• National Geographic Road Atlas 2019: Adventure Edition [United States, Canada, Mexico] (National Geographic Recreation Atlas)

    National Geographic's Road Atlas: Adventure Edition, is the ideal companion for the next time you hit the road. Includes up-to-date road maps for all 50 U.S. States, plus Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Major cities and metropolitan areas are shown in detail with inset maps that include popular attractions, infrastructure and points-of-interest.Setting this atlas apart from all other road atlases are the inclusion of detailed maps and guidebook-like recommendations on the top 100 destinations for adventure, plus the top 24 most visited National Parks. An additional resources section provides ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0792289897
    • UPC: 749717201668
    • ASIN: 0792289897
    • ISBN: 0792289897
    • Brand: National Geographic
    • Size: One Size
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic Maps

  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah (Audubon Field Guide)

    The most comprehensive field guide available to the flora and fauna of the American Southwest--a portable, essential companion for visitors and residents alike--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.This compact volume contains:An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more;A complete overview of the southwestern region's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 067944680X
    • ASIN: 067944680X
    • ISBN: 067944680X
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

    From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named “The Emerald Mile” at the head of the Grand Canyon, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1439159866
    • ASIN: 1439159866
    • ISBN: 1439159866
    • Brand: Fedarko Kevin
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The National Parks: An American Legacy

    The National Parks: An American Legacy tells the story of the parks through the photography of Ian Shive and poignant essays by today’s leading naturalists, scientists, explorers, and artists.From the cascading waterfalls of Yosemite to the unique geothermal features of Yellowstone, the U.S. national parks are among the most breathtaking destinations in the world. Founded to preserve such natural beauty for posterity, the national parks represent one of America’s crowning achievements and international treasures. The National Parks: An American Legacy tells the story of the parks through t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1608874087
    • ASIN: 1608874087
    • ISBN: 1608874087
    • Brand: Perseus Lockbox
    • Manufacturer: Earth Aware Editions

  • Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting

    Off the Beaten Path spotlights over 1,000 of the United States' most overlooked must- see destinations.  Plan an unforgettable vacation with this best-selling travel book-a super-easy reference that shows you where to go, how to get there, and what you need to know before you begin your adventure.The best-selling Reader's Digest travel book has 40% new content including over 200 new sites, over 200 new full-color photographs, and all-new, up-to- date maps. Off the Beaten Path spotlights over 1,000 of the United States' most overlooked must- see destinations. In a state-by-state A-to-Z format,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0762107944
    • ASIN: 0762107944
    • ISBN: 0762107944
    • Brand: Reader s Digest Association
    • Manufacturer: Reader's Digest

  • Bicycling America's National Parks: Arizona and New Mexico: The Best Road and Trail Rides from the Grand Canyon to Carlsbad Caverns

    The first and only guide to bicycling the national parks and adjacent wild lands of Arizona and New Mexico. Bicycling is becoming an increasingly popular way to experience our national parks as many are restricting access to private vehicles. This complete adventure guide to the national parks of Arizona and New Mexico features more than 80 road and mountain bike rides through the parks' most spectacular natural areas. The outstanding variety of natural environments and terrain found in the Southwest, coupled with its rich cultural and historic heritage, make the national parks of Arizona and ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0881504815
    • ASIN: 0881504815
    • ISBN: 0881504815
    • Brand: Symantec
    • Manufacturer: Countryman Press

  • Scenic Driving New Mexico

    With over 30 carefully selected scenic drives, this book offers myriad ways to explore the Land of Enchantment. Pass through the foothills of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, stop in the ghost town of Madrid, or gaze at the immense caves of Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

    • ASIN: 0762760443
    • ASIN: 0762760443
    • ISBN: 0762760443
    • Brand: Brand: GPP Travel
    • Manufacturer: Globe Pequot Press

  • House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

    In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th century to create a civilization hailed as "the Las Vegas of its day," a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, and a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. By the 13th century, however, Chaco's vibrant community had disappeared without a trace. Was it drought? Pestilence? War? Forced migration, mass murder or su... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316067547
    • ASIN: 0316067547
    • ISBN: 0316067547
    • Brand: Craig Childs
    • Size: 0000
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • Dear Bob and Sue: Season 2

    More than a laugh out loud travel memoir, Dear Bob and Sue: Season 2 will bring to life the joy of discovery, the pure satisfaction of accomplishment, and the humor that comes with experiencing new places and activities. Season 2 is the follow-up to Dear Bob and Sue, a charming and sometimes irreverent chronicle of a middle-aged couple as they visit each of the country’s fifty-nine national parks, testing their mettle and stretching their endurance. In their second book of the series, follow Matt and Karen as they work their way around the western United States discovering some of our most b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0985358165
    • ASIN: 0985358165
    • ISBN: 0985358165
    • Manufacturer: Matt Smith

  • Pacific Northwest Camping Destinations: RV and Car Camping Destinations in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia (Camping Destinations series)

    The Pacific Northwest is a campers paradise. It offers everything that a vacation camper could desire: seashores, snow-capped mountains, old growth forests, visitor friendly cities, and national parks. In fact, the Pacific Northwest is one of the most popular RVing and tent camping destinations in North America. Pacific Northwest Camping Destinations is a travel guide for camping travelers, those traveling in an RV and those camping with a tent. It addresses the needs of the thousands of visitors to the Pacific Northwest who arrive in an RV or who vacation travel in their family car, spending ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0982310129
    • ASIN: 0982310129
    • ISBN: 0982310129
    • Manufacturer: Rolling Homes Press

  • Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

    *Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award*Winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award*Winner of the Reading the West Award for Nonfiction*Winner of the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition

    • ASIN: 0061859370
    • ASIN: 0061859370
    • ISBN: 0061859370
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

  • 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

    In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the US government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to fr... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0743250087
    • ASIN: 0743250087
    • ISBN: 0743250087
    • Brand: Conant, Jennet
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service

    Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year-long career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy. As a woman, she was working in a male-dominated agency; as an idealist, she attempted to champion the wise use of the national parks in a pragmatic political agency. Webb's career began in Alaska during President Gerald Ford's administration. She helped set up the mechanism that permitted Alaskan Natives to claim up to 2 million acres of federal land to preserve culturally significant areas. Following a dozen years of historic preservation work in Alaska a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0826331769
    • ASIN: 0826331769
    • ISBN: 0826331769
    • Brand: Brand: University of New Mexico Press
    • Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press

  • Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West

    The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into America's "land of opportunism." From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns throughout the West have been turned over to outsiders—and not just to those who visit and move on, but to those who stay and control.Although tourism has been a blessing for many, bringing economic and cultural prosperity to communities without obvious means of support or allowing towns on the brink of extinction to renew themselves; the costs on more intangible levels may be s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0700610561
    • ASIN: 0700610561
    • ISBN: 0700610561
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

  • The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges, 7th

    The definitive guide to memorable stays in America's most beautiful places.  Details and recommendations for each national park lodge by authors who have stayed in them.  From Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park to Cedar Pass Lodge in Badlands National Park, this book offers information on making reservations, selecting rooms, and the facilities that are available at each property.  The bible of national park lodges for travelers who appreciate rooms with a view.

    • ASIN: 0762773049
    • ASIN: 0762773049
    • ISBN: 0762773049
    • Manufacturer: GPP Travel

  • The National Parks : America's Best Idea

    This evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative--the companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series--delves into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 through to the most recent additions

    • UPC: 10830872
    • Model: 101963
    • Rating: 5.0

  • 10 best of everything national parks: 800 top pick - paperback: 9781426207341

    Covers national historical parks, monuments and battlefields, and scenic trails and features lists including the best lodges, hippest hikes, and most stunning star-gazing sites, as well as park-ranger anecdotes and travel

    • UPC: 14703430
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Best easy day hikes yellowstone national park - paperback: 9780762770069

    This guide details 30 of the best day hikes in

    • UPC: 15158411
    • Model: 106681

  • 50 best short hikes in utah's national parks: 9780899979120

    Utah's five national parks--Arches, Bryce, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion--hold some of the most awe-inspiring geology on the planet. Each park offers visitors the dramatic scenery that invites exploration and discovery.In 50 Best Short Hikes

    • UPC: 972434627

  • Hiking grand canyon national park : a guide to the best hiking adventures on the north and south rim: 9781493023004

    Fully revised and updated, Hiking Grand Canyon National Park provides first-hand descriptions and detailed maps for all of the park's developed trails as well as tips on safety, hiking with children, access, and services. This

    • UPC: 51651241

  • Best Easy Day Hikes: Best Easy Day Hikes Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks (Paperback)

    With hikes in Glacier and Waterton varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including

    • UPC: 335852073

  • Top Trails of Colorado and New Mexico : Includes Mesa Verde, Chaco, Colorado National Monument, Great Sand Dunes and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Parks

    Top Trails of Colorado and New Mexico covers 35 parks and 211 trails within southwest CO and northwest NM PLUS nearby parks in UT and AZ! This guide covers every area park and trail with

    • UPC: 54936216

  • New Mexico: A Guide to the State & National Parks - eBook

    Details of all the state and national parks. This describes them all, from the vast national parks to little-visited wilderness preserves. Facilities, hiking trails, fees, campgrounds, fishing, canoeing, history, nearby attractions, directions - everything you

    • UPC: 403563916

  • The Best of Grand Teton National Park : Wildlife, Wildflowers, Hikes, History & Scenic Drives in Mandarin

    This official guide answers all of your questions by presenting the park's best natural featres, activities, and sights as selected by the experts: residents, naturalists, and employees. Translated into Mandarin

    • UPC: 751956979

  • Best Short Hikes in Redwood National and State Parks

    * More than 60 short hikes in the Redwoods -- from half-hour to half-day -- with camping and park facilities information * Handy quick-guide for selecting hikes by difficulty, mileage and features (flowers, water, views,

    • UPC: 25944876

  • Top 15. Natural Wonders in New Mexico

    TOP 18. Amazing Camping Spots In New Mexico

    New Mexico's National Parks and Monuments