60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Antonio and Austin: Including the Hill Country [Paperback]

Tom Taylor (Author), Johnny Molloy (Author)

Book Description

Series: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles | Publication Date: December 10, 2003

Packed with valuable tips and information, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Austin and San Antonio gives you everything you need to get started. First, learn about the area's hiking possibilities and the author's opinions about the best places to go. Then, consult the author's recommendations for special interest hikes--wildlife hikes, historic hikes, hikes for families, and more. Each hike profile provides essential details on length, hiking time, difficulty, solitude, and more. The author also includes personal notes on the hike, a detailed hike map, and clear directions to the trailhead.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...a guidebook for all you fitness walkers who are deathly bored with trekking around the neighborhood yet again. -- Health/Fitness, San Antonio Express-News, January 5, 2004

...superior guidebook...include(s) maps, directions, descriptions, and key at-a-glance information...point(s) out historical points of interest. -- Sally Dooley, Review of Texas Books, Spring 2005

...the best book I've seen for hiking in Austin and the Hill Country. Key information, directions, maps are great. -- Hill Country Outdoors Newsletter, January, 2004

From the Back Cover

It's time to take a hike! No more excuses like "there's nowhere to go around here," "the woods are too far from the city," or "I don't have time to wander the trails." With 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: San Antonio & Austin as your guide, you have dozens of places to hike to your heart's content, and most within an hour's drive or less. 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: San Antonio & Austin blows the lid off the myth that you can't have a great hike close to home. The San Antonio/Austin area may be ever-expanding, but there are still plenty of super hiking options: short hikes, long hikes, hikes for kids, rural hikes, wildlife hikes, historic hikes, and many others.
Inside you will find: trail descriptions that allow you to access each trail before you hike it; GPS-based trail maps that provide you with accurate trail information; trail profiles to help you visualize altitude gain and loss; directions to the trailheads.
Whether you live in San Antonio, Austin or the Hill Country, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: San Antonio & Austin provides the information necessary for you to choose the perfect day hike, as well as maps, directions, trail lengths, hiking times, highlights, and a wealth of details about the trail itself. So lace up those boots, sling that daypack, and hit the trail!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (December 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897325338
• ISBN-13: 978-0897325332
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,334,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Austin than San Antonio, October 8, 2006

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lhb (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Antonio and Austin: Including the Hill Country (Paperback)

Excellent book, very descriptive but there are more Austin trails than SA trails. Some of the trails in this book have become our faves and we would never have found them without the book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hiking in Austin, October 18, 2005

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Michael H. Reitzel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Antonio and Austin: Including the Hill Country (Paperback)

This is a good basic book for finding the public hiking trails that are on the beaten path. It is very useful to find what is publically available. It isn't for finding those paths that are hard to find.

I do recommend it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, January 17, 2009

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A. Wesseling - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Antonio and Austin: Includes the Hill Country (Paperback)

I bought this book for my sister for Christmas because she had just recently moved to the Austin area. She loves the it and has already been on some of the hikes and says that the descriptions and information about each hiking trial is very helpful and having this book actually helps motivate you to get out there and do the hikes.