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Best Easy Day Hikes Blue Ridge Parkway (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)

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This is an excellent book that has proven to be very helpful for us in planning day hikes along the Parkway. The descriptions, level of difficulty, maps, milepost numbers, distance, etc. are all accurate and just what you need to gauge what type of hike you wish to plan.

The historical facts and stories are an added interesting bonus.

I purchased this book with the intent of using it to plan day trips now that we live in the mountains of North Carolina. The real value of this book is in locating close hiking possibilities as well the descriptions of the hikes, elevation issues, and distances. I would not rely on the included maps, however. In the two hikes we've done, the Graveyard Fields and the Buck Spring Trail near the Pisgah Inn we found the maps to be a bit misleading and unreliable. Better carry some other maps as backup. With the Internet this is relatively easy.

Now that I have retired to Florida I don't get to climb anythig higher than Mt. Dora. I am looking forward to some f the great hikes discribed in this guide this summer.