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Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains (Longstreet Highlands Innactive Series)

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Simply the best guide to the Georgia Mountains ever produced, the Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains is the essential reference for exploring the wonders of North Georgia. Including detailed information on hiking, camping, fishing, canoeing, horseback riding, and mountain biking-- this book has it all. The easy to understand maps are keyed by figure number to the text, so that it is simple to find what is of interest to you. This book also includes interesting facts on the natural history, flora and fauna of the mountains, which give the reader a greater understanding of the forces that created the scenic wonders of the Georgia mountains.

As a young man, it was Fred brown's Journal that introduced me to the north Georgia mountains. This book is a compendium of that magazine (its been out of print since the late 70's, I think) and more, richly researched and distributed by area. That is, the book is divided into areas of north Georgia, making it easy to find things to do near you.

The major problem with the book is that it is sometimes vague as to "how to get there." A generic map gets you within a quarter mile or so, but the exact location of the trailhead may not be given, leading a hiker to wander along a road looking for evidence. Don't get me wrong, I love this book. It has more trails than Homan's Hiking Trails of North Georgia and Pfister's Hiking Georgia and many of Brown's are different from the two previously mentioned books.

If you love to canoe, this is a great addition to your library. Fred is right on the money in many cases. For example, when talking about the Chattahoochee River he gives two great put-ins that are under-used and one take out that should be avoided and he is dead on with all three. He also gives info on canoeing the Toccoa, Chattooga and Etowah Rivers, but don't run the Chattooga based solely on his description. There is a more detailed book available by Brian Boyd.

Occasionally Fred bends the political boundaries of the state, briefly going into North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama, but the relatively small ventures outside the state make sense because the areas are geophysically related. For example, why cover the fifty miles of Lookout Mountain in Georgia and leave out the last mile overlooking Chattanooga, Tennessee? Besides, they have some great hiking there.

i live in the ga. mountains and i wish i had bought this book years ago.
great source of info.

The quality of this book was not as was advertised. I have bought many used books on line through Amazon and they have arrived in the condition that they were described and I have been completely satisfied. This book, through this dealer, was not. It was described as Very Good, but arrived in a VERY USED condition. I was completely dissatisfied and will never purchase from this dealer again.