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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Discover USA's Best National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch the country's 'first sunrise' from the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia, take the drive of your life on the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier, and climb the otherworldly rocks of Joshua Tree; all with your trusted travel companion. Discover USA's best national natural treasures and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Discover USA's Best National Parks:
- Full-color maps and images throughout
- Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots and being safe and responsible
- Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices, transit tips, emergency information, park seasonality, and hiking trail junctions, viewpoints, landscapes, elevations, distances, difficulty levels, durations
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, camping, sight-seeing, tours, activities, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Contextual insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - history, geology, wildlife, conservation
- Over 20 park maps
- Useful features - including Detours, Family Travel, and Month-by-Month (seasonality and activities calendar)
- Coverage of Acadia, Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains & Shenandoah, Joshua Tree & Death Valley, Olympic & Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone & Grand Teton, Yosemite, Zion & Bryce Canyon, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Discover USA's Best National Parks, our easy-to-use guide, is perfect for those seeking the most popular natural attractions the USA has to offer. Filled with inspiring and colorful photos, this guide focuses on the best of the best.
- Looking for more focused coverage on America's top four national parks? Check outLonely Planet's Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks guide, Grand Canyon National Park guide, Yosemite, Sequoia & King's Canyon National Parks guide, and Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks guide for a comprehensive look at all that each park has to offer.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Danny, Palmerlee, Glenda Bendure, Ned Friary, Adam Karlin, Emily Matchar, and Brendan Sainsbury.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel content company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet enables curious travelers to experience the world and get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
- Sales Rank: #826654 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.76" h x .79" w x 5.04" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 472 pages
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Okay as a Secondary Reference
By emmejay
This guidebook details the sixteen "best" (see below) USA National Parks and provides brief mentions of an additional eight. For each, there are suggested itineraries of the top things to see and do (emphasizing hiking/biking/kayaking), plus food and lodging (emphasizing campgrounds). The book is well organized and the text is pleasantly laid out and beautifully complemented by well-captioned color photos.
So that's 24 parks (not "27" as noted on the cover), with "best" stated as "most iconic" and (unstated) as having the most activities and visitor services. It's only half of all USA National Parks -- a glaring omission of wonders like the Badlands or Petrified Forest, and Carlsbad Caverns or Mammoth Caves, and without even a list of the remaining parks. But my biggest frustration is this guide's lack of context -- not enough background to convey what's iconic about some parks and not enough landmarks to orient myself in some maps. Even some text is confounding, for example the two-page mention of Capitol Reef National Park never identifies its location by state or a recognizable city.
I recommend this guide only as a secondary reference -- *after* you've decided what park you want to visit, peruse its listings and compare its ratings/recommendations with those of other guidebooks.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Glitzy photographs and practical info about motels, phone numbers, tour guides, and restaurants
By Tom Brody
DISCOVER USA'S BEST NATIONAL PARKS by Palmerlee, Bendure, Karlin, Matchar, and Sainsbury, is a 472 page guidebook in the LONELY PLANET series. This book is printed on bright semi-glossy paper, and there is a color photograph or color map on every other page. Some of the photos are by famous photographers, e.g., David Muench, and the maps are large and easy to read. The book has twelve chapters, each title referring to a national park in the United States:
(1) ACADIA;
(2) EVERGLADES;
(3) GLACIER;
(4 GRAND CANYON;
(5) GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS;
(6) JOSHUA TREE & DEATH VALLEY;
(7) OLYMPIC & MOUNT RAINIER;
(8) ROCKY MOUNTAIN;
(9) YELLOWSTONE & GRAND TETONS;
(10) YOSEMITE;
(11) ZION & BRYCE; and
(12) "Best of the Rest."
The following concerns the last of the chapters, Chapter 12. Chapter 12 provides token information about national parks that did not rate their own chapter in Chapters 1-11. The national parks described in Chapter 1 are: Arches, Big Bend, Capitol Reef, Denali, Haleakala, Hawaii volcanos, and Sequoia & Kings Canyon. CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK was largely overlooked in this guidebook, and it only gets a 1/2-page blurb on page 397. Other national parks, such as REDWOODS NATIONAL PARK and CONGAREE SWAMP NATIONAL PARK are not even mentioned in this book. But these two omissions are not a problem. I have been to Redwood Nat'l. Park and Congaree Swamp Nat'l. Park. I've been to Congaree Nat'l. Park on five occasions. In my opinion, these two parks are not much better than a typical State Park. I have the following gripe regarding the organization and priorities of this book. ARCHES NATIONAL PARK is arguably more dramatic than most of the other national parks. But Arches National Park only gets two pages (pages 400-401). Here is another comment regarding priorities. JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK gets extensive coverage in this book. I have been to Joshua Tree Nat'l. Park on ten occasions. But in my opinion, this park does not in any way rank with most of the other national parks. Joshua Tree Nat'l. Park has only a small section with pretty stone formations -- this is the corner of the park that includes Hidden Valley, Spatula Rock, Split Rock trail, and Jumbo Rocks. These stone formations are obelisks that are about 20 feet high. Joshua Tree Nat'l. Park also huge beige-colored granite cliffs, surrounded by tumbled arrays of huge smooth-surfaced boulders, where the entire collection of cliffs and boulders resembles a medieval stone castle. These granite cliffs are used on a daily basis by mountain climbers. But about 80% of Joshua Tree Nat'l. Park consists of areas that are totally flat, and covered with scraggly bushes and an occasional small cactus. At any rate, my opinion is that Arches National Park is infinitely more worthy of coverage, in this book, than Joshua Tree National Park.
This book does include a few NATIONAL MONUMENTS, e.g., Cedar Breaks National Monument (page 376) and Grand Staircase (page 384). But a glaring omission from this guidebook is NATURAL BRIDGES NATIONAL MONUMENT. In my opinion, Natural Bridges National Monument contains some of the most spectacular areas on the planet earth (see, e.g., Owachomo Natural Bridge; Sipapu Bridge; and Kachina Bridge). In this respect (the amazing natural bridges), most of our national parks cannot even pretend to compete with Natural Bridges National Monument.
PHOTOGRAPHS. Many of the color photos have artistic merit, and these include Mather Point at Grand Canyon by Richard Janson (pages 93-94); St. Mary Lake at Glacier Nat'l. Park by Kraig Lieb (pages 64-65); Otter Cliffs at Acadia Nat'l. Park by Eddie Brady (pages 28-29); Toroweep Overlook at Grand Canyon by Witold Skrypczak (page 136); Laural Falls at Great Smoky Mountains by David Muench (page 152); Old Fall River in Rocky Mt. Nat'l. Park by Richard Cummins (p. 255); Cathedral Lake at Yosemite by Douglas Steakley (page 309); El Capitan at Yosemite by Douglas Steakley (p. 316); Autumn at Zion by Rob Blakers (p. 377); Highline Trail at Glacier Nat'l. Park by Shannon Nace (pages 415-416). These particular photos are of the highest artistic merit. Unfortunately, the names of these and other photographers are almost too small to read without a magnifying glass. In my opinion, this sort of treatment is very rude. These photographers deserve to have their names being printed in a decent-sized font (not as microscopic specks).
EXAMPLE OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK (pages 28-47). This chapter provides us with a list of hiking trails, if you have only a 2-day stay, e.g., Jordan Pond Trail, and trails if you plan a 4-day stay, e.g., Acadia Mountain Trail. The next few pages provide phone numbers and operating hours, and driving directions to the best spots. For example, we learn about SCHOODIC POINT LOOP ROAD (7.2 miles long). Info is given on whale watching cruises, carriage rides, and restaurants, e.g., we read that McKAY'S serves crab cakes, chick, and fish & chips (pages 34-35). A large, easy-to-read 3-color map is splashed over pages 34-35. This map reveals that Acadia Nat'l. Park has many islands, e.g., GREAT CRANBERRY ISLAND, BALD PORCUPINE ISLAND, and GRENING ISLAND.
EXAMPLE OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK (page 64-91). The other chapters following an organizatin similar to that found in the ACADIA NATIONAL PARK chapter. We learn about hiking trails for those planning a 2-day stay, e.g., HIGHLINE TRAIL (7.6 miles), and TRAIL OF THE CEDARS (0.8 miles). For those planning a 4-day stay, this chapter recommends TWO MEDICINE VALLEY and WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK. The next several pages of this chapter detail milestones found along the stunning GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD. These amazing chunks of scenery and related milestones include, e.g., St. Mary Lake, Lake McDonald Valley, Apgar Village (this village has lodges, restaurants, and gift shop), Bird Woman falls (found at mile 27 of Going-To-The-Sun Road), Jackson Glacier Overlook (located at mile 36 of G.T.T.S. Road), Avalanche Lake Trail (4 miles round trip), and Virginia Falls (7 miles round trip). Pages 78-80 of the chapter on GLACIER NAT'L. PARK cover extra features of this park, e.g., boat cruises, fishing information (licenses, catch limit), horse rentals, evening ranger talks, snow skiing tour guides, and such. Pages 81-91 of this chapter disclose the essentials, i.e., campgrounds, lodges, motels, cafes, and restaurants.
CONCLUSION. Overall, the book goes a long way to provide ideas and assurance that a vacation will be a success. Even if one is not contemplating a vacation, the book is a beautiful piece of work. Hopefully, the next edition of this book will have better coverage of ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, with photograph of three or four of the most famous of the arches found in this park.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
An overview of 16 national parks
By C. MacPhail
It's good for deciding which parks you want to visit. Once deciding that, I would look for books and Web sites with more depth. And not carry around this whole book if I was only using 10% of it.
There is also material that you might consider filler. One section seems devoted to helping foreign visitors with bland advice about safety, electrical outlets, lightning, mosquitoes, etc. Then there is 7 blank pages "for notes."
7 parks are covered in a chapter near the end @ less than 2 pages per park (no maps). The cover claims 27 parks covered, but I only found 16 + these 7.
There is one map for each of the 16 main parks, with not as much detail as you would like for hiking.
I think even 3 stars is generous.
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