60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities [Paperback]

Tom Watson (Author)

Book Description

Series: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles | Publication Date: August 10, 2002

Hikes include a sortie through Fort Snelling, rambles through the Big Woods and open savannas of Sakatah Lake, and walks along sections of the Grand Round Parkway Trail System-an inner city trail revealing surprisingly rustic areas along the way.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...excellent and enthusiastically recommended planning resource for Twin Cities area hikers and outdoor enthusiasts looking for exercise, variety, fun. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch (The Midwest Book Review), January, 2003

From the Back Cover

No more excuses like "there's nowhere to go around here" or "the woods are too far from the city." With 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Twin Cities as your guide, you have dozens of places within an hour's drive where you can hike to your heart's content.60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Twin Cities blows the lid off the myth that you can't have a great hike in your own backyard. The Minneapolis-St. Paul area may be an ever-expanding metropolis, but there are still plenty of superb hiking options: short hikes, long hikes, hikes for kids, urban hikes, wildlife hikes, historic hikes, and many others.Whether you live in Minneapolis, St. Paul, or somewhere nearby, this guide provides the information necessary to choose the perfect day hike, including maps, directions, trail lengths, hiking times, and a wealth of detail about the trails. So lace up those boots, sling on that pack, and hit the trail! (6 x 9, 256 pages, b&w photos, maps)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (August 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897324110
• ISBN-13: 978-0897324113
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,399,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #54 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Minnesota

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Twin Cities area hikers and outdoor enthusiasts, January 10, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities (Paperback)

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities by outdoor enthusiast, hiker, photographer, bird-watcher, and canoeist Tom Watson is a detailed and thoroughly "user friendly" guide to sixty different scenic hikes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota, including wildlife hikes, historic hikes, urban hikes and even hikes for kids. Packed from cover to cover with maps, information about local resources, trail guides and more, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles is an excellent and enthusiastically recommended planning resource for Twin Cities area hikers and outdoor enthusiasts looking for exercise, variety, and fun.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great hikes, so close, so many, December 12, 2002

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Allan Thomas "Allan T" (Owatonna, MNUnited States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities (Paperback)

I knew there were a lot of parks around the cities but this book takes each one with a good trail system and shares the walk with the reader...easy to follow and easy to review to decide which hikes to take. Also like the fact that the author is a naturalist and shares facts and tidbits about the things found along the hike. This is a good birthday or Christmas gift for anyone who is even a casual hiker.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something for Everyone, December 20, 2002

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Lynn C. Roverud (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Twin Cities (Paperback)

This book is great for visitors to the Twin Cities or long-time residents. Excellent directions and maps and useful and accurate information about the difficulty of the trail, trail length and access, plus special elements of interest. The book reads as though Tom is right there with you. One item that I find especially unique is that this book also presents trails that are accessible to people in wheelchairs or who have physical limitations that would preclude them from enjoying most areas of hiking and yet they can still get the feeling of being in the woods and a chance to enjoy the great outdoors and there are also hikes for the more experienced hiker. Excellent variety of hiking trails for all, plus a few areas that I did not know about and I live in the Twin Cities! Would make an excellent gift!