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Day Hikes In Yellowstone National Park, 4th |  | Author: Robert Stone
Publisher: Day Hike Books, Inc.
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 184
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1573420484
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.87520434
EAN: 9781573420488
ASIN: 1573420484
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Product Description
Yellowstone National Park is a magnificent area with beautiful, dramatic scenery and incredible hydrothermal features. Within its 2.2 million acres lies some of the earth's greatest natural treasures.
Day Hikes in Yellowstone National Park includes a thorough cross-section of eighty-two hikes throughout this national park. Now in its fourth edition, the guide includes all of the park's most popular hikes as well as a wide assortment of secluded backcountry trails. Many hikes lead to hot springs, bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles, and geysers (including Old Faithful) that are predominant throughout the park. Several hikes explore the rim and interior of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, a 1,200 foot deep chasm cut by the Yellowstone River. Highlights include thundering waterfalls, unusual thermal features, expansive meadows, alpine lakes, secluded canyons, and 360-degree vistas of the park. All levels of hiking experience are accommodated, from level boardwalk trails to mountainous treks up to panoramic overlooks.
Each hike includes a detailed map, accurate driving and hiking directions, distance/time/elevation statistics, a list of relevant maps, and summaries to help hikers find a trail appropriate to their ability and desire.
Companion hiking guides include Day Hikes in Grand Teton National Park, Day Hikes Around Bozeman, and Day Hikes in the Beartooth Mountains.
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 Great list of hikes, but keep your wits with you. September 9, 2009
A. GOLDBERG (Pleasant Hill, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just came back from Yellowstone, where our family (including teenage kids) hiked for 10 days. We went through almost all hikes listed by the book in Old Faithful area (with a single exception) and a few around Canyon and West Thumb. The book has three excellent qualities:
1. Every hike has a good description: you can clearly understand what you are going to see, so you can decide if you are interested.
2. Every hike has a schema, which together with the description lets you find your way on land. In fact, even though the books lists real maps one could use, we never needed one.
3. The hikes listed in the book are really interesting ones.
Planning our hikes I was at concerned by the shortness of the hikes in the book: the majority of them are under 5 miles round trip. We found out that 5 miles is the optimal length of a hike at that altitude, at least for our family. Above that and the hike became a drag and we returned physically and emotionally exhausted. 5 miles gave us pleasant feeling of accomplishment and just enough appetite to enormously enjoy our dinners. Most of the hikes also include options of adjusting the length of a hike in accordance with personal preferences.
One issue we had is that nature and people kept on changing the conditions and some of the recommendations in the book didn't apply any more. For example, Clear Lake area around South Rim of the canyon was closed. We could not find any trace of the trail around Queens Laundry itself (and believe me, we tried). That's why you need to read the descriptions carefully and have a general understanding of where you are and where are other trails in respect to your location. Again, quality of schemas and descriptions in the book was such that we were able to find our way even without maps.
We hiked in many places using great many trail guides and this is one of the best.
Excellent straightforward hiking guide January 31, 2009
Bruce H. Jensen (San Lorenzo, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is not necessarily a replacement for the many other good books about hiking Yellowstone's trails - but for many hikes, this one provides the best and most straightforward descriptions of trails to the many fascinating features of Yellowstone National Park, including some gems that others overlook (try finding other trail descriptions for hikes to the four lovely waterfalls near Cooke City and Silver Gate, for example, or a better trail map to the Specimen Petrified Forest). It has become an indispensible element of my backpack.
Basic clear info on day hikes December 29, 2008
Jacx (Illinois USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I own many books on Yellowstone but for the hikes I like this one the best. It has 82 hikes of which I have done several this year. I am going back summer 2009 and have color-coded the pages as to which day I will do what hikes. Some will be repeated. He gives a good description of what you can expect to see on the hikes as well as elevation gain, how much time walking straight through and the distance as well as which hikes connect to other hikes. His drawn black and white maps are not filled with info, just the basics, which I liked. This book is just info on hikes that an average healthy person could complete, just for the day not backcountry and its just on the hikes no history or where to eat and sleep info which for that information I liked reading Yellowstone Treasures by Janet Chapple which she is releasing updated this spring 2009.
 Frustrating August 19, 2010
B. A. Peterson (Fort Worth, Texas)
This book is one of three that I ordered in an effort to gain knowledge and plan for an upcoming vacation trip to Yellowstone.
Frankly, I found this book to be very basic on the information that is provided. It lists several different trails but under examination I found that many of them were actually just the start of longer / overnight hiking trails. The author has you hiking out a mile or more just to turn around and go back to the trailhead without ever going to see anything specific. Out and back trails are great and I don't have a problem in doing them but I certainly want to have a reason and something specific in mind to see for making the hike. However, my biggest complaint is that the maps provided are not North oriented. You have to turn the book "every-which-way" in order to put the map into a North (top) orientation. I found this to be a poor attempt by the author / editor to save space and money on printing fees.
Save your money and do not buy this book. I recommend that you purchase "TopTrails Yellowstone & Grand Teton Must Do Hikes For Everybody", and "A Rangers Guide To Day Hikes In Yellowstone". These two books are well worth the money and provide a wealth of information. These are a must have if wanting to do day hikes.
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