Best General Pennsylvania Travel Guides
Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized folding guide is an excellent source of portable information and ideal for field use by visitors and residents alike. Each pocket-sized, folding guide highlights up to 150 species and most feature a map highlighting prominent sanctuaries and outstanding natural attractions.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"These quick reference cards are amazingly easy to use and very helpful identifying birds quickly."
"a quick easy chart that I can carry with me when fishing to Identify birds."
"used it last fall it was handy."
"I have a copy of this bird guide, and I got one for my daughter and her husband for Christmas."
"The bird pictures are great, but the number of birds included is very limited."
"ok...don' t have female birds on it."
"Ignore the previous negative rating."
"It is a one page cardboard picture of birds and their names, folded in 3."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"So I live in Pa, and we love books about our state."
"Before this was gifted, I did flip through and read a few things."
"Think you know your state?"
"Very Happy with everything!"
"Good read."
"Pretty cool book."
"Very educational about all the different creepy spots in PA!"
"Very interesting book about those sites that don't show up in the usual travel books."
-- Clear directions to the best hikes in each area -- Each hike includes a contour map and gives mileage, vertical rise, and estimated hiking time -- Hikes at a Glance overview chart makes it easy to pick a hike.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is great for planning day trips and overnight camping trips by taking us to places nearby that we have never explored before."
"There are lots more places to hike in PA than I realized."
"Not a bad book for hikes to eastern PA."
"Over the last few years, we have hiked 23 (probably more) of the 50 hikes and have enjoyed them all. We have been using the book to take our own notes over the years and have noticed a few things about the book that, if there were a second printing, we would like to see included. Next, some of the trail directions do not make mention of which trails are blazed, so a direction may be to take a left 2.3 kilometers (grrr!). down the trail onto the unmarked x-country ski trail, when really all you need to do is to follow the white blazes. Getting back to praise for the book, the maps are easy to use, the directions are 97% useful (one or two were a little misleading, but nothing catastrophic) and the information included about each hike is very interesting. After you get a hang of the author's narrative style, you can almost see the trail before you hike it just by his brief description."
"Speaking of miles, who writes a hiking book about Eastern PA and gives all distances in kilometers? I do know how to convert miles to kilometers, however, I feel that the author's kilometer soapbox listed in the book is a bit irresponsible."
Best Pennsylvania Travel Guides
This two-color book includes succinct descriptions of each trail from start to finish, plus at-a-glance summary information indicating permitted uses, surface type, length, and directions to trailheads for each trail.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a "must have" resource for learning the terrain, the difficulty level of the trail, the composition of the trail (so that you can determine the proper bike to use), the length of the trail (extremely important if you are new to biking), and other great information about the local area where the bike route is located."
"nice book for our local trails."
"Well designed book for the walker, runner, and Biker."
"Great book."
"I bought this in hopes of learning more about trails that I could bike on since I avoid riding on roads with cars and motor traffic."
"Really enjoying reading through this guide."
"Nice addictionto a bikers travels.This book showals times,elavation,andfresh water spots.Affordable and easy to read,yet packed full of info you did not know.Well worth the buck."
"Gave it as a gift to my husband and he has been enjoying it so far, planning out trips for us this biking season, says the book has been a useful tool for this."
Best Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Travel Books
In this ultimate guide, true fans of Pittsburgh Steelers football will learn the origins of the team’s iconic logo, the best place to tailgate before kickoff, and how the legendary Steel Curtain defense got its nickname. Matt Loede has covered Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Football League for Fox Sports Radio, the Associated Press, and other stations around the country.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My daughter is an up and coming Steelers fan, so my wife and I told her she needs to know the history of the Steelers if she's going to be a true fan."
"This was a Christmas gift for my karate teacher in addition to some other fun Steelers products."
"Go to my "coffee table" for reference and good memories of my home town/team."
"Anything concerning the Steelers is great."
"Awesome book for not just Steeler fans."
Best Philadelphia Pennsylvania Travel Books
With pep talks, records, and Eagles lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Philadelphia fan should know. Chuck Carlson is an award-winning sportswriter whose work has been published in newspapers across the country.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Some fun facts about the Eagles."
"Bought as a gift...browsing showed tons of Old Eagles trivia...hope my kid likes it."
"I purchased this as a gift for a life-long Eagles fan."
"This and similar books on the Phillies, the Sixers and the Flyers will warm the cockles of the hears of Philly phans everywhere."
"Great read and very entertaining."
"We bought this for my father-in-law for Christmas who is from Philly and loves the Eagles, he was so thrilled and thoroughly enjoyed it."
"It's a cute idea but it was a little dull."
"Bought as a gift!"