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Hiking Big Bend National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series)

Hiking Big Bend National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series)
By Laurence Parent

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Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive guide features forty-seven trails in Big Bend National Park.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #62135 in Books
  • Brand: Globe
  • Published on: 2005-06-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 208 pages

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From the Back Cover

For more than twenty-five years, FalconGuide® has set the standard for outdoor recreation guidebooks. Written by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, each guide invites you to experience the endless adventure and rugged beauty of the great outdoors.
Hiking Big Bend National Park features forty-seven of the finest trails in Texas-from short day hikes to backcountry treks. With this comprehensive guide, veteran hiker Laurence Parent provides all the information you need to get the most out of hiking this natural wonderland.
Look inside to find:
Hikes suited to every ability
Detailed trail descriptions
GPS-compatible trail maps and route profiles
Mile-by-mile directional cues
Difficulty ratings, trail contacts, fees/permits, and much more

About the Author

Laurence Parent is a freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel, and nature subjects. He has written twenty-one books, including seven FalconGuides. He lives in Wimberley, Texas.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, handy useful resource!5
My husband & I just returned from a fantastic trip to Big Bend National Park. We used this excellent, handy, easy-to-use book as our primary resource for deciding what hikes we were capable of taking in the park. The book proved very useful in showing numerous shorter, easier hikes that older people like us with foot and back problems could take as well as longer, harder trails for those who want them and are able. It also gave very interesting, accurate, readable, and useful descriptions of such matters as how to drive to the trailhead and whether parking is available there, some things (mainly scenery & geological features) one is likely to see on the trail, trail length, elevation gain, trail traffic etc., to allow use to decide which trails would most interest us. Further, it contains some useful black and white photos. And it provides some information about neighboring Big Bend Ranch State Park which we also at least drove through. Thanks in large part to this book, we were able to enjoy some the best hiking of our lives despite our current physical limitations. I only wish we had visited the park a decade ago or more when we could have done some of the more strenuous trails described as well. I would recommend this book for virtually anyone planning a visit to Big Bend.

Great tool for a fantastic vacation in Big Bend5
Gives a great synthesis of hikes of all levels in the park. Well-organized and thus very easy and quick to use.

Big Bend NP Hiking Guide5
It does the job it was purchased for, ie finding trails in Big Bend National Park