cons:
We establish some mistakes that I would consider reasonably misleading:
Concerning Huckleberry Springs – which is according to the leader a well-known swimming hole in the Grand Tetons, the description in the book needs some work. Crossing Polecat Creek was extremely hard – very high, rapidly-flowing water. Then when we get to the end of the trail we searched around for 15 minutes trying to find exactly what the leader was describing as the “five star soak”. I reflect I might have establish it, but it was right next to the hot spring itself. If you go into Yellowstone, there are so many warnings about NEVER EVER going into the hot spring because the water temperature could rise unexpectedly, so I’m surprised anyone would really soak here. There certainly wasn’t anyone there when we were there last week (the week of July 4th). Needless to say, we did not get in the water.
Concerning the Boiling River – the book states the trail opens in mid-June. The additional guidebook we had states mid-July. Guess which one is right.
Concerning the Tower Fall trail – The book states that you can walk all the way to the bottom of the gap. But, the trail down to the bottom of the gap was ruined in 2004. It’s a long way to go down only to stop middle.
Maybe these updates are on the book website… I don’t know because I didn’t notice that the book had a website until AFTER the trip.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
August 16, 2009 update: Excellent news. Amazon has restored all reviews of the first edition here, to the 2nd edition listing, so that you can see for yourself what others reflect of the book.
Please contact me via either the comments or electronic mail message with any feedback, comments, questions or critiques whatsoever. yellowstonehiker at gmail dot com
==
Hi, while we await Amazon to port over the 17 reader reviews (average 4.5 stars: 12 5-star, four 4-star, one 2-star) from the 1st edition of my National Outdoor Book Award-winning guidebook , here’s a link to the reviews of the original edition: Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks: Must-Do Hikes for Everyone.
I spent two years and several months on the ground researching this revised and expanded edition, plus several more months researching, revising and writing it all up. If you have any questions about preparation a trip to Greater Yellowstone — Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and environs — feel free to contact me via email or leaving a note here in the discussion boards.
In sustainable adventure,
~ Andrew D. Nystrom (leader)
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
We spent a week in the Yellowstone and hike everyday – this guide helps us as a lot to find what is the best for each day. We easily establish the way how to get to the trails and we never lost our way. This book is certainly very useful for everybody going to the Yellowstone (or Grand Teton) not to stay on road but delight in hiking.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5