Best Hikes With Children in the Catskills & Hudson River Valley [Paperback]

Cynthia C. Lewis (Author), Thomas J. Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1992

Hiking Tips, Maps and guide info for hiking trails with children

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898863228
• ISBN-13: 978-0898863222
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #922,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Non-local authors, non-local publisher., January 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Hikes With Children in the Catskills & Hudson River Valley (Paperback)

The Lewis's have quite a routine: move into an area where there is already a plethora of good guide books, borrow the research and trail information, change it round to suit their niche (hiking with kids), provide no acknowledgement or recognition of their sources, no bibliographic matter, no reference lists, and bingo, an "original" book. This formulaic approach to authorship is in many respects dishonest, infringing, and presumptuous. As for guidebooks in general, there are much better ones around.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Trespassing and Bushwhacking, July 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Hikes With Children in the Catskills & Hudson River Valley (Paperback)

This book led me up to Taconic State Park with my family. We followed the very detailed trail directions for a hike labeled as "Easy for Children". The trail was reasonably easy to follow at first, but led us through over a mile of land that was regularly posted as private property / no trespassing. But much worse, at the end, the trail simply disappeared. The book mentions that you may have to bushwhack for 100 feet at the end, but we were up to our waists in thorns, unable to see our destination and at least several hundred YARDS from where we needed to go. Definitely not easy to do when you are carrying a three-year-old. In retrospect, we should have verified the trail with the park rangers who would have told us that no such trail exists on park land. In the future, we will not trust this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but needs some updating, September 16, 2000

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"momstersinc" (NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Hikes With Children in the Catskills & Hudson River Valley (Paperback)

I've generally had good luck with the hikes described in this book, and have taken my children on several. As with other hiking books I've used, though, 8 years (from the time of publication) can make a big difference in the condition of trails, for better and/or worse. An update might be helpful. We've discovered some really cool places with this book (I like the emphasis on what kids would like about a trail, not just what the adults want to see) and the time and distance estimates are accurate. Nevertheless, I plan to avoid the Taconic Trail mentioned by the previous reviewer . . .