Grand Canyon, The Complete Guide: Grand Canyon National Park [Paperback]

James Kaiser (Author)

Book Description

Series: Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide | Publication Date: June 1, 2007

Filled with beautiful color photographs, this award-winning guidebook reveals the best of America's most famous national park. Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide equips travelers with detailed maps, travel tips, and extensive listings for lodging, camping, and sightseeing. From river rafting to mule rides, Grand Canyon is filled with adventures. But without careful planning, a trip there can be overwhelming. This guide divides Grand Canyon into sections--the South Rim, North Rim, Colorado River, and Havasu Canyon--and offers invaluable tips on enjoying the park's highlights while avoiding the crowds. The park's most popular hiking trails are covered in detail, and outfitters for backpacking, mule rides, and whitewater rafting are listed. Carefully researched chapters about the park's history, geology, and wildlife take readers behind the scenes, providing fascinating context for one of earth's greatest natural wonders.

Editorial Reviews

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"Hands down, these are the best travel guides I've ever read." --Wandering Educators

"Kaiser's stunning photography can be found on nearly every page, and even if you never read a single word of text, just viewing this book is mind-blowing." --Road Trip America --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

James Kaiser is an award-winning travel writer and photographer and author of Acadia: The Complete Guide, Joshua Tree: The Complete Guide, and Yosemite: The Complete Guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Destination Press; 3rd edition (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096789042X
• ISBN-13: 978-0967890425
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #562,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This guide is so good I threw out my other two!, August 15, 2007

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Max - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grand Canyon, The Complete Guide: Grand Canyon National Park (Paperback)

I recently bought this guide along with two other guides for my trip to the Grand Canyon. This one was so good that I literally threw out my other two guides three days into my trip. (Actually I gave them away to other vacationers to reuse and recycle but terminology aside, I still ended up getting rid of them to lessen the load in my backpack because they were nowhere near as thorough as The Complete Guide). Other books can't compare to the glossy color photographs, maps, trail recommendations, park background, flora and fauna highlights to look for and most importantly the insider's tips provided in this guide. It actually felt like the other two guides that I bought for my trip (and to be nice I won't name names but they were from big travel book publishers) were written by people sitting behind a computer in an office who hadn't been to the Grand Canyon in years, while this guide reads like the author is sitting on a rock perched over the Colorado River sharing his insight to friends. I loved this guide and can't recommend it enough. Besides a good backpack, hiking shoes and some food, it's all that you need for a great trip to the Grand Canyon. Buy this one book, skip everything else that's out there, and you'll be all set.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide" truly lives up to its title, May 5, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grand Canyon, The Complete Guide: Grand Canyon National Park (Paperback)

The Grand Canyon is universally acclaimed as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Now in a fully updated and beautifully illustrated third edition, James Kaiser's "Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide" is the ideal guide for novice visitors and a superbly informative reference for the seasoned visitor as well. A complete and 'user friendly' travel guide and planner for visiting the Grand Canyon, this ideal reference includes the Havasu Falls, topography maps, trail descriptions for both day trips and overnight hikes, mule rides, scenic flights, Colorado river trips, public campgrounds, historic lodges, the canyon's geology, native wildlife, history, and a great deal more. Compact and easily portable, "Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide" truly lives up to its title and is an invaluable addition to personal and community library travel guide collections -- as well as the supplemental reading lists of the armchair explorer!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely the most up-to-date Grand Canyon book, August 15, 2007

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J. LAMBERTO-EGAN "Windjammer22" (Emeryville, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grand Canyon, The Complete Guide: Grand Canyon National Park (Paperback)

Great guide! I got this book after my husband and I used James Kaiser's Joshua Tree book for our anniversary vacation there and had an amazing trip. We had been to the Grand Canyon once years ago and paid $72 for a guided "geography hike." This time we just used this guidebook and got twice as much information. We did three of the lesser-known trails recommended in the book and found some incredible views away from the crowds. We ended up planning most of our week there based on the author's suggestions, and it was a perfect trip. If you're going to the park for any length of time, I recommend this book 100%!