Best General Arizona Travel Guides
Beautiful, accurate, very detailed and best selling Grand Canyon map is now available in the 5th edition. Fine shaded relief and 100ft contours give a detailed & stunning view of the Canyon topography. Detailed topographic trail map of 308,000 acres in central Grand Canyon. This is the area where 99% of visitors travel and where 90% of overnight backcountry trips take place, and where most trails and reliable water sources are. Kent Schulte lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great map!"
"Everyone hiking in the GC should carry a good topo map like this one."
"I would not think of ever going into the canyon without this map."
"It's also packed with regional and site information, including trail descriptions and water availability information."
"This is my favorite Grand Canyon map."
"Lots of great information for planning my first trip into the Canyon."
"Great map, I don't have any other maps of the area to compare to but it has everything I need."
Navigates 2,671 miles of backcountry trails throughout the state. After traveling extensively in Australia, Europe, Asia, and Africa, the authors covered more than 80,000 miles touring the United States and the Australian outback between 1993 and 1997.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you get lost while using thus book, it's because you weren't paying attention!"
"We realize there are people who go to these places and feel it is OK to take a "memento" but it does affect the rest of us."
"Great book in great condition!"
"I thought this book was a little pricey but it was for a friend so I got it anyway."
"Great Book."
"As soon as I started reading the book the binding feel apart!"
"If you come to two abandoned houses on the East side of the highway, with a trail running alongside the, you are 0.3 miles to far North. IT THEN TURNS EAST AGAIN AND PASSES THROUGH A GATE ALONGSIDE A COUPLE OF CORRALS AND HEDGES WELL." The trail is rated 2, the wash this guide tells us to drive though and cross is like quicksand and I got stuck! It is extremely soft because all of the sand settles and accumulates as it tries to travel through a small tunnel across HWY 89. I had a gut feeling that this wasn't the correct way into the trail as I had inspected the area on gmap before departing my household."
Clay Thompson's Valley 101: A Slightly Skewed Guide to Living in Arizona. When I think of Clay's work for the Arizona Republic I'm reminded that if E.B.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Don't be drinking anything when you read this."
"A fun book of the area by a fun guy."
"You don't have to live in Arizona to enjoy Clay's humorous take on life amd living in a Desert area."
"I've been reading Clay Thompson's Valley 101 columns in The Arizona Republic for years now."
"I did work with him back in the '80s and I discovered that he was a damn good writer and I wondered why he was the religion editor and/or an assistant city editor rather than a superstar columnist."
Best Western United States Travel Photography
Packed with over 400 color pictures that YOU can take.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have a system for researching places now, but when I was starting out, I always found this book useful in pointing out interesting / photogenic places to go to."
"I've lived in San Francisco for many years and been taking photos for many years more than that."
"While of course not all subjects are offered fourteen different ways, some are offered more than one way and all are carefully described with enough information to replicate the example image yourself. Without extended time to wander San Francisco and northern California searching on my own for image opportunities, I'm confident this book will improve my image collection on my upcoming visit there."
"It would have been better to be direct with the photo information rather than get into a history of each of the major stops listed in the book (often several are listed on a page, and in paragraph form). Pick up this book but don't forget the Frye book if Yosemite is part of your destination."
Best Phoenix Arizona Travel Books
Surprisingly, it's also one of the most diverse and dramatic for hikers, with scenic destinations ranging from area parks, greenbelts, and preserves to high and low deserts and breathtaking mountains. Now a software engineer by trade, Charles spends much of his spare time exploring mountains, leading hiking trips, photographing and writing about trails around Arizona and throughout the Southwest.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very pleased with this book."
"One improvement I would like to see is waypoints provided for some of the locations on each of the hikes."
"I was taking a trip out to Mesa and needed a good hiking guide."
"Must buy for your hiking trip!"
"Gave this to my gal pal in Phoenix, and she loves it."
"This book was a gift for my brother but I looked through it and felt even a new hiker could find this helpful."
"Waiting to try some of the hikes."
"Great resource for Phoenix hiking."
Best Tucson Arizona Travel Books
Day Trips® from Phoenix, Tucson & Flagstaff: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler (Day Trips Series)
This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of these popular Arizona cities. Pam Hait is the author of 13 books and a contributor to many national publications, including Metropolitan Home, Sunset, Travel & Leisure, and Arizona. Highways.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"this is a nice book, lots of places to go and info."
"I live near Phoenix and have been looking for ideas for 1-3 day trips, and this book was perfect."
"Perfect book for my next year in AZ!"
"The places/shops that are out of date still led us to interesting times."
"Excellent, useful for all of Arizona."
"In the last 9 years my husband and I have explored AZ."
"This was a gift to a friend that will be attending the university of Arizona in the fall."
Best Grand Canyon Travel Books
In full-color throughout, Fodor's Arizona and the Grand Canyon helps travelers take advantage of the state's myriad pleasures, including outstanding museums and galleries, Navajo and Hopi cultural experiences, top-notch golf, three national parks, and excellent Mexican food and tequila. “Fodor’s is pitched a few notches higher….aimed at a fairly discerning traveler with an appetite for background and the occasional surprise.” – New York Times.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Got this for a friend who was moving to Arizona."
"Helpful book."
"My first solo trip was all guided by this book."
"Very detailed and informative."
"Nice quick reference guide if you are traveling to Arizona."
"Easy to use and priced right."
"Great book, happy with the information provided."
"Fodors is my go to travel guide always!"