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The Adirondack Book, 3rd Edition: A Complete Guide

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We just visited the Adirondacks for the first time, and without this guide, we probably would have wasted a lot of time and money. We relied on the lodging information and were quite pleased. We also found the restaurant information to be highly accurate. We planned our entire trip around the information in the guide. However, we offer two caveats: there are NO driving directions, so some places were impossible to find without driving randomly or finding a telephone and calling. Also, the organization of the book requires you to flip pages constantly to find all of the sites in a particular place (e.g., what to see and do, where to shop, where to eat in Old Forge). I have a suggestion to the author: Add an index by place!

Some of us travel vicariously through all the guidebooks we buy-my shelves are packed with books about places I'd love to see, someday. Others actually get a chance to see the places that they've been reading about. So it was with the Adirondacks. I read about the Adirondack Park in an earlier edition of The Adirondack Book borrowed from a friend, thought that I'd love to explore, but just didn't get around to it right away. Imagine my surprise when I did get to the Adirondacks and found that the witty descriptions and interesting background in this version of the guide proved true and useful. The many black and white pictures were good information, too; wish that more travel books showed restaurants, shops, museums and even bathrooms. I heartily recommend this one!

I've bought every edition of The Adirondack Book, and the third one is the best. Restaurant and lodging reviews are bang on, and the list of things to do, from mini golf to mountain climbing is awesome. Its worth the price just for basic info like hundreds of phone numbers and web addresses, and if you want to know when and where to find antiques and crafts.

Accept no substitutes. This was the first guidebook published on the Adirondacks with info on restaurants, lodgings, culture, shopping, and it's still the best. Great photos of places to stay and visit.