Frommer's Yosemite & Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks [Paperback]

Don Laine (Author), Barbara Laine (Author)

Book Description

Series: Park Guides | Publication Date: April 26, 2002

Your Complete Guide to Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, with:

• Spectacular natural wonders, from majestic Yosemite Falls to Kings Canyon's towering sequoias
• Great places to stay, from luxury park lodges to family-friendly motels-plus a campground guide for each park
• A fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot and identify local wildlife, birds, trees, wildflowers, and more
• Descriptions of the best hikes, from easy wilderness strolls and ranger-led walks to overnight backcountry adventures
• Where to eat and stock up on supplies-both in the parks and in the gateway towns
• Detailed, accurate park and trail maps

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Frommer's Puts the Parks in Your Pocket. All the up-to-date practical information and candid insider advice you need to have the perfect park vacation...in an easy-to-carry size?and at an unbeatable price!

Your Complete Guide to Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, with:

• Spectacular natural wonders, from majestic Yosemite Falls to Kings Canyon's towering sequoias
• Great places to stay, from luxury park lodges to family-friendly motels?plus a complete campground guide for each park
• A fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot and identify local wildlife, birds, trees, wildflowers, and more
• Descriptions of the best hikes, from easy wilderness strolls and ranger-led walks to overnight backcountry adventures
• Where to eat and stock up on supplies?both in the parks and in the gateway towns
• Detailed, accurate park and trail maps

About the Author

About the Authors
Don and Barbara Laine have written about and traveled extensively throughout the West and Southwest. They are the authors of Frommer's Utah; Frommer's Colorado; Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs; Frommer's Rocky Mountain National Park; and Frommer's Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks and are contributors to Frommer's National Parks of the American West and Frommer's USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 3 edition (April 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076456577X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764565779
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,282,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born and raised in Colorado, Eric Peterson started traveling as a newborn child on his way back from the hospital. Numerous family road trips ensued, often with comedic effect.

Eric started writing when he was four, covering such stories as an anthropomorphic hammer fighting similarly humanoid nails and a bipedal polka-dotted gator-like creature named Erg.

He first got paid to write in his early twenties when he landed a freelance gig on a Frommer's book. That was 1995. As of 2010, Eric has written dozens of travel guides, mostly Frommer's titles, as well as his own Ramble Guides series of books: Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A. (2006), Ramble Colorado (2008), Ramble California (2009), and Ramble Texas (2010).

Eric has also written for numerous magazines and newspapers during his career, including the Denver Post, Westword, the New York Daily News, United Hemispheres, Delta Sky, ColoradoBiz, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, and Nintendo Power. Check out www.rambleguides.com for more of all things Eric Peterson.

Customer Reviews

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well-organized, succinct and useful. Not comprehensive., December 30, 2005

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This review is from: Frommer's Yosemite & Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks (Paperback)

This guide is very succinct, affordable, and accessible. It's not at all comprehensive, yet is still one of the most useful guides to the region due to its brevity and organziation. Plus it covers both Sequoia/Kings Canyon and Yosemite.

Planning: A nice job is done. There is a lot of detail on roads into the parks and hotels, information lacking in the more specialized hiking guides. It covers most of the big park highlights you don't want to miss if you're only visiting the region once or twice. This is not the sort of guide that will tell you where to find solitude and remote regions. It is also one of the best guides to have if you don't want to rough it the entire trip. I like to space long backpacking treks with a visit to a nice restaurant-this guide offers a lot of variety on this end. The same goes for hotels, if you're not into backpacking or looking for a place just after getting on/off a plane.

Hiking Trip Descriptions: Pretty minimal. This book spotlights the more popular trails but does a fairly decent job of highlighting don't miss items.

Maps: Non-topographic but highly readable. The printing is crisp and highly readable. Useful for planning short day trips.

Overall this is a pretty useful guide. As the price is great you can easily buy this to supplement a more specialized hiking guide and map. Note that Frommer seems to put out a new edition every couple of years. I don't think very much could have changed, so an older edition will do just fine.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars you get what you pay for, March 29, 2007

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Christian G. Garcia (São Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (Park Guides) (Paperback)

I wish this guide had colorful maps. I originally bought it looking for information about hiking and trekking activities in the Parks and was somewhat disappointed by the monochromatic maps with poor information about trail distance or duration.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome little book, June 1, 2009

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L. Keck (Apex, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Yosemite & Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks (Paperback)

Awesome little book that summarizes the highlights of Yosemite, Sequoia, and King's Canyon National parks. Easily fits into a day hike pack. Info. about "must dos", trails, lodging, eats, and drive times.