Part of a multi-award winning series, Backcountry Adventures: Northern California provides information and directions to 2,653 miles of SUV trails throughout the glorious California backcountry while teaching minimal environmental impact travel. The book gives detailed, step-by-step route directions for 152 scenic drives, rated from easy to challenging that take you from the coastal redwood forests to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. In addition to the enormously detailed trail information, there are hundreds of photos of frontier towns, historic mining operations, old railroad routes, wildflowers, and native animals. Trail history is brought to life through the accounts of Spanish missionaries who first settled the coastal regions of Northern California; eager prospectors looking to cash in during California’s gold rush; and legends of lost mines still hidden in the state’s expansive backcountry. Every trail includes maps, ratings for degree of difficulty and scenic beauty, driving times, distances, and GPS coordinates. The book appeals to virtually everyone who loves the outdoors: campers, anglers, hikers, mountain bikers, snowmobilers, amateur prospectors, sightseers, GPS owners, wildlife seekers, and more.
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Don't leave home without it. -- Truck Trend
This massive piece of research is one terrific reference book...The $34.95 book is worth every penny. -- Los Angeles Daily News
To say we'd strongly recommend this book is an understatement. -- Auto Week
This massive piece of research is one terrific reference book...The $34.95 book is worth every penny. -- Los Angeles Daily News
To say we'd strongly recommend this book is an understatement. -- Auto Week
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Swagman Publishing has 50+ guidebooks on recreation and outdoor activities. Their best-selling, award-winning, 4-color series is entitled Backcountry Adventures. Backcountry Adventures is an expanding series currently consisting of travel books on Northern California, Southern California, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Each book contains maps and detailed directions to hundreds of scenic drives, with information on the history of ghost towns, plant and animal identification, and regional contact information.
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Best Guidebook...Hands Down!,
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This review is from: Backcountry Adventures: Northern California (Paperback)
We were wondering if the book could be worth it but we thought we'd give it a try. WOW! This book has everything, I mean EVERYTHING you could want to know as you explore the state (directions, lots of photos, interesting history, info about animals and plants w/pics, rating systems, and GPS coordinates)!!Love this book. I hope that I can collect the rest of the titles about the other states. My book was fun to take along on the vacation drive but I could see just sitting and reading through it at home!
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I bought this book thinking that the inside would be black and white text explanations saying turn left here, go right there. How shocked I was to find out that the whole text is full of glossy pages in full color. This book has it all...history, GPS coordinates, turn-by-turn instructions for the trails, a nature guide, even cross references with other books and software!
This book has become a permanent fixture in my SUV! There is nothing else out there than even compares!
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WOW this was really helpful for giving us something fun to do with the new Jeep Rubicon. Ratings are a great guide. Mostly the trails are pretty sedate - but there are are quite a few hard ones listed to keep the rest of us happy. The history of the area is also interesting. The GPS coordinates are a huge bonus, better than wandering around wondering if you are allowed to be on this trail or not. Definately recommend - it worth the money in savings on wasted fuel - and driver/navigator harmony ;-)
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"If you plan to do off-highway touring, all of these considerations are important, whether you are evaluating the capabilities of your current SUV or looking to buy one; each is considered in detail in this chapter." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zero trip meter, seasonal closure gate, trail commences, auto tour stop, shelf road, historic mining operations, graded road, upper center right, lower center right, unmarked track, graded dirt road, ishi wilderness, formed trail, trail finishes, wash crossings, cattle guard, ignoring turns, cinder pit, trail crosses road, cross over creek, climbing access, small paved road, route directions, gold lake, left goes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern California, North Coast, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco, Map References, California Road, Recreation Atlas, Special Attractions, North Fork, Sierra National Forest, Lake Tahoe, Creek Trail, Hat Creek, Inyo National Forest, Pacific Crest Trail, Henness Pass Road, Modoc National Forest, Yosemite National Park, Klamath River, North Bloomfield, Yosemite Valley, Lassen National Forest, Sierra Buttes, Central Pacific, Shaver Lake New!
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"If you plan to do off-highway touring, all of these considerations are important, whether you are evaluating the capabilities of your current SUV or looking to buy one; each is considered in detail in this chapter." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zero trip meter, seasonal closure gate, trail commences, auto tour stop, shelf road, historic mining operations, graded road, upper center right, lower center right, unmarked track, graded dirt road, ishi wilderness, formed trail, trail finishes, wash crossings, cattle guard, ignoring turns, cinder pit, trail crosses road, cross over creek, climbing access, small paved road, route directions, gold lake, left goes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern California, North Coast, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco, Map References, California Road, Recreation Atlas, Special Attractions, North Fork, Sierra National Forest, Lake Tahoe, Creek Trail, Hat Creek, Inyo National Forest, Pacific Crest Trail, Henness Pass Road, Modoc National Forest, Yosemite National Park, Klamath River, North Bloomfield, Yosemite Valley, Lassen National Forest, Sierra Buttes, Central Pacific, Shaver Lake New!
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- Emigrant Trails West by Dever & Henen Helfrich in Back Matter
- California Mission Days by Bauer in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Volume IV-California by Donald B Robertson in Back Matter
- Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins in Back Matter
- 4 Wheeler's Guide to the Rubicon Trail by William C. Teie in Back Matter
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