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Denali Guidebook to Hiking, Photography, and Camping in Denali National Park, Alaska

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This is the book the Park Service doesn't want you to read. It has all the secret trails in Denali National Park complete with detailed maps. I really enjoyed the geological facts and history to better help you understand why Denali is so unique and so beautiful. The author also has a nice website. [...]

This is an excellent book about hiking in Denali National Park in Alaska, where there are hardly any developed trails. Instead, hikers can just set out across the wilderness. This guide lists many hikes in the park with detailed maps, including relevant parts of topo maps. Even without a marked trail, we had no difficulty following the author's directions and map to complete an all-day loop hike with awe-inspiring views and wildlife encounters (Dal sheep, caribou). His descriptions of level of difficulty and length of each hike are very accurate, and the photos provided also help with orienting oneself in the landscape. One can almost use this book without needing to buy a separate topo map, because the topo maps for each hike are contained in the descriptions. A number of several-day hikes are included as well, for those interested in backpacking. We found the book critical to have for our visit, and would recommend it without reservation for anyone wanting to visit the park and do more than just sit on the tour bus all day.

Anyone who is interested in visiting Denali NP must own this book! It has many great hikes you can take, (some easy, some hard) but even if you are not intersted in hiking it offers great insight into how to enjoy the park to it's fullest. Where are the best photos of Mckinley possible and when is the best light? Where are the animals, and when are they at there best? What is the best guide book to wildflowers? These and many more questions are answered along with many you don't even know to ask. Going to Denali NP? BUY THIS BOOK!

I recently received this book to help me get an idea for planning my possible next summer trip to Denali. This Book i great. The first 38 pages have to deal with a lot of helpful information on shuttle buses in the park along with ways to get to the park if you fly into ancorage or fairbanks. They also deal with photography and places to spot wildlife. These pages also have a lot of helpful information that you could use to help plan your trip. The rest of the book deals with 35 dayhikes and 10 backpacking journeys in the park. I have only skimmed through some of the hikes and they are very helpful in giving you ideas of where to go in this huge trailless wilderness. All and all this book is going to save me a ton of time by in phonecalls to the park to get info and it will save time once you are in the park to figure out with the rangers of where to hike. In my opinion if you are planning on going to Denali to hike i would strongly reccomend this book in fact i feel it is a must have book.
Now i have the proper materials to go to Denali i hope my dreams become reality next summer.

I went into Denali for a week and compared to backpacking off-trail in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, Denali was by far the toughest. There are no trails and very few books about Denali but this one really helped me to know what to expect, where to hike and how to plan well for my trip. You just need to be extra prepared in Denali. We ended up with a grizzly only 30 meters away, it snowed, the rivers were so cold they made you feet hurt instantly and it was the best trip I've been on so far thanks in part to this book.

This is a great guide book to hiking and photography Denali, but if you are considering buying this book, look for the new edition. It is titled Denali National Park Guide to Hiking, Photography & Camping, or search on the Ike Waits.

This book has a lot of great suggestions for day and overnight hiking trips. Also, Waits gives lots of practical advice earned from his years of experience. He goes right down to which side of the bus is better to sit on to get pictures while heading into the park and where to sit heading out. I would highly recommend this book, except that the new edition has more of everything that makes this book great.