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Discover Acadia National Park: A Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, and Paddling [Paperback]

Jerry Monkman (Author), Marcy Monkman (Author)
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Sweeping mountain views, rugged ocean scenery, and abundant wildlife await hikers, bikers, and paddlers at Acadia National Park. Discover cobblestone beaches, glacial ponds, granite peaks, and ocean-side cliffs where the mountains meet the sea. Whether you're on foot, on a bike, or in a boat, this guide is perfect for first-time visitors and veteran explorers alike. From short one-hour excursions to day-long adventures, you'll get the inside scoop on where to go and what to do during your visit to this magnificent park. Covers all of Acadia National Park - Mount Desert Island, Isle au Haut, and Schoodic Peninsula. Detailed trip descriptions, trip times, distances, and difficulty levels - for 15 hikes, 12 bike trips, and 13 paddling and sea-kayak trips. Includes a full-color, pull out map of Acadia National Park, showing all hiking trails, carriage roads, park roads, and parking areas. This guide also includes descriptions for all the hiking trails in Acadia National Park, sidebars on natural and local history, trip highlights chart for easy planning and access, campground and lodging suggestions, local outfitters and resources, safety and gear tips, National Park Service information and guidelines for protecting the environment. (6 x 9, 296 pages, b&w photos, pull out map)

Product Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Appalachian Mountain Club Books; 1st edition (May 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1878239929
  • ISBN-13: 978-1878239921
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,605,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have, May 17, 2000
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This review is from: Discover Acadia National Park: A Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, and Paddling (Paperback)
Anyone who is going to Acadia National Park should have a copy of this well-written book. It gives great details of countless trips, whether hiking, biking, kayaking or canoeing- you won't get lost, you'll know exactly what to look for, and you'll enjoy the Monkmans' beautiful descriptions while you're at it. The trips are labeled as to their difficulty, how long they might take, etc. Don't go without it!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Detailed book on discovering Acadia, March 15, 2004
This review is from: Discover Acadia National Park: A Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, and Paddling (Paperback)
I've used this book on a couple of trips to Acadia. It's best feature is the detailed pull-out map in the back which shows all the major hiking trails. This is a great book to study BEFORE your trip. It has very detailed descriptions of hiking and biking trails and paddling and sea kayaking trips. It's great to pick out the activities you want to do, but this detailed nature makes it less useful on the trail though. It's too wordy and too bulky. (Take the map with you though!) It would be better if it had more pictures of the different areas. It's also missing mini-maps of each hiking or biking trail. Instead, you're left to pull out the map and try to follow along based on their descriptions. It would be great if this book were split into two, one for hiking and biking and one for paddling and sea kayaking, each in color with more pictures and terrain maps. Until then, there's still a lot of great info in this edition.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Only One You Need, June 14, 2000
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This review is from: Discover Acadia National Park: A Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, and Paddling (Paperback)
I agree with the previous reviews- this is the only book you'll need to have when going to Acadia National Park, and you'd be missing something great if you didn't have it. Even if you are only a beginner, you'll enjoy reading about the more advanced trips as well as the easy ones because the information is so well presented. The authors are also excellent nature photographers, so the readers are able to see the described trails and scenery as if they were looking through the lense of a camera- everthing is so beautifully presented. The book gives a lot of material that could be cut, dried, and boring, but it is anything but. Do yourself a favor, and buy this book before setting out - you'll enjoy your adventure so much more.
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